Blandings: Long Island

Wodehouse lived on Long Island, on and off, for a large part of his life. It's not surprising that he used it for as a setting for many books and stories. Real places are indicated; those not such are probably invented. See also the separate sketch map.

Babylon: A real place, mentioned in The Adventures of Sally.
Bellport: 1. A real place, mentioned in Summer Moonshine.; 2. Wodehouse lived in Bellport from after his marriage in September 1914 to February 1918.
Belmont Park: A real racecourse mentioned in Ways to Get a Gal.
Bensonburg: Home of the Trent sisters' Tuttle's Lane chicken farm in French Leave. From its position, on the shore of the Great South Bay, its name is a disguise for Remsenburg, where PG was living at the time the book was written.
Brookport: It does not appear on a Long Island map but the areas Brookhaven and Bellport are adjacent and fit with the location outlined. 'A summer place. It lives, like the mosquitoes that infest it, entirely on its summer visitors.' Morrisville is 10 miles away but is also fake, the real Morrisville, NY, being near Syracuse.; 1. Site of Flack's farm and the Wetherbys' summer house in Uneasy Money.; 2. Appears briefly in The Indiscretions of Archie, with Daniel Brewster taking a summer house there.; 3. Appears briefly in Jill the Reckless when the heroine spends a couple of weeks there. (Described as being inside the Great South Bay lagoon behind Fire Island.); 4. Mentioned as the home of Fanny (and Joe) Lehman in Barmy in Wonderland.
Coney Island: A group of amusement parks at the south-west corner of Long Island. Mentioned in A Gentleman of Leisure, Company for Henry and many others.
Easthampton: 1. Mentioned as where Joss Weatherby saved J. B. Duff from drowning in Quick Service.; 2. Mentioned by Henry Weems in French Leave as his destination.; 3. PG spent a summer in a rented house here in 1923.
East Moriches: A real area, mentioned in Uneasy Money.
Far Rockaway: 1. The Abrahams family live there in The Adventures of Sally.; 2. Mentioned as frequented by Jack McClure in Barmy in Wonderland.
Flushing: Mentioned as the source of the second vicar in The Small Bachelor.
Garden City: Golf Course. A real club in Nassau County where Sally Smith achieved a six handicap in Doctor Sally. PG's US publishers Doubleday, Doran and Co. were based in Garden City. Also mentioned in the US edition of The Girl in the Boat.
Goldenville: Home of Bradbury Fisher and the Goldenville Golf Links in High Stakes and Keeping in with Vosper. (Not on my Long Island map.)
Great Neck: 1. US home of Freddie Threepwood and his wife in Life with Freddie. His house is built near to what had been the Sound View Golf Course until developers took it over.; 2. Sound View Golf Course. Also known as the Great Neck Golf and Country Club, it covered 177 acres west of Bay View Avenue and south of Cedar Drive. It is said to be the real life setting of the Oldest Member golfing stories. (Yours, Plum); 3. Pauline Petite, the movie star, took a house there in Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best.; 4. Katherine Valentine comes from there. (Big Money); 5. G. Ellery Cobbold lives there in Spring Fever.; 6. Wodehouse lived at Allandale Avenue in 1918 (rented accommodation) and 17 Beverley Road in 1923-4, staying with his friend Guy Bolton.
Hempstead: Contains the summer home of the Waddingtons in The Small Bachelor. A real area in Nassau/Queens.
Islip: A real town, mentioned in Uneasy Money.
Jamaica: A real part of Long Island, in Queen's County at the New York end. Mentioned in Uneasy Money.
King's Point: A real part of Great Neck (see above). Home of Hermione Brimble in Barmy in Wonderland.
Long Beach: Mentioned as frequented by Jack McClure in Barmy in Wonderland. A resort area.
Long Island City: The part nearest to Manhattan, strictly part of the city of New York. Home to Freddie Threepwood (in Full Moon) before moving to Great Neck.
Meadowhampton: Where J. J. Bunyan had his summer home in Something Fishy. On the coast. (Not on my Long Island map.)
Patchogue: A real place, mentioned in The Adventures of Sally.
Piping Rock: A real area in the north of Nassau County, mentioned in Big Money and Thank You, Jeeves.
Sands Point: A real area, at the tip of the next promontory east of Great Neck. Mentioned as the home of Josiah Flack in Feet of Clay.
Southampton: PG played golf on the National Links and died in Southampton hospital. Mentioned in Big Money as a resort.
Speonk: A real place, mentioned in The Small Bachelor.
Squashy Hollow Golf Club: About 5 miles from Goldenville, in Keeping in with Vosper. The Paradise City golf club is nearby (Sleepy Time). From the description in the preface to The Heart of a Goof, Squashy Hollow GC is based on the National Links, Southampton, LI.
Westbury: In Nassau county. Contains the home of Cooley Paradene which boasts a lake, trees and lawns in Bill the Conqueror. Old Westbury, mentioned in The Old Reliable and Company for Henry is just to the north. Also mentioned in The Old Reliable as the scene of a story.
Westchester: Site of the holiday home of J. Russell Clutterbuck and close to Bensonburg. Mentioned in French Leave and The Indiscretions of Archie. (Possibly a disguise for Westhampton.)
Westhampton (Beach): 1. The Dunes, Westhampton, is the country home of James Schoonmaker, as stated in Service with a Smile.; 2. Edmund Pyke (Lord Tilbury's brother) had a summer home here, mentioned in Frozen Assets.

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