No Entry is the eighth book in the Romney Marsh series of novels by Monica Edwards

Monica Edwards

Monica Edwards was an English children's writer of the mid-twentieth century best known for her Romney Marsh and Punchbowl Farm series of children's novels.-Early life:...

, published in 1954 by Collins

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. When several farms in the area contract foot-and-mouth disease and have to slaughter their herds, the Merrows at Castle Farm are determined to isolate the farm from all visitors so that the highly infectious disease is kept away. The four children were due to visit the farm for a holiday, and find an ingenious way to prove they have not been infected. When Mr Merrow is involved in a serious accident, the children take over the management of the siege themselves.

The story was first published in the Young Elizabethan Magazine as a serial between October 1953 and April 1954. It was also serialised by BBC radio as part of their Children's Hour

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 in 1955.

Although No Entry was written after Storm Ahead

Storm Ahead

Storm Ahead is the seventh book in the Romney Marsh series of novels by Monica Edwards, published in 1953 by Collins. Lindsey Thornton, from Punchbowl Farm in Surrey, comes to stay at Westling with the Grey family. Almost immediately she is caught up in the worst gale the area has seen for many,...

it is set in the autumn before Storm Ahead

Storm Ahead

Storm Ahead is the seventh book in the Romney Marsh series of novels by Monica Edwards, published in 1953 by Collins. Lindsey Thornton, from Punchbowl Farm in Surrey, comes to stay at Westling with the Grey family. Almost immediately she is caught up in the worst gale the area has seen for many,...

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Blurb from First Edition

Romney March is the setting for Mrs. Edwards's new story. Tamzin and Rissa, by now old friends to many readers, plan to camp in the Merrows' farm for part of their summer holidays. Disaster, however, threatens to intervene when they learn that there is foot-and-mouth disease in the district and the farmer is determined on complete isolation. Undaunted, Tamzin, Rissa and their friends arrive at the farm having first discovered a way of disinfecting themselves, and they are allowed to stay: and when an accident occurs to Mr. Merrow, all the friends are involved in a full-time job running the farm and patrolling its boundaries. Incidents abound and the reader is kept thoroughly involved and excited by all that goes on. No Entry is right up to the high standard Mrs. Edwards has already set herself, and it is confidently recommended to those who enjoy first-class storytelling and really life-like characters.

Subsequent editions

• Children’s Book Club – 1956
• Collins 6/- edition – 1957
• Armada paperback – 1964 (abridged)
• Collins Pony Library – 1972 (abridged)
• Girls Gone By Publishers
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  reprint of original – November 2005