Totleigh-in-the-Wold
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Totleigh-in-the-Wold is a fictional location
, a village in the Jeeves
stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse
, being the setting for a number of little sagas involving the foppish Bertie Wooster
and his indispensable valet Jeeves
and is squire of the village of Totleigh-in-the-Wold. It is also the residence of Sir Watkyn's insipid, soupy daughter Madeline (who believes that Bertie is pining for her, when he isn't), his ward, Stephanie 'Stiffy' Byng, and the butler, Butterfield. Roderick Spode
, the amateur dictator and close friend of Sir Watkyn, is also a regular guest.
Bertie has been down there on a number of occasions, though perhaps most notably in order to retrieve a silver cow-creamer for his Uncle Tom Travers which Sir Watkyn had stolen. Well, he actually bought it. There was also the affair of the African Tribal Totem and of his Uncle Willoughby Wooster's memoirs.
Fictional location
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, a village in the Jeeves
Jeeves
Reginald Jeeves is a fictional character in the short stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse, being the valet of Bertie Wooster . Created in 1915, Jeeves would continue to appear in Wodehouse's works until his final, completed, novel Aunts Aren't Gentlemen in 1974, making him Wodehouse's most famous...
stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be...
, being the setting for a number of little sagas involving the foppish Bertie Wooster
Bertie Wooster
Bertram Wilberforce "Bertie" Wooster is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of British author P. G. Wodehouse. An English gentleman, one of the "idle rich" and a member of the Drones Club, he appears alongside his valet, Jeeves, whose genius manages to extricate Bertie or one of...
and his indispensable valet Jeeves
Jeeves
Reginald Jeeves is a fictional character in the short stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse, being the valet of Bertie Wooster . Created in 1915, Jeeves would continue to appear in Wodehouse's works until his final, completed, novel Aunts Aren't Gentlemen in 1974, making him Wodehouse's most famous...
Overview
Totleigh-in-the-Wold is home to one of Bertie Wooster's biggest enemies, Sir Watkyn Bassett C.B.E., magistrate of the Crown Court in Bosher Street, who fined him a finny after some rather raucous, drunken and disorderly conduct following the Oxford Boat Race Night Festivities. He lives in Totleigh TowersTotleigh Towers
Totleigh Towers is a recurring fictional location in the stories of English humorist P. G. Wodehouse. A country house, it is the home of widower Sir Watkyn Bassett, his ward Stephanie Byng, and his daughter Madeline Bassett...
and is squire of the village of Totleigh-in-the-Wold. It is also the residence of Sir Watkyn's insipid, soupy daughter Madeline (who believes that Bertie is pining for her, when he isn't), his ward, Stephanie 'Stiffy' Byng, and the butler, Butterfield. Roderick Spode
Roderick Spode
Roderick Spode, Bt, 7th Earl of Sidcup, often known as Spode or Lord Sidcup, is a recurring fictional character from the Jeeves novels of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being an "amateur Dictator" and the leader of a fictional fascist group in London called The Black Shorts...
, the amateur dictator and close friend of Sir Watkyn, is also a regular guest.
Bertie has been down there on a number of occasions, though perhaps most notably in order to retrieve a silver cow-creamer for his Uncle Tom Travers which Sir Watkyn had stolen. Well, he actually bought it. There was also the affair of the African Tribal Totem and of his Uncle Willoughby Wooster's memoirs.