House Names

[Julie2owlsdene]

We've had secret passages, etc, from the books. So how about house names. The many different house names that people use is fasinating. How many did Enid use in her many books, I wonder. As I've only read just a small proportion of her books, I'm sure there must be many house names she used that are new to me. The ones that spring to mind at present are:-

Owls Dene - Famous Five
Two Trees - F.F
Big Hollow - F.F.
Smugglers Top - F.F
Blue Pond Farm House - F.F
Red Roofs
Holiday House
Black Swan - Houseboat. Boy Next Door.
There must be loads of others.

[Belly]

Craggy Tops - Adventure Series, Jack & Lucy ann's uncle's house I think.

Kirrin Cottage, Farm etc.

What was the name of the cottage in one of the five books that Wifred appears in?

[Anita Bensoussane]

To add just a few more:

Green Meadows - The Children at Green Meadows
Peep-Hole - The Secret of Spiggy Holes
Happy House - The Children at Happy House
Green Hedges - Bimbo and Topsy

Anita

[Rob Houghton]

Old Thatch - in 'Tales of old Thatch'

[Julie2owlsdene]

What was the name of the cottage in one of the five books that Wifred appears in?

I think that one was called Hill Cottage

Then there's :-
Rubadub Inn - Barney Mystery
Green Trees (Grintris) Mystery of Holly Lane
Greylings Manor - Treasure Hunters
Rockingdown Manor - Barney Mystery.

[dsr]

Mistletoe Farm - Six cousins at ......

[Anita Bensoussane]

White House - Fatty's house, named in The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat
Milton House - The Mystery of the Secret Room
Kosy-Kot - The Mystery of the Missing Necklace
Tally-Ho Cottage - The Mystery of Tally-Ho Cottage
The Ivies/Fairlin Hall - The Mystery of the Strange Messages
Spring Cottage - The Castle of Adventure
Quarry Cottage - The Circus of Adventure

Anita

[Julie2owlsdene]

Yes, well remembered Anita.

Norton House - Inspector Jenks God-daughters house. (Mystery of the Invisible thief)

[Anita Bensoussane]

A few more:

Cherry Tree Farm
Willow Farm
Holly Farm and Three Towers - Six Cousins at Mistletoe Farm
Harry's Folly - The Mystery of the Hidden House
Golliwog Cottage - The Three Golliwogs
Heather Cottage - The Adventures of Binkle and Flip
Crab-apple Cottage - The Enid Blyton Book of Brownies
Jolly Cottage - Tales of Toyland

[Lucky Star]

And some more

Willow House - The Secret island
Moon Castle - The Secret of..
Rat-a-Tat House - The Rat-a-Tat Mystery

I think Craggy Tops, Kirrin Cottage, Smugglers Top and Owls Dene probably remain the best remembered and most evocative of Blyton's houses.

[Julie2owlsdene]

Old Mill House - Secret Seven - (Just started to read the reviews)

[lizarfau]

I think she's great at naming houses and also towns and villages. The names are just so atmospheric. I think she comes up with the best pretend names of houses and villages of any author I've read. Well, I suppose Thomas Hardy was pretty good too, and also Antonia Forest. But EB came up with so many more names ...

[Lucky Star]

Yes her place and house names really do fit the stories so well. I remember great confusion as a child trying to pronounce the village of Penrhyndendraith from The Ragamuffin Mystery.

Also if you read some of her stories for younger children such as are found in the Reward series books you will find wonderful places like Cuckoo lane, Toadstool Village, Sunflower common and many others. Many of these stories contain wonderfully named characters also. I can think of Higgle and Piggle, Tick and Tock, old Mother Doodah, The riddling Wizard and there are countless other examples of pixies, gnomes and fairies with beautifully simple but very evocative names.

[Maggie Knows]

Spiggy House - where Mr Gaston lives in Five go on a Hike

[Moonraker]

Spiggy House - where Mr Gaston lives in Five go on a Hike

Obviously meant something to her, as she named a location, Spiggy Holes.