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Geographers use computer to locate P.G. Wodehouse's castle

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20030905
Author:JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press Writer

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Dateline: LONDON Blandings Castle, the stately home where Lord Emsworth daydreamed and the porcine Empress wallowed, has been found. Maybe.

The castle, setting for a series of books by comic novelist P.G. Wodehouse, is fictional _ but that has not stopped obsessive fans trying to locate it.

Drawing on descriptions in Wodehouse's novels, a pair of geographers from University College London have used computer modeling to pinpoint the location of the castle where vague Lord Emsworth lived with his fearsome sisters and his prize-winning pig, the Empress of Blandings.

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