Enid Blyton Tour

Highlights

• Stay in hotels visited by Enid and her family
• Beckenham, where she grew up in several different properties - her affection for the town is reflected by her naming Malory Towers after one of the town's streets, Malory Close.
• Visit the Isle of Purbeck, which was bought by Blyton and her husband. Enjoy a round of golf, just as Enid and Kenneth Darrell Waters did! Have the opportunity to hold Enid's actual putter. 
• Discover the Jurassic Coast and the many sites that inspired Enid's stories.
• Wander through the narrow roads of Swannage - it is believed that Enid took inspiration from the locals when creating her characters.
• Enjoy a steam train ride on a route taken by Enid herself - steam locomotives feature in several of her stories. 
• Noddy's Town was inspired by a line of picturesque cottages in Studland village. 
• Follow in the footsteps of Julian, Dick, George, Anne and Timmy the dog as you take a ferry ride across to Brownsea Island...the inspiration for Whispering Island in  Five have a Mystery to Solve.
• Enjoy a picnic on Kimmeridge Bay, where 'rocks jutter up from the beach, surrounded by limpid rock pools'....the setting for the children's picnic in Five Fall into Adventure. 
• Visit the Blue Pool at Furzebrook, which features in  Five go off in a Caravan and Five go to Mystery Moor.
• The ruins of Corfe Castle, which inspired famous Kirrin Island, the setting for the Famous Five's first adventure, Five on a Treasure Island, which featured in several more Famous Five books.
• Manor Farm - the Dorset farm that Blyton and her husband purchased in the 1950's. The farm provided inspiration for many of her novels and was the setting for Five on Finniston Farm.