Sign for the Empress of Blandings, Copythorne
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Sign for the Empress of Blandings, Copythorne
Image: © Maigheach-gheal Taken: 7 Jan 2008
Literature's most famous porker - the Empress of Blandings from the PG Wodehouse novels. The Empress was a Berkshire sow that obsessed her owner Lord Emsworth in the novels of Wodehouse. The dotty peer is determined that his animal should eventually win the Shropshire County Show's Fattest Pig prize, but suspects his opponents are out to nobble her. The Berkshire, which is one of the many endangered breeds of British pig which has declined in numbers as the farming industry has concentrated on producing other larger, breeds.
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Image Location
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50.935495
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-1.556509