Enid Blyton Trail, Dorset - Walking In The Footsteps of Enid Blyton
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- Welcome to this Enid Blyton Trail vlog where we go walking in Enid Blyton's Footsteps.
Enid Blyton wrote hundreds of books for kids, but some of the most famous, included The Famous Five, The Secret Seven and Noddy.
In the beautiful English county of Dorset, there is a beautiful Enid Blyton Trail that you can follow to see many of the locations that inspired Enid Blyton to write about in her books.
We were kindly given permission by Visit Dorset to use their Enid Blyton Trail map, and in this Enid Blyton vlog, we visit all of the locations on the Enid Blyton Trail map.
Places on the Enid Blyton Trail map include, Corfe Castle, which was the inspiration for Kirrin Castle from the Famous Five books. Other places include, Swanage, Stair Hole, Kimmeridge, The Blue Pool, Stoborough Heath, The Isle of Purback Golf Club, Studland and Brownsea Island.
These were all places that were dear to Enid Blyton and she would use them as inspiration for locations in her books.
Make sure you grab your lashings of ginger beer, pack up a picnic, and follow us around The Isle Of Purbeck and surrounding areas in Dorset, as we literally walk in the footsteps of Enid Blyton.
This Enid Blyton Trail was part of our recent short stay in Dorset, where we stayed in a beautiful shepherd's hut in the woods at the foot of Corfe Castle, or should we say, Kirrin Castle.
Be sure to check out our full Dorset adventure as we visit many places and not just the places on the Enid Blyton Trail map.
We truly loved this adventure, walking in the footsteps of Enid Blyton, and we hope you've enjoyed visiting these locations with us.
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Oh I LOVED Enid Blyton's adventures. 🩷👌
So did we! Lived in those books we did. 🍻
I enjoy watching beautiful and refreshing scenery of nature thanks for sharing
Thank you so much 🍻
Drone views are awesome 😎
Nice capture 😊
Enjoy 😍
Thanks so much Aishu x
Been so looking forward to this. My absolute childhood favourites!
Mine too!!! The weather did us proud too. Cheers for watching 🍻
It's such a great tour and your commentary. I can feel the wonderful history and culture there! Thanks for sharing, my friends!🥷🇯🇵
Thank you so much. It's a beautiful county and well worth a visit. Cheers 🍻
This was a beautiful film! I had to watch it on the big screen TV with Ian. He read Enid's books as a child. Of course, I'd never heard of her. 😉
Ah thank you. Yes it seems she never made it into the USA. Her books were definitely a British institution and we all dreamed of picnics and adventures! Cheers 🍻
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It's really hard (for me, at least!!) to imagine _anyone_ growing up with no Enid Blyton adventures to thrill and inspire them through the mysteries of childhood (and beyond!!) 🤔🙂🏴😏🇬🇧❤️🖖
Brilliant! Love the video and tour. I loved the Famous Five as a kid. I got a huge book of stories as a kid and I coloured in the pictures. Dorset is so lovely too.
Cheers. I lived in those books, so did Wills. It was such a fun trail and we loved Dorset so much. Cheers for watching 🍻
That brought back happy memories, not only the books but visiting that area years ago. Lovely to see the Blue Pool again ❤ 14:32
Thank you so much. We loved the isle of Purbeck and learning about the locations. Cheers 🍻
Feel lucky to live in Dorzet
You are lucky. What a beautiful county. Cheers 🍻
Very nice, ✨️.
Like deployed 👍
Cheers 🍻
This area was so lovely to see- been there didn't realise about the Enid connection. Drat. So thrilled to see those titles come by on screen. Oh the trips to the library as a young girl. Thank you for sharing and making this cool video. Couldn't help myself- shared it on my FB page. Have a great week. 🙋♀🇳🇿🥝 Cheers from Hamilton New Zealand.👌
Ah thank you so much that's very kind. Hope you're having fun in New Zealand! You're gonna have to do another U.K. road trip!!! Cheers for watching 🍻
This was like reading a cosy novel. Loved it xxx
Ah thank you. There used to be something so comforting about her stories. We both loved them. Cheers 🍻
@@PostcardAndAPint I feel like a trip is needed to visit these places. I love your posts x
@@brianroberts5048 thank you x
Thanks again for an amazing video. Dorset is beautiful. You’re so right you give us so much inspiration to visit again. We definitely do the trail. So glad we found the both of you Your videos are always exciting, interesting and very enjoyable to watch❤
What a lovely thing to say. Thank you so much for watching. It certainly won't be our last visit to Dorset either. Cheers 🍻
Hey Rach and Wills,
Ah we absolutely loved this guys! I (Shell) was in the secret seven camp too as a child. My twin sister and i also loved reading the short stories by Enid Blyton, she really knew how to capture children's imaginations 🥰. There was certainly lots of inspiration in Dorset for the books, Corfe Castle is just stunning 😍 🏰. Think our favourite place was the whirlpool, how pretty! And the blue pool was also lovely (nice drone shots by the way Wills 👌). You guys packed so much into three days! This was a nostalgic watch, brilliantly put together as ever. Jolly well enjoyed that 😊🙌.
Have a fab week ahead,
Shell and Pete 😊👍
Thanks guys. Wills was team secret seven. I was definitely team famous five! She certainly could grab your imagination with her stories! I thought it was so boring that we had to go on holiday with our parents to France!!! Anyway, we finally got our Dorset fix and it was gorgeous. The whirlpool at stair hole is gorgeous as are the views over lulworth cove from there. Cheers again 🍻
Magnificent. I like it so much!
Have a nice time. Greetings ~ Milan
Thank you so much for watching 🍻
Gorgeous drone footage! And I loved the background music as well 👍👍
Thank you so much. Music is my favourite part of the videos. 🍻
@@PostcardAndAPint I need someone in this household who thinks music is a fun part of videos to edit! 😫
Loved learning about all the historical connections. Made me want to visit the locations and also dig out all my old books. Really interesting.
Dig those books out! Contrary to todays world - they don't get old!! Cheers for joining us on the trail. 🍻
Hi guys, loved this so much. Been looking forward to it. It's made me want to read all The Famous Five books again. Hope you are having a lovely weekend. Best wishes Dave and Dawn ❤️
Get them out and give them a read!!! Then go do the trail! It was lovely to visit so many of the places she drew her inspiration from. Cheers for watching 🍻
Wonderful thank u ❤ xnx
Ah thank you so much. We're glad you enjoyed it 🍻
Amazing historic castle, beautiful green landscapes, train station, town and so much more. I am not too familiar with Enid Blyton but you caught my interest. Really pretty places. You showcased them perfectly. Have a nice week.
Thank you so much for watching. Many a UK child, lived on her world of picnics, exploring and magical things. Dorset is such a beautiful county too. Cheers for watching 🍻
I loved The Famous Five...
And The Adventures with Philip, Dinah, Jack, Lucy-Anne and Kiki...🦜 They're my favourites to be honest...❤🏴🙂🖖
My son's name is Julian (but that's a coincidence, I promise!)
Top choice of name for your son. We both love the adventure series too, they were quite complex stories. Cheers for watching and coming along with us to celebrate Enid Blyton. Cheers 🍻
Hi both, ah this looked like a great area and place to visit, we've not been over there but this tour is like the Alice in Wonderland inspired one in Llandudno which we loved too when we did it. Great to see the places come to life. That castle is gorgeous and the Enid Blyton books were great to read so it would be good to follow that trail as its so beautiful there 🙂👍~ Anna
We've seen afew of the Alice statues and places in Llandudno, but never done the trail. This trial was gorgeous and it was amazing to see the inspiration for so many parts of her stories. Cheers 🍻
As with Cara we haven't read the books either. Don't know if they caught on over here, but they sound exciting. I loved the Hardy Boys series. We enjoyed seeing some of the places that gave her inspiration. The nudist beach would inspire me! 😎😎Happy you got your clothes back on before filming! Would love to take a ride on the steam train and great job finding the old fossils. And we weren't even there. 🤣🤣 Fun literary tour, Rachel and Wills. Dorset looks like a fun and beautiful place. Thanks for bringing us along.
My cousin loved the Hardy Boys series. Famous five are a very British Institution! We didn't find the nudist beach! Would have been a bit cold anyway!! The steam train is a beauty and the countryside it travels through is gorgeous. Cheers for watching and sending a big Cwtch to your mum. Hope she's on the mend. 🍻
Lovely to see you both back in our homeland enjoying the inspiring scenery and landscapes of Dorset.. So hope you go back and see more - The Famous Five have been a big part of COOK childhoods and when growing up in Dorset we were completely oblivious of the relevance of our surroundings. Thanks for showcasing the Isle of Purbeck .
“Modern Day Dick”? Bit harsh Rach!
It's a gag that was there for the taking!! Cheers for watching guys. We loved Dorset and will definitely visit again. We were so blessed with the weather on the Saturday too. Cheers 🍻
I really enjoyed watching your Enid Blyton trail and seeing the various spots from those iconic five books, I read them as a nipper too, so like you mentioned Rach, it was wonderful to piece it all together and put the actual place to the name in the book. So sweet. Gorgeous train views over Corfe castle. All of Dorset is so beautiful! Thank you both for another EPIC video! Will consider doing this trail when the weather improves hehe :)
Ah thank you. It was a lovely few days away and doing the trail was epic! It's amazing how close together all of these places are. We definitely found our inner famous fives of this trip! Cheers for watching 🍻
Nathan loved Famous Five, Secret Seven and of course Noddy! Amy on the other hand hasn’t heard of any of them, apart from Noddy!! 😂😂 Great video guys, we’ve never been to Dorset, but the scenery looks absolutely stunning 😍
Thanks both, it’s a stunning area and we loved the Enid Blyton theme. Can’t believe Amy hasn’t read the Famous Five haha. Grab yourself some lashings of ginger beer and binge read some Enid Blyton haha. Cheers both 🍻
Breathtaking captures...
Wonderful place to explore....
So informative 👏...
Thank you so much. Dorset is beautiful and we will definitely be back. Cheers for watching 🍻
Wow. Some beautiful places visited here, and I did not realise there was an Enid Blyton map of places to visit. I love Swanage and Durdle Door, not been to many of the other places. Great vlog, all the best, Webby 👍
Cheers. We had a lovely few days away and it was so much fun to follow this trail. We did visit durdle door in our other Dorset vlog, we loved it! Cheers for watching 🍻
Never read these books but they sound like exciting adventures. Love that you took us to their inspiration. Great drone shots and as always fantastic narration Rachel. EARS 😂😂! ~Cara ❤
So close to 5K too! 🎉
They are very much a British institution! We loved seeing the places that inspired the stories. Dorset is such a beautiful county. Cheers for watching and sorry about Wills jokes!!! 🍻
Great vlog! Made me want to re read all the Enid Blyton books!
Thanks so much, we really enjoyed making these Dorset videos. Cheers
Rachel’s knowledge on all these places just blows my mind. Where does she get all this information?!?! Just researching all this info for the video every week has to come close to a full time job!
The internet!! And yes, it is becoming a 2nd full time job! But I love it 🍻
The weather and countryside conspired to make this a gorgeous video. A really pretty region.
I loved Enid as a kid. I don't think I read any of the Famous Five books though. Funnily enough whenever Aldi here has a kids book sale they have boxed sets of Famous Five or Secret Seven available so they are still very popular. I think our Georgia read most of them when she was younger.
It was so amazing to go and explore that part of the country. I was team famous five and Wills was team secret seven, we loved all her books. It seems she was just as popular in Australia but the Americans have never heard of her! We're glad you've brought up Georgia properly!!! Cheers for watching 🍻
@@PostcardAndAPint Americans are weird 😂
That was simply smashing! I was looking forward to this one. I still have all of our Famous Five books from our childhood and I still read them! Especially if I’m ill. There’s something really comforting about them. They take you back to a time where life was simple and carefree. I definitely want to do the trail some day.
It's such a cool trail! Deffo do it. Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks awfully!!! 🍻
Thanks for the memories! I never know her married name was Darrell-Waters and was the inspiration for Darrell Rivers. I wanted to be Darrell Rivers 😍 Mallory Towers and The Twins of St Clare’s were my childhood ❤️ My cousin and I swapped and shared Famous Five and Secret Seven books too!
I didn't know that either and I also wanted to be Darrell Rivers!! Thanks for watching and joining us on this trip! I think Helga might need a trip down to Dorset!!cheers 🍻
Hi Rachel & Wills, what a lovely treat! I Loved my Enid Blyton books as a child. How fabulous to see the inspiration for Kirrin Castle. I really enjoyed seeing all the beautiful spots Enid enjoyed visiting and those she was inspired to include in her wonderful books. Thanks for showing us around ❤
Thank you so much. It was such a fun trail to do. We talked so much famous five as we went around all the places. Thanks for joining us and reliving your famous five too! Cheers 🍻
Had a fab long weekend in this neck of the woods (pre TH-cam days). We recommend a trip to Hardy's Cottage.
Modern day Dick. We wet ourselves laughing 😂
Thanks guys. It won't be our last trip to Dorset, it's idyllic. The Dixk gag was there for the taking!!! Cheers 🍻
Another amazing professional production. Well done guys. We too loved the Famous Five books & we knew of some of the places in Dorset that Enid used for inspiration but there was some you mentioned that we didn't know. We read somewhere once that there is a farmhouse in Stoborough that was the inspiration for Finniston Farm in " Five go to Finniston Farm". 😊😊
Thank you so much. We loved doing this trail and in fact all of our time in Dorset. All these locations are on the official Enid Blyton trail. We'd love to have visited the farmhouse that inspired Finniston farm. We both loved so many of her books and it was amazing to be in her countryside. Cheers 🍻
Just found your channel today, you two seem so genuine! Great to watch
Thank you so much and welcome! We're glad you enjoyed this video. Cheers 🍻
Back from the footy and settled in for a fix of P&AP. What a great video. The Enid Blyton trail looks awesome. Glad you had a fabulous time in Dorset. We have enjoyed seeing what you got up to. Great job as always. Have a good week. 👍🏻🚶🏻♂️🚶♀️Cheers. 🍻
Thanks so much. It's a lovely trail and we were blessed with gorgeous weather for one day too! Cheers for watching and have a brilliant week. 🍻
Wow, what a backdrop for some pretty amazing adventures! I can see that with just a little bit of imagination and a talent for writing it would be a marvelous location! Now that's a great tidbit on Baden-Powel...was in the scouting movement for years! What a great idea for a series on story locations!! Brilliant!!
Thank you so much. It's a fascinating county and so pretty. A writers paradise! Good on you being a scout! I was in the girl guides (scouts) too! Cheers 🍻
Loved the books for sure, what a fantastic place to grow up, I used to go on adventures with my dog patch on my bike in the country, one time patch was digging a rabbit hole and a huge goanna came running out, scared the daylights out of us 😂
You see, I just had to Google what a goanna was! I would have run a mile too! We'll stick with rabbits! Cheers for watching. It's a beautiful county and we even had one good weather day! Cheers 🍻
@@PostcardAndAPint yep they are huge for sure, it went down there looking for rabbits
Hi guys this was fabulous and Dorset looks lovely! I remember the Enid Blyton books but knew nothing about her until now and was super interesting! Beautifully edited and narrated! Jill thinks you should do a children’s book podcast for bedtime stories Rachel 👍 have a great week ❤️
Ah thanks Jill! I'd give kids nightmares!! She was a fascinating woman and there's so much more about her we didn't say! Cheers for watching and we do recommend Dorset! Cheers 🍻
The pill boxes on the beach were a snap back to the scary reality of just how evil things can get.
Aren't they just. It also show how much the cliffs have eroded in only 80 years!
Hello from Brazil ☕️. Fantastic video and place
Thank you so much for watching 🍻
wow this is an exciting trail to walk
*thumbs up👍☑Au💯full view always😎🦘*
Thank you so much. It's a beautiful place 🍻
This was such a lovely video. We will be adding to our places to go. That shepherds hut is just a dream too. I read quite a few Secret Seven books, but cant remember any of them now. Will have to have a trip fown memory lane. ❤ sending love from Qatar 🇶🇦
Thank you so much. It was an idyllic few days away and incredible to see the inspirations for so many locations in her books. Wills was a big secret seven fan too! Cheers 🍻
Rachel I love your accent. You could be a tv presenter 😀
Ah thank you! Sadly I have a face for radio, but cheers! 🍻
Another great video. Made us want to go back to Dorset… the only other time we’ve been was a freezing cold February back when we weren’t vlogging (but if we had, we would have been called Travelling With Toddlers)
Definitely go back! Don't know what the teens would think, but we loved it! We were very lucky to get that one beautiful day of weather too. Cheers for watching 🍻
I have heard of the Enid Blyton Trail, but have never heard The Famous Five or any of her books. In the US we had the Boxcar Children, written in the 50's and 60's about four orphans who live with their grandfather and solve mysteries.
Oh wow. It seems her stories didn't get to the USA. I've never heard of the Boxcar children, but they sound similar. I must look those up. Cheers for watching 🍻
The Enid Blyton Trail is definitely something I'll put on the list of things to see and do when I'm in the UK, it's such a beautiful part of the country. Reading some of your comments I thought it was interesting that Americans didn't really know her books, I had thought she was like the JK Rowling of her era, known and read by children all around the world. Seems like she was mainly read in the UK and definitely Australia, the books are still in bookstores here, and there wouldn't be anyone over a certain age who hadn't read an Enid Blyton book, or had them read to them. The Magic Faraway tree was made into a picture book and popular with young children (My university job was in a bookshop!)
I'm surprised too! Like you, I thought she was the JK Rowling of her time. I'm glad she made it to Australia! We both lived in those books as kids and longed for a life full of picnics and adventures. Definitely put this on your list for when you're next over, it was a fun 2 days. Cheers 🍻
Read very widely in India.. till today
@@joebloggs7425 good to hear x
STUDland near a nudist beach?! I can't believe you didn't have a field day with that one!🙈
Missed that one!! I was feeling wholesome doing an Enid Blyton Vlog! 🍻
@@PostcardAndAPint that's fair! Keeping it family friendly 💖
Moonfleets a nice historic place plus you have the lagoons where the bouncing bomb was trialed
Thanks for the heads up. We loved Dorset and definitely want to visit again. We'll add that to our list. Cheers for watching 🍻
Oh my oh my - Dorset has just gone right up my places to go list for this year. Enjoyed every moment of this one. I read all the Famous Five books but read and re-read the Secret Seven books as I grew up, I assume those were inspired by the same areas though. Warm wishes from Millionaire Paul :)
Yes they were. She would holiday there 3 times a year. I believe there are many more locations around, but those that we did make up the official wind Blyton trail. Cheers for watching 🍻
@@PostcardAndAPint Interesting. I'll do some more research before we go there :)
Didn’t Karl Pilkington stay in one of those cabins once?
We've not watched his show for ages. He possibly did. Cheers for watching 🍻
While Wills was in the gallows, you should have locked him in! Is it called the gallows? I’m not sure. The stocks maybe? I should have looked it up before I commented. Sorry.
Aw, that’s not very nice Ken 😂😂😂. Oh, yeah, they’re stocks 🏰
At what point does the castle become so deteriorated that the government repurposes the land?
It doesn't! It's in the care of the national trust. If it becomes dangerous, it's repaired. We have quite a few different trusts in the U.K. that look after different historical sites. Membership helps to preserve them so they can be enjoyed. Do you have trusts like that in the USA?
@@PostcardAndAPint we have landmarks here. When something is granted landmark status, it cannot be torn down and must be preserved. Even if it is still being used. For example, Wrigley Field is a Landmark and it is still being used.
@@kennethfinnegan2978 that's cool. These organisations look after so many castles and landmarks here. We need to join the national trust! At the moment we're just members of Cadw that do the Welsh sites 🍻
@@PostcardAndAPint of course b members of the Welsh sites. Why would you join the trusts of the English oppressors? 😂🤣
@@kennethfinnegan2978 to save money getting into English sites!!
I don't know why people feel nostalgic about Enid Blyton, I hated most of her books when I grew up in the 60s. I thought they were crass, class biased and silly.
Each to their own I guess. I can see where you're coming from, but as kids we just got lost in the adventures and didn't see anything outside of those. Cheers for watching though. 🍻