Honeybun Cottage
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Tess moves into Honeybun Cottage in Starting Over, getting over being dumped and a spell of illness.
Nico, Josie and Maria move here in Christmas Wishes.
Pennybun Cottage
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Occupied for decades by Lucasta Meredith but left to Ratty in Starting Over
The Gazebo
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Here Ratty almost kisses Tess in Starting Over but then realises his parents are having drinks with Cassie and Christopher Carlysle in the gazebo.
MAR Motors
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Ratty's garage first appears in Starting Over and then in many Middledip books. Pete and Jos work there too.
Pete, Angel Jenna and Toby's House
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Pete, Angel Jenna and Toby's House Occupied by Pete, Angel, Jenna and Toby in Starting Over
Woodward Cottage
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Accommodation in the cottage comes with Ben's job in The Little Village Christmas. He lives there with Barney the barn owl.
The Lake
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The lake on the Carlysle estate from which Alexia rescues Ben in The Little Village Christmas.
The Village Shop
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The village shop first appears as A&G Crowther's in Starting Over when run by Gwen Crowther. In The Little Village Crhsitmas becomes Booze & News run by Gwen's niece, Melanie.
Alexia's Cottage and Workshop
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Alexia's Cottage and Workshop Alexia lives here in The Little Village Christmas. 44 Main Road.
The Angel Community Café
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Converted from the neglected Angel pub in The Little Village Christmas and then visited by characters in later books. Carola runs it once her marriaage is over and the village hall shuts for repair.
7 The Cross
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Liza's house in Dream a Little Dream
Miranda, Jos and Ethan's House
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Miranda, Jos and Ethan's House Dominic lives there for a while in Dream a Little Dream
Dominic's Flat
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Dominic's flat in Dream a Little Dream. He moves here, Great Hill Court in Great Hill Road, after leaving Miranda and Jos's house.
Gabe's House
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First seen in All That Mullarkey but later in The Little Village Christmas. The home of Snobby the pony, various chickens, cats, kittens and puppies.
The Village Playing Fields
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The Village Playing Fields Liza and Justin share a moment there in All That Mullarkey but it's also where village kids play and the annual bonfire takes place.
Ratty's House
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Ratty's house was introduced in Starting Over, then rented out to Cleo in All That Mullarkey.
Cleo's Final House
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The house in Port Road which Justin moves into in All That Mullarkey. Cleo did live with husband Gav somewhere lower down in Port Road, but prefers not to remember where.
The Carlysle Estate
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Owned by Christopher and Cassie Carlysle. Their son, Simeon is sometimes around there too.
Carlysle Home Farm
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Owned by Christopher and Cassie Carlysle.
The Village Hall
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This plays a big part in the village until we see it closed for repair in The Little Village Christmas. It reopens in time for A Christmas Gift
Georgine's House
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27 Top Farm Road in A Christmas Gift
The Three Fishes
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The village pub. Run for many years by Tubb from the Pub (Harrison Tubb) but taken over temporarily by Isaac then permanently by Ferdy and Elvis in Let it Snow. Everybody meets at the pub at some time! It's the heart of the village social scene even after the Angel Community Café arrives to give it some competition.
The Bankside Estate
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Also known as the New Village or Little Dallas because the first houses built there had porticoes. Sometimes looked down upon by the occupants of the older part of the village from Ladies Lane south.
The Rix Household
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The house on the corner of Church Close where Tamara's parents and her sister, Lyddie live in Ist This Love
Tamara's House
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Tamara lives here in Is This Love? This cul-de-sac never seems to get a name.
Wendy and Vanessa's House
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Wendy and Vanessa's House They live here in The Christmas Promise.
Carola's House
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Carola's House is one of those with a little portico. Lily moves into the basement in Let it Snow.
Bettsborough Road
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The way out of town towards Bettsborough and Peterborough
Port-le-bain Road
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The way out of town towards the next village, Port-le-bain. Leads also to Port Manor from Dream a Little Dream and Lie Low from Is This Love? Which in A Christmas Gift has been converted and extended to become an independent performing arts college called Acting Instrumental.
Footpaths
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Footpaths encircle the village and appear in every Middledip book.
Nan's House
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Nan Heather lives here in Christmas Wishes.
The Nookery
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Laurel lives here with Rea and Daisy in Under the Mistletoe.
When Laurel was sixteen, she couldn't get away from Middledip fast enough. That was nineteen years ago. Now her sister Rea and niece Daisy need her and, newly divorced, Laurel reluctantly returns…only to find that the reason she left the village is still living there. And so's his brother. It's hard to like one when she hates the other. A book of rekindled sparks and torn loyalties.
Mistletoe Cottage
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Grady lives here in Under the Mistletoe.
When Laurel was sixteen, she couldn't get away from Middledip fast enough. That was nineteen years ago. Now her sister Rea and niece Daisy need her and, newly divorced, Laurel reluctantly returns…only to find that the reason she left the village is still living there. And so's his brother. It's hard to like one when she hates the other. A book of rekindled sparks and torn loyalties.
Corner House
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Sky was fostered in Middledip and counts those thirteen months as the best of her childhood, when she learned how wonderful Christmas can be amongst people who care. When her adult life implodes along with her friendship with erstwhile foster brother Freddy, she returns to the village to buy the neglected Corner House.
Unfortunately, villager Daz wants the property for his own fresh start, after his girlfriend succumbs to the bright lights of London and his best friend gets mixed up in a fraud… Sky outbids him, but finds that them both living on Winter Street makes him impossible to avoid.
Marietta's House
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Sky was fostered in Middledip and counts those thirteen months as the best of her childhood, when she learned how wonderful Christmas can be amongst people who care. When her adult life implodes along with her friendship with erstwhile foster brother Freddy, she returns to the village to buy the neglected Corner House.
Unfortunately, villager Daz wants the property for his own fresh start, after his girlfriend succumbs to the bright lights of London and his best friend gets mixed up in a fraud… Sky outbids him, but finds that them both living on Winter Street makes him impossible to avoid.
Courtenay and Wilf's House
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Courtenay and Wilf's House Sky was fostered in Middledip and counts those thirteen months as the best of her childhood, when she learned how wonderful Christmas can be amongst people who care. When her adult life implodes along with her friendship with erstwhile foster brother Freddy, she returns to the village to buy the neglected Corner House.
Unfortunately, villager Daz wants the property for his own fresh start, after his girlfriend succumbs to the bright lights of London and his best friend gets mixed up in a fraud… Sky outbids him, but finds that them both living on Winter Street makes him impossible to avoid.
Daz's House
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Sky was fostered in Middledip and counts those thirteen months as the best of her childhood, when she learned how wonderful Christmas can be amongst people who care. When her adult life implodes along with her friendship with erstwhile foster brother Freddy, she returns to the village to buy the neglected Corner House.
Unfortunately, villager Daz wants the property for his own fresh start, after his girlfriend succumbs to the bright lights of London and his best friend gets mixed up in a fraud… Sky outbids him, but finds that them both living on Winter Street makes him impossible to avoid.
Explore the Middledip Map
Here's where you can access a copy of the hand-drawn map that I add to whenever I'm writing a Middledip book. I apologise that it's completely out of scale and proportion and my sketches are sketchy
The key locations in Middledip are marked by the small red hearts. Rolling over the marker will reveal the address. Clicking on the marker will open up a new panel with the cover of the book in which this location figured, plus a little background information.
Click the 'Go!' button above to enter an interactive map of Middledip. Enjoy!
The Middledip booksAll my books set in the Cambridgeshire village of Middledip are 'standalone', i.e. complete stories in themselves. However, as tends to be the case in villages, some characters touch on the lives of many people and, therefore, appear in more than one book. Does the village have its own timeline? Well, yes, it does, dictated by the order in which I wrote the books. Four of these are now available as the first part of the Middledip Box Set. |
 | Middledip Books 1-4- Starting Over
- All That Mullarkey
- Dream a Little Dream
- Is This Love?
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 | Starting Over - Tess comes to Middledip looking for a fresh start but begins badly when she runs into the breakdown truck driven by Ratty who owns the village garage. She moves into Honeybun Cottage down Little Lane. Ratty begin in Ladies Lane but moves to Pennybun Cottage. We also meet Jos and Pete from the garage; Angel, Pete's wife; Tubb from the pub, The Three Fishes; Gwen from the shop; Janice, bar staff at The Three Fishes in Main Road; and Carola, who heads up the village hall committee. |
 | All That Mullarkey - Cleo's living in Port Road, Middledip with her husband Gavin but the writing is on the wall - literally - for this relationship and Ratty becomes Cleo's landlord when she rents his house in Ladies Lane. Then she buys her own place and when Justin is forced out of his flat in Peterborough and Cleo and Gav's relationship is no more he becomes Cleo's lodger. We meet Cleo's wayward little sister, Liza. |
 | Dream a Little Dream - Liza was too naughty and fun to leave forever in the Secondary Characterland so deserves her own story. Things haven't gone well for her since All That Mullarkey but she moves into a little house at The Cross, Middledip. Dominic comes to the village to stay with his cousin Miranda in Great End until he finds a flat on the Bankside Estate. Miranda's by now married to Jos, who first appeared in Starting Over. We have plenty of opportunity to see how Cleo and Justin are getting along. |
 | Is This Love? - Tamara has lived in the village all her life and has her own little house at the end of Great Hill Road in the Bankside Estate. Jed lived there until his life went off-track as a teenager and he returns to give Tamara's family shocking news. He and his stepbrother, Manny (who we met briefly and in a shady role in All That Mullarkey), are working for a mysterious businessman and living in his property, Lie Low, on the edge of the village. We meet Gabe, the one-time bank manager who now lives on his own patch of land with his animals. |
 | The Christmas Promise (a quick visit in Chapter Sixteen/Seventeen) - Ava and Sam's story mainly takes place in London but Sam came from Middledip and knows Ratty and the guys from the garage. He visits his mum Wendy and Aunt Vanessa in Church Close. |
 | The Little Village Christmas - Alexia was brought up in the village. Though she has a cottage and workshop in Main Road she's bursting to move on to bigger things. Ben's left a mess behind in Berkshire and is living in the Woodward Cottage on the Carlysle estate. Gabe invests heavily in converting an old pub into a café but someone runs away with the money. Ben, Alexia, Gabe and Carola get involved in trying to salvage the project of bringing the Angel Community Café into being. Gwen has left the village shop at The Cross and her niece Melanie taken over. Carola's marriage ends. The village hall is temporarily closed. |
 | A Christmas Gift - Georgine knew Joe at school. She was one of the comfortably off kids who lived in Middledip and he lived in a poor estate in Bettsbrough. Since then, their fortunes have changed radically. She's living in Top Farm Road on the Bankside Estate. They're both working at Acting Instrumental, an independent performing arts college converted from Lie Low, the large property owned by Jed's employer in Is This Love? Joe splits his time between living in the apartment Jed occupied in Is This Love? and his house in Camden, London. |
| A Real Middledip Christmas (short story that first appeared over two weeks in My Weekly) - Tubb from the pub and Janice from behind the bar fall in love. We meet Lily Cortez, who appears in Let it Snow. |
 | Let it Snow - Lily came to the village a couple of years ago. She lives in Carola's basement on Great Hill Road and works part-time at The Three Fishes. When Tubb develops a heart condition he goes to Switzerland with Janice and Isaac comes in as temporary manager, living in guest accommodation over the pub. Lily's also an exhibition designer and as part of one of her jobs she and Carola get up a singing group, the Middletones, to travel to Switzerland. |
 | Christmas Wishes - Hannah's lost her shop in Stockholm and her fink of an ex-boyfriend is trying to swindle her. She returns to Middledip village to look after Nan Heather while she decides what happens next in her life and becomes embroiled with the family of childhood buddy Nico. He's trying to work out what happens next in his life, too. Wishes are easy to make but it's harder to make them come true… |
 | A White Christmas on Winter Street - childhood, when she learned how wonderful Christmas can be amongst people who care. When her adult life implodes along with her friendship with erstwhile foster brother Freddy, she returns to the village to buy the neglected Corner House.
Unfortunately, villager Daz wants the property for his own fresh start, after his girlfriend succumbs to the bright lights of London and his best friend gets mixed up in a fraud… Sky outbids him, but finds that them both living on Winter Street makes him impossible to avoid. |
