Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures is a Doctor Dolittle book written by Hugh Lofting. The book is a posthumous collection of stories that Lofting originally wrote during the 1920s for the "Herald Tribune Syndicate" but here first included in book form. The book originally contained two introductory pieces followed by eight Doctor Dolittle stories by Hugh Lofting: Those marked † are omitted in recent reprintings for no given reason. The first four stories may be read at the beginning of "Doctor Dolittle's Garden". "The Green Breasted Martins" follows Chapter XII in "The Story of Doctor Dolittle". "The
Barmby on the Marsh Kings Head (the Sloop Inn closed some decades ago). Neighbouring Asselby also has a pub, The Black Swan. Unusually, Barmby is situated at the end of a long dead end road, on which also lies the village of Asselby. Barmby was served by Barmby railway station on the Hull and Barnsley Railway between 1885 and 1955. Barmby on the Marsh Barmby on the Marsh is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately west of the market town of Howden. It lies on the east bank of the River Ouse (and facing