The iconic Highlands Turret at Godstowe School, in High Wycombe, has been rebuilt after being out of action for the last three months.

Famous Five and Noddy creator Enid Blyton had spent a large part of her life in Buckinghamshire – living in Bourne End between 1929 to 1938 before moving to Beaconsfield – where she spent the next 30 years, until her death in 1968.

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Both of the author’s daughters boarded at the all-girls preparatory school in the 1940s.

Godstowe headmistress Sophie Green, who was nominated as Tatler’s ‘best head of a prep school’ 2020, said: “It was a high point for us last week to reopen the Highlands Tower; it is a very picturesque aspect of our site and I am delighted to have it back in action.

“At Malory Towers, the most successful old girls are not ‘those who have won scholarships and passed exams’ but those who have become ‘good, sound women the world can lean on’.

“Godstowe was founded by two strong, progressive women, originally in fact as a school whose purpose would be to prepare girls for the move down the hill to Wycombe Abbey School.

“Their vision was for an innovative, academic, and broad education for girls and, without a doubt, this continues to live on in today’s school.”

And Sarah Oborn, conservation officer at Buckinghamshire Council, was “delighted” with the restoration, saying: “The tower is looking really good and it is apparent that the work has been undertaken to a high standard [and] specification in keeping with the building’s original construction.”