Beatrix Potter's Hill Top Farm

One of the most visited places in England's Lake District National Park is Hill Top Farm. It was owned by Beatrix Potter, the creator of Peter Rabbit and nearly two dozen other children's classics. She used the money she made to become a major land owner in the Lake District. Her mission was to preserve it from development. On her death she left all of her property to the government who used it as the foundation for what would become England's most visited National Park and in 2017, a Untied Nation's World Heritage Site.

[@MTknitter22]

Locals will tell you that surely if Beatrix had not bought and protected those 4,000 acres it would have been developed and ruined long ago. Bravo for this talented lady!!

[@Kratos-005]

When there is scenery like this. It’s easy to see where a lot of British authors get their ideas from. The English countryside is a magical place.

[@MelliaBoomBot]

I watched Miss Potter the other day and it was one the best films I have ever seen...enchanting. I watched Peter Rabbit a few years ago and that was lovely too....

[@bjaquez6]

I cried seeing this. I just watched Miss Potter. It's my Sunday kind of movie.

[@PhilipDeanVideo]

Thank you for the kind message.

[@Brian-om2hh]

What many may not realize is that Beatrix Potter was also famous locally as a Championship sheep breeder. Once she became sufficiently wealthy enough she purchased a number of farms in her locality, along with several thousand acres of land. She did this simply because she did not want to see any great changes to the landscape she loved. As a successful and respected sheep breeder, and something of a breed expert, she was often asked to judge at agricultural shows etc. On her death, her farms and land passed to the National Trust, whom still look after Hill Top to this day.......

[@pallavik5220]

I watched the movie Miss. Potter that was in my recommendation and cried. Because of her a lot of people in the area have steady income not just through agriculture but now by B&B.

[@Brian-om2hh]

Having watched the Miss Potter movie, I thought Rene Zellweger's English accent was remarkable, for an American......no mention of sheep farming in the movie though.....

[@MedicalParasitology]

It's a dream to live in such a cosy sweet cottage..

[@Brian-om2hh]

Apologies for putting a dampener on it, but you might not think it quite so cosy and sweet with endless numbers of cars and people right outside your door! This place gets extremely busy and crowded in the height of the holiday season. Although in Beatrix Potter's day it would be pretty much as you described it.

[@user-rs9jq2my3w]

Beatrix was an icon. Love her!

[@elaineteut6508]

My daughter and son-in-law lived in England for several years and they took us up to this area. We visited Windemere and Kessick. We stayed at the cutest bed and breakfast inns.Very beautiful countryside.

[@Brian-om2hh]

It's Keswick, although it is pronounced the way you wrote it.

[@HarbingerOfDoom69]

She also stayed and wrote Peter rabbit at my family's castle. Wray castle. My family is just as colourful. Eleanor Wray who invented and industrialized speech pathology.

[@1toshi32]

Susan Wittig Albert wrote some lovely books with Beatrix Potter as the main character. They are novels with a bit of a detective twist. Anyone who loves Beatrix Potter would love these books. I have read them cover to cover several times. Really well written and brings to life the time and what she would have lived through. I would dearly love to visit Hill Top Farm but I doubt I will ever get to go there. I love watercolours and take her as inspiration to many of my paintings.

[@meganconnell6853]

I went to the Hill Top House Farm in Near Sawrey in Cumbria in England in the UK in 2004, I have drove through the village of Near Sawrey in Cumbria in England in the UK in 2021 and I remembered it on the Live Action sets before and after the animation sets of "The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends" (The Dianne Jackson and John Coates Cartoon Animated Series Versions) and I remembered and I got a good memory on those things.

[@bernadettebyrne2093]

She actually lived in that little house up until she married and then she moved to the bigger house across the way

[@OuiOui..]

I wish i won the lottery so that i could visit this magical village with my mother and father

[@robertkirk4387]

i hope so to

[@andymelendez-ms2wz]

Excelente historia ‼️‼️‼️☝️😃👍

[@Dawghome]

I look forward to the day that my hackles don't rise when I browse through a Beatrix Potter book! Ugghh I was force fed her books at primary school and the teacher eventually asked why I hated these stories so much, it was obvious to me! Animals don't wear clothes, that's probably why I liked them, they weren't human and they treated me better than the humans I knew!! Ugghhh getting that off my chest after nearly 60 years!! What a blessing.

[@sandratogneri9982]

Informative XXX ❤

[@albertodillon]

The movie :"Peter Rabbit " has lead me there, l know now who is the writer Beatrix Potter

[@HerHomeschoolHomestead]

Watch the film of her. Miss Potter (2006).

[@Brian-om2hh]

@@HerHomeschoolHomestead The film, pleasant though it is, completely overlooks part of Beatrix Potter's life. There is not a single mention in the film of her very strong association with the National Trust and sheep breeding in the Lakes. After she moved there, this became a large part of her life until she died. Perhaps it wasn't seen as romantic enough to include in the film?

[@Brian-om2hh]

You got the name of her Solicitor wrong. It wasn't Hallis, it was Heelis...... There is still a Heelis operating as a Solicitor in my local town today......

[@paulskillman7595]

You are seeing it on a sunny day. You would not like it on a rainy day. England is cold and damp most the year. This is really the best way to see it. On your computer in your warm house where ever you might live. Disney is the person who really brought it all to life. You don't get green hills without rain.

[@user-eo5kj3kx2b]

素敵で素晴らしい自然ですね。

[@Brian-om2hh]

I completely agree.......

[@MelliaBoomBot]

Me too....

[@willz9231]

anyone from Mr Grants online class reading this? Like if yes

[@willz9231]

im william btw

[@memetempletuser8395]

wew

[@ShinkuRosetta]

Where are the Hobbits?

[@meanhe8702]

William HEElis, there’s no “a” it’s not pronounced halis.

[@gillwilkinsongw]

Quite right, they need to get their info correct.

[@Brian-om2hh]

There is still a solicitors practice in Kendal with the name Heelis in the window.

[@derekmulready1523]

Unfortunately it's an American voice over . 🇮🇪🇪🇺