Go behind the scenes at Beatrix Potter's Lake District home, Hill Top, with the National Trust

Join us on a behind-the-scenes video tour of Hill Top, the much-loved Cumbrian home of author Beatrix Potter, creator of the character Peter Rabbit™. Although the farm is closed at the moment you can still explore the writer's paintings, drawings, treasured objects, as well as the surrounding countryside that inspired her. Look out for your favourite characters along the way.
You can get the Hill Top garden look with a collection of herbaceous plants specially selected by our partners, Blue Diamond Garden Centres www.bluediamond.gg/hill-top-h...
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[@Aurora-qn2dx]

What a magical place..must visit One day.

[@curlew-3592]

I can’t count how many times ive walked up that little path to Beatrix Potters house😊 So many happy memories now including my grandchildren 😊🇬🇧

[@patriciafeeley7997]

Magic to Children and adults,treasured, and the Lake District ❤

[@magnoliabird]

So lovely would love to visit one day. Lucky creative place she was blessed to have to give back to the world. Thank you

[@terrimilavec5885]

Wonderful to see Patricia narrate this happy video …. I just love her !

[@purpleconundrum783]

Wow I just recently watched the Beatrix Potter documentary narrated by Patricia Routledge, and now this one. She (the author) is such a deep complex and fascinating human with such a rich story. The term "national treasure" is batted about perhaps too often, but Beatrix Potter? She's the real deal.

[@mariaimre9947]

Me too!! Both shows were very interesting!

[@Marc-qw5yo]

So pretty ❤

[@gwinniboots]

How lovely. A place I’ve wanted to visit for a long time. Maybe this year...

[@ts-eu6mp]

I learned how to read and to listen how I was read to by my Grandmother, who was an amazing woman. She read to al of her children in the same way and my Father naturally picked it up and read that wonderful way to my sister an myself. The intonations, the quieter parts, the slightly louder parts, the pauses and the cadence- it was ALL fabulous- and therefore, I read to my own children that way! I also read to my young students in the same way when I was privileged to teach the dear young one's. I knew it all worked because they were enthralled. I have my Dad, ny Grandmother, and I suppose her Mother and on to thank for this ability. So much fun! It brought everything to life! But Beatrix Potter did that, herself. What a wonderful woman--so brilliant, talented and far-seeing. And what she did for the land conservation, because of her wonderful books and drawings, is legendary and a lovely, philanthropic side of her, which was always there. I love her.

[@JR-_-2010]

Wonderful to see. I loved seeing it.

[@nationaltrustcharity]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@charleskletter8974]

Beautiful

[@janicesmyth1713]

I've watched three of these this is the best one. I visited Hill Top with my family nine years ago. Hope to come again . Thank you.

[@renedugarte3898]

Interesting thank you for showing us the video, well done 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@marymathis9299]

Ahhh! This was absolutely lovely but WAAAAAY too short. Would love to walk there but as Im in my 70s, living in Florida, guess that won't happen, so thank you so very, very much for this lovely visit to a home that has given us such a warm feeling of home and what that all means in a time when so many are coming "unhinged". Cheers and maybe it could happen again...???? 🥰❤👍🏻

[@gwenrobinsonbodybasedpsych6029]

Beautiful, thank you, so heartwarming. 💕

[@judithherrera9177]

Lovely house and garden !!! So much like her. Love her books

[@nationaltrustcharity]

We're glad you enjoyed it

[@EmmaRymentor]

Beautiful thank you

[@astridmanzo]

My interest in mushrooms led me to BP's biography by Linda Lear and wow... She was such a wonderful woman. So smart, productive and inspiring. I hope I can visit Hill Top and the national park one day!

[@kristenhansen5010]

Thankyou!

[@paolabueso]

What a special place! Thank you so much for sharing this. 🙌🙌🙌

[@lissettesbloom8223]

So amazing.

[@littlemisskate4254]

I absolutely love Beatrice Potter and all her wonderful characters. They just make me smile and feel wonderful. I have so many wonderful items that Beatrice potter created and about three years ago, or maybe slightly more. It was before Covid that I got to visit Hilltop farm, and also her husband’s lawyers office which, like you said, how is a lot of her paintings and of course, the world of Beatrice Potter. I absolutely loved Hilltop farm it felt like I had been transformed to this magical place, almost like I was a kid again. thank you so much for keeping all of her wonderful things just how she had it. The fact that she preserve the land so that it couldn’t be built on and was given to the National Trust to look after was just amazing. ❤❤

[@TheBlackTinkerBell]

Thank you for sharing

[@nanidogmomstevens6386]

Thanks so much! Wonderful peak! Thank you. Be blest☦️👩🏻‍🦳🇺🇸

[@zuzanasimcakova6327]

Beautiful ❤️

[@mijiyoon5575]

Lovely ...TY👍👍👍👍👍💖🌹

[@rebeccamichael626]

I've always loved reading all of the stories she wrote, and watching the videos based off of the stories. What I've never liked though is when Nickelodeon made a TV show and Colombia Pictures made two Peter Rabbit movies that didn't have anything to do with the original stories.

[@bettebyrd]

Wish he had shown the garden in the spring or summer! Lovely idea for your tour film !

[@soleaguirre100]

Gorgeous place very nice atmosphere BP was wonderful woman with a special person! admirable! greetings from Santiago Chile 🇨🇱🐇🐓🦢🐖🌷🌷🌷☀️

[@reverie3009]

An absolutely wonderful video, thank you immensely ♡

[@felipefernandes2262]

thank you

[@Helen-us1ly]

I want to live there and do watercolors.

[@jobee9545]

18 mins away from me in our car. Defo going to go there ❤️

[@richies6420]

That really was a short visit. What a beautiful place

[@six3771]

wow

[@lewiswilson3530]

It's a thumbs up from me!! Stunning watch!

[@aspasiabibas1819]

If I could give you infinity thumbs up I would gladly!

[@bluebellbeatnik4945]

Subscribing! Had no idea you had a channel. You should promote it more esp. to younger generations.

[@nationaltrustcharity]

Thank you and welcome.

[@LeahKateSingerFan]

I don’t want her house to go I find it retro if she was alive right now I would just ask her lots of questions about Peter Rabbit Non Stop It’s Unfortunate How She Died but its quite interesting in a nice way just to be going to the Peter Rabbit Museum :)

[@TheDonovanu]

Beautiful tour thank you however I would have liked to have seen more of the interior of the house.

[@nationaltrustcharity]

Hi Kitty, thank you for your feedback, we'll bear that in mind for future tours. Are there any other places you'd particularly like to see tours of?

[@TheDonovanu]

@@nationaltrustcharity Thank you very much for your reply. I would be very interested in a tour of Standen, the red house, the hall at felbrigg, Mr Straws house, Hardys cottage in Dorset, Monks house in Sussex or the Wordsworth house in Cumbria. Some of these may be online already but they are the first that spring to mind.

[@nationaltrustcharity]

Thank you Kitty. There will be a film from Standen available before Christmas and we'll add those other suggestions to our list of ideas for the New Year.

[@TheDonovanu]

@@nationaltrustcharity oh great thank you. Looking forward to it!

[@liamparrish840]

@@nationaltrustcharity hello there I'm a big fan of her books Beatrix Potter was born in Kensington London on July 28th 1866 she lived for 77 years and died three days before Christmas on December 22nd 1943 in her youth she frequently went on holiday with her family upto the lake District and sometimes Scotland as well but she and her brother regularly spent time together going for walks in the countryside both of them really liked the wilderness and enjoyed seeing different types of animals these would later become Beatrix's idea of writing books on

[@TheParentTeacherBridge]

It would be nice if the speaking audio was a bit louder. It was almost like a whisper. . .

[@alihdiacaria8566]

😀

[@nebuluna]

Why do the original paintings have to be put away for so long? Is it so they don't fade?

[@nationaltrustcharity]

Hello M, yes you are right, the watercolour pigments and also the paper they are painted on can both be damaged by too much light so we have to limit their exposure.

[@donna9373]

Are you able to say who Beatrix purchased Hill Top and Castle Cottage (Sawrey) from. I'm trying to confirm if it was my ancestors. Or can you lead me in the right direction? I amin New Zealand, thank you.

[@nationaltrustcharity]

Hello Donna Stewart, we believe Beatrix bought Hill Top from local landowner, Frederic Fowkes, on 15 November 1905. We hope that helps.

[@nathaliemila5715]

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[@heikotrojan3796]

The dolls house seems to be a replica, doesn´t it?

[@AnnaMaledonPictureBookAuthor]

It is not a replica, but rather a totally different doll house she purchased many years later from a local person. The doll house from the books belonged to Norman's niece and Beatrix's parents didn't let her go to see and draw it in person, so she drew it from the photos. Apparently, nobody knows where that doll house now is.

[@Madfunkids]

Quick question:- where do the terms 'puddleduck', 'cottontail', etc originate? You'll find that her 'genius' was in plagiarising folktales from the Black slave experience in the old American South. Has this been publicly acknowledged and credited by the Potter society and avid readers?