Experience Beatrix Potter's Lake District | V&A

[@adel3529]

Ive not had the best of days today, but this short film has just calmed me down. The sounds are so beautiful.

[@karenharris929]

Wow, incredible. How blessed are we to have this in our doorstep ❤

[@flanthief]

The Beatrix Potter exhibit at the VA was an almost life affirming experience. Never have I felt so connected to someone I have never met. Her books always felt special but to actually feel like I walked through her life was beyond words

[@danisehetland3378]

What a fantastic and heartwarming film!!

[@kaywoodward9283]

I lived in Far Sawrey, next to Near Sawrey, until the age of 20. I am so glad of my early life with all the seasons and links to the farming year. It is stunning to live in too. The video took me right back to being a child again. I went to see the exhibition at the V & A, where bits of this video are shown on a big screen. Well worth the admission fee. There are lots of her water colours from different collections.

[@priscilla4822]

Thank you so much for this, I knew it was picturesque but had no idea how stunningly beautiful.

[@weronoyume]

The most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen I wish I lived in a place like that 🥺

[@northscott]

My favourite place on earth. We're very lucky to have The Lake District within an hour of our home. It changes with the seasons and never fails to impress us with it's magnificence and beauty.

[@obcl8569]

BREATHTAKING. What an absolute GIFT this film is. The perspective it gives is incredible. What magnificent places.

[@chefskiss6179]

I've had the honour and privilege to hike around this beautiful area... no words to describe it. THANK you Beatrix Potter for your conservation efforts.

[@suzannefronzaglio2427]

One stunning scene after another, just a beautiful area this Lake District. Then at the 8:42 timestamp.....I had to freeze frame the video. And just stare. Wow! Just speechless looking at that landscape and view. What a lovely place to be. Wish I could visit one day and experience this beauty first hand.

[@sharonzotoff3975]

Stunningly beautiful photography. I could watch that for hours.

[@alexthepensmith6101]

I was fortunate enough to go and see the Beatrix Potter exhibition at the V&A when it was on. This film played on a loop on a big wall projection at the end of the exhibition and no word of a lie, I sat there watching it for a solid half hour / 45 minutes and forgot where I was. Was so meditative. Want to go there myself properly now ❤

[@carolinaalvarez3912]

Absolutely stunning!!!. Love from Argentina.

[@Savvywaystosave]

Stunning! Hard to believe such a magical place exists here. A perfect setting for so many types of art to be drawn from. Incredible work capturing such beauty. This is somewhere now on my list of places to visit and I’m very much looking forward to the exhibition

[@nomdeplume2213]

Absolutely gorgeous!!! Wow... i had no idea north England was so breathtaking

[@rsmith6366]

The Lake District and London are the two biggest hot spots in Britain for foreign tourists.

[@tummy_fritters]

I have an idea of England as a very manicured place that has been smoothed out over centuries. I'm from Canada and haven't visited England (yet!). This video shows that there's still rugged beauty there, and it makes me want to visit all the more.

[@londonhodnet4079]

Don’t forget Scotland

[@tummy_fritters]

@@londonhodnet4079 I'm sure I never will once I visit :) I really would love to see Edinburgh, and I have no doubt there's so much more. One day...

[@rsmith6366]

@@tummy_fritters Went to Edinburgh in 2019. Definitely need to pack your walking boots, because it's an uphill climb, literally.

[@rsmith6366]

Less than 1% of the island is 'built on', with England being at 2%. This decreases even more when the tide is out. You really don't have to go far to find a field.

[@OpaqueDragon4]

Whoever shot this video - give them an oscar.

[@mcquaigsmith13]

Beautiful place- it has inspired a lot of art and literature… easy to see why. ❤️✨

[@russlus]

This was mesmerising in the exhibition & a really calming treat, also encouraging a visit to that area later this year

[@jarrodwb8422]

This is phenomenal! Thank you for encapsulating so many memories (founded or otherwise), and for allowing us to enjoy revisiting them since travel during this pandemic is obsolete. Please stay healthy! 🐰

[@voraciousreader3341]

I must have lived in the Lake District in another life....ever since I saw the first picture of it decades ago, it’s looked like home. My favorite episode of the David Suchet “Poirot” series is the one called, “Dumb Witness,” bc it’s set there in and around the most beautiful home and everything feels so familiar to me. I do love it so!

[@Leornianæfre]

It’s like something that came from the mind of Tolkien himself. I’ve been when I was less than a year old and long have i desired to return to this majestic landscape.

[@donaldauguston9740]

Stunning! I am just now reading "Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life" by Marta McDowell. If you have not read it or even heard of it, go out and buy it. It's much more than a mere biography (of which there are dozens). It's a time-capsule of her day-to-day gardening life; what she planted, where she planted it, and who gave her plants for her beds. It's marvelous for the gardeners among us.

[@mindys3581]

Yes, I've read it and it's wonderful!

[@SMElder-od5cl]

If I could return, I would skip the very dark house tour and just enjoy the garden. I saw an English robin, and bunnies in the orchard.

[@sweb23879]

Thank you, my cats found this video very fascinating 😸

[@vamuseum]

Always a pleasure to engage with our feline audience

[@amyb837]

Breathtaking images.

[@EmilyPlein]

I have had visions of this place my whole life.

[@ed-schramm]

oh how lovely.

[@mariumortellaro119]

Wow beautiful 👍👏

[@Kamjitus]

The sights and sounds of a landscape that inspired the Redwall series.

[@paustinheaton]

Beautiful!

[@brentonjoseph]

Def belongs in the asmr playlist 😌

[@yorosa]

Heaven

[@mch12311969]

I want to live in this video

[@daniadejonghe4980]

wonderful

[@trojanette8345]

Was the Lake District a, Nat'l Park when BP was alive, or was it in the domain of 'public land'?

[@rsmith6366]

It became a National Park in 1951. Beatrix Potter died in 1943.