Peter Rabbit

I met Beatrix Potter at her Hill Top house.(She died in 1943)

Vegie garden - Mr Macgregor's garden?

 This is where she wrote and illustrated many of her little books. If you walk around the house and garden and the village, you can see many of the locations featured in her  books.

She was quite the business woman. She understood that merchandizing the characters of her books would be popular and increase her income. Here are some early tiny china figures of her characters.

She was a London child but became a very successful farmer and breeder of Herdwick sheep which were beginning to die out as a breed  but are now every where in the Lakes. This fellow at her house was telling everyone about the sheep.

Beatrix also purchased lots of land and farms which she bequeathed to the National Trust to preserve the natural beauty and the old ways of life, including:

Tarn Hows

 The gazebo in the Monk Coniston estate. There is also a manor house, large walled garden and a tree collection which includes an incredibly rare Australian woolemi pine, thought to be extinct until just a few years ago.

There is much more to Beatrix Potter than Peter Rabbit.