Hawkshead and Hill Top: Beatrix Potter's Farm
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Hawkshead and Hill Top: Beatrix Potter's Farm
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Beatrix Potter owned the 17th-century farmhouse of Hill Top at Near Sawrey and left it to the National Trust; it is shown as she herself would have known it, with the garden kept in the style of her illustrations. Two miles north, Hawkshead is a village of whitewashed alleys where Wordsworth went to grammar school, and her husband William Heelis's old solicitor's office, the Beatrix Potter Gallery until 2022, is now Tabitha Twitchit's Bookshop.
Required Activities
1
of 4
Go through Hill Top at Near Sawrey, kept as Beatrix Potter left it
2
of 4
Browse Tabitha Twitchit's Bookshop in William Heelis's old solicitor's office in Hawkshead
3
of 4
Walk the alleys of Hawkshead and see the grammar school Wordsworth attended
4
of 4
Walk round Esthwaite Water between the two villages
Go through Hill Top at Near Sawrey, kept as Beatrix Potter left it
Browse Tabitha Twitchit's Bookshop in William Heelis's old solicitor's office in Hawkshead
Walk the alleys of Hawkshead and see the grammar school Wordsworth attended
Walk round Esthwaite Water between the two villages
Before you go
Hill Top closes for the winter; check the National Trust's season dates and book a timed ticket.
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