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So you think you know Beatrix Potter? 28 July Beatrix Potter’s Birthday This year we’re celebrating what would have been the 150th birthday of this fascinating author, illustrator, businesswoman and farmer. She left an amazing legacy in her beloved Lake District. Make your own discoveries Discover by visiting some of the places that inspired her and you’ll begin to understand her love Beatrix for the Lakes. #thanksBeatrix #Beatrix150 Start your journey of discovery 1 Hill Top 2 Beatrix Potter Gallery 3 Wray Castle 1 4 6 The World of Beatrix Potter Cockermouth 5 The Old Laundry Theatre Penrith A66 Workington A66 18 6 Wordsworth House & Garden A595 7 A66 Allan Bank 8 Lindeth Howe 10 Keswick 9 9 Derwent Water A591 10 Lingholm 2 Whitehaven 11 Belmount Hall A591 A592 A595 12 The Armitt Museum 13 Yew Tree Farm 16 14 Mountain Goat Tours Grasmere 15 Windermere Lake Cruises 7 3 16 12 Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway Ambleside 17 Dalegarth for Boot Station 18 A595 11 Sawrey House Hotel 17 2 b A591 13 Hawkshead Windermere Derwent Water 9 Coniston 14 4 3 4 5 16 Ravenglass 13 1 15 Walk the lakeshore where cheeky squirrel ‘Nutkin’ 18 8 threw acorns at Beatrix. Climb Cat Bells where Lucie tracked Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, and visit the A5084 A592 island that was the home of Old Brown, the fierce owl with a taste for mischievous squirrels. Beatrix spent nine summers sketching the landscape of Derwent Water. You can walk A5092 A595 A590 in her footsteps and visit Brandelhow, St Herbert’s 7 A590 Island and Cat Bells. They’re all free to visit, so come and be inspired. 9 10 8 11 Ulverston Grange- over-Sands 6 Two great ways to explore, are by Boat and ‘Goat’. Try the short boat ride from bustling Bowness www.nationaltrust.org.uk/borrowdale Sit back and enjoy the views she loved, on an iconic to Ferry House, where you can connect up steamer, traditional launch on Windermere, or from to Hill Top by Goat or a 20 minute walk. The National Trust is a registered charity, no.205846 one of the many Mountain Goat minibus tours. Plan your whole visit on Go Lakes.co.uk © National Trust Images Beatrix PotterTM©Frederick Warne & Co.2016 Squirrel Nutkin - © Frederick Warne & Co, 1903, 2002 www.mountain-goat.co.uk www.windermere-lakecruises.co.uk www.golakes.co.uk Design by Capradesign.co.uk The Armitt Library & Museum 12 2 1 Beatrix Potter Gallery Hill Top Beatrix Potter was a member Hill Top was Beatrix Potter’s most beloved place… her spiritual of the Armitt almost from its This year’s exhibition ‘Realism and Romance’ explores Beatrix’s home and where she found inspiration for some of her most iconic founding in 1912. A major love of nature and her lifelong inspiration from the natural world. tales. What better year to visit than in 2016… this year you can take benefactor she donated her Highlights of the exhibition includes original illustrations from a unique showcase tour of Hill Top, join a birthday picnic or let the books, paintings, and personal ‘The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck’ and ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’; real Mr McGregor show you around the pretty country garden. first edition copies of the some of Beatrix’s sketchbooks and excerpts from her coded journal. The 7 July also marks 70 years since the National Trust opened little books. On her death in Book onto a special Curator Tour for a closer look. Hill Top to visitors, so there’s double celebrations that month! 1943 she also bequeathed her portfolios of over 450 exquisite botanical drawings and watercolours. No other collection, private or public, holds anything comparable in quality or numbers. The Armitt is proud to be the custodian of her scientific legacy. Our exhibition ‘Beatrix Potter: Image and Reality’ draws together many fascinating items from our extensive archive to explore the life and legacy of this remarkable woman. www.armitt.com www.nationaltrust.org.uk/beatrix-potter-gallery-and- www.nationaltrust.org.uk/hill-top Wray Castle 3 hawkshead Wray Castle was the first place The World of Beatrix Potter 4 Beatrix Potter stayed in the Belmount Hall 11 The World of Beatrix Potter is a vibrant family attraction in Lake District, when she was Bowness-on-Windermere. Visitors can explore the enchanting just sixteen. It was here she Belmount Hall is a fine world that Beatrix Potter created in her books as all 23 of the discovered the Lakes countryside Georgian House in the famous stories are brought to life, recreating the beautiful Lake and crucially where she met Lake District with superb District countryside complete with sights, sounds and smells. Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley, views of Esthwaite Water, This summer visitors can also see the new stage show, her life-long mentor and friend. with Gummers How in ‘Where is Peter Rabbit?’ in The Old Laundry Theatre. Today the castle is the perfect the far distance and the Inspired by the stories, this Beatrix Potter musical adventure place for family fun indoors Troutbeck Valley. brings to life favourite characters in a not to be missed visual and out. Special guided tours Beatrix Potter and her spectacular. Why not book a special ticket package including uncover the hidden mysteries husband acquired the Belmount estate in 1938 from her friend breakfast or afternoon tea with Peter Rabbit himself! of the landscaped grounds and Rebekah Owen. The house has been brought up to modern the picturesque tradition the standards with displays of antique furniture. We are offering Lake District is so famous for. upmarket packages to include a champagne and canapé reception on arrival, accommodation with breakfast and dinner, www.nationaltrust.org.uk/wray-castle private visits to some of the properties connected with Beatrix Potter and a presentation on her history and connection with Belmount Hall. Allan Bank 7 www.belmounthall.com Make yourself comfortable in the former home of National Trust www.hop-skip-jump.com co-founder Canon Rawnsley. 10 This year we’re looking beyond Beatrix Potter at Lingholm Beatrix Potter’s work as a The Old Laundry Theatre 5 children’s author and exploring the inspiration she took from her www.oldlaundrytheatre.co.uk enduring friendship with Rawnsley. Discover how his views on preserving the natural beauty of Lake District had a lasting effect Lindeth Howe 8 on Potter, inspiring her to go on and preserve special places in Lakes from being irreparably ruined by development. Lindeth Howe was built as a www.nationaltrust.org.uk/allan-bank-and-grasmere summer holiday home for a wealthy mill owner in 1879 in a 28 acre estate commanding fine Yew Tree Farm 13 views over Lake Windermere. The Lingholm Estate centres around a magnificent Victorian Come and have a look around The mill owner rented the house Yew Tree Farm cottage, which mansion on the western shore of Derwentwater and was a Lakeland out to friends for holidays, amongst Beatrix Potter owned; and have holiday home of the Potter family who rented the house for many them was the Potter family. From 1902 to 1913, Beatrix Potter a look around at some of her holidays between 1885 and 1907. wrote her famous children’s stories and for two of these stories, furnishings and letters. During her time there, Beatrix sketched and painted the grounds, Timmy Tiptoes and Pigling Bland, she illustrated them whilst Beatrix was a champion of the woods and animal life, and most famously; wrote Squirrel Nutkin staying at Lindeth Howe. We have copies of some correspondence Herdwick sheep breed a tradition here. She also credited the Lingholm Kitchen garden as her original from this period. We also have some original photographic plates we continue today. There are inspiration for Mr McGregor’s Garden in ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’. of pictures & prints of the house taken by her father. demonstrations and cooking tips In June 2016 we will open a new café, and walled garden reinstated and a tasty hogget BBQ. Guided on the site of the old kitchen gardens. Entry is free and allows www.lindeth-howe.co.uk farm tours offer a chance to find public access onto the estate for the first time in many years. out more, and of course join in We also operate holiday lets and private weddings. with the feeding of the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway 16 17 Herdwick lambs. www.thelingholmestate.co.uk and Dalegarth for Boot Station Our beautiful barn will host professional artists Jo McGrath, Enjoy a seven mile steam railway journey from the coast to the David Sims, Sally Bamber and Wordsworth House & Garden 6 mountains on-board Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway. This award Tina Balmer in an exhibition Jo McGrath winning narrow gauge heritage railway traverses the coastal exploring ‘Herdwicks and their Yew Tree landscape’. Two Bad Mice: Mischief in estuaries, through ancient woodlands to the foothills of England’s There’ll be themed gifts, homeware and accessories and of Beatrix Potter’s Tales: a major highest mountains, the Scafells (3,209ft). Keep an eye out for course our Herdwick meat for sale. Every day from 2-10 July. exhibition of original illustrations Herdwick, an iconic Lakeland breed and a favourite of Beatrix. Light refreshments by Jumping Jenny. showing until the end of June. At Dalegarth for Boot station, there is a National Trust Beatrix Open Day dates for the Farm: 2 and 9 July. Beatrix Potter and a Love of Potter exhibition in the lower floor of the café for visitors to the Northern Lakes runs from www.yewtree-farm.com enjoy, with information about this famous breed and discover the Saturday 16 July to Sunday story of Beatrix Potter’s only working farm in Eskdale, Penny Hill.
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