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Beatrix Potter was an author, illustrator, businesswoman, conservationist and farmer. She left an amazing legacy in her beloved . Discover Follow in her footsteps and make your own discoveries by visiting some of the places that inspired her and you’ll begin to understand Beatrix her love for the Lakes.

1 Hill Top Start your journey of discovery 2 3 1 4 The World of Beatrix Potter Attraction 5 Penrith 16 The Old Laundry Theatre A66 A66 6 Lindeth Howe A595 A66 7 Derwent Water 8 Lingholm 8 Keswick 7 9 Belmount Hall A591 10 The Armitt Museum 2 11 Yew Tree Farm A591 A592 A595 14 12 Mountain Goat Tours 13 Lake Cruises 14 & Eskdale Railway 15 Dalegarth for Boot Station 3 10 16 Sawrey House Hotel

9 7 A595 3 Derwent Water 15 2 b A591 11 Windermere Walk the lakeshore where cheeky squirrel ‘Nutkin’ Coniston 12 threw acorns at Beatrix. Climb where 4 4 5 14 Ravenglass 11 1 13 Lucie tracked Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, and visit the 16 6 island that was the home of Old Brown, the fierce owl with a taste for mischievous squirrels. A5084 A592 Beatrix spent eleven summers sketching the landscape of Derwent Water. You can walk in her footsteps and visit Brandelhow, St Herbert’s Island and Cat Bells. They’re all A595 A5092 A590 A590 free to visit, so come and be inspired. 6 13 7 8 9

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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 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 Squirrel Nutkin - © Frederick Warne & Co, 1903, 2002 Design by Capradesign.co.uk www.mountain-goat.co.uk www.windermere-lakecruises.co.uk www.golakes.co.uk Hill Top 1 The & Museum 10 Hill Top was Beatrix’s most beloved place…her spiritual home and Beatrix Potter Gallery 2 where she found inspiration for some of her most iconic tales. Beatrix Potter was a member Full of her precious things, Hill Top encapsulates her passion that of the Armitt almost from its The Beatrix Potter Gallery is the only place you can step into the went on to dominate her life, preserving the landscape and culture founding in 1912. A major pages of your favourite Beatrix Potter tales, as you get up close to of the Lakes. From traditional Lakeland furniture, to trophies for benefactor she donated her her original artwork. books, paintings, and personal her prize-winning , Hill Top represents her legacy. This year’s exhibition ‘That Corner of the Lakes’, takes a closer first edition copies of the The colourful garden is just as Beatrix knew it. Today, we continue look, past and present, at Hill Top and the places Beatrix loved and little books. On her death in in Beatrix’s footsteps, working in a changing world to conserve the sought to protect through her pioneering conservation work. The 1943 she also bequeathed her Lake District for ever, for everyone. illustrations and photos included in the exhibition feature scenes portfolios of over 450 exquisite which have changed little since Beatrix Potter arrived here on her botanical drawings and first Lake District holiday in 1882. watercolours. No other collection, private or public, The Gallery is the former solicitor’s office of Beatrix’s husband, holds anything comparable in William Heelis and is a unique opportunity to see inside one of quality or numbers. The Armitt Hawkshead’s most historic and quirky buildings. 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/hill-top Wray Castle 3 4 Wray Castle was the first The World of Beatrix Potter Attraction place Beatrix Potter stayed The World of Beatrix Potter is a vibrant family attraction in Bow- in the Lake District, when ness-on-Windermere. Visitors can explore the enchanting world she was just sixteen. It that Beatrix Potter created in her books as all 23 of the famous was here she discovered stories are brought to life, recreating the beautiful Lake District the Lakes countryside and www.nationaltrust.org.uk/beatrix-potter-gallery-and- countryside complete with sights, sounds and smells. crucially where she met hawkshead Canon Hardwicke This summer visitors can also see the smash hit musical, ‘Where Rawnsley, her life-long is ?’ in The Old Laundry Theatre. Inspired by the mentor and friend. 9 stories, this Beatrix Potter musical adventure brings to life favourite Belmount Hall characters in a not to be missed visual spectacular. Why not book Today the castle is the Now an exclusive use a special ticket package including breakfast or afternoon tea with perfect place for family fun events venue for private Peter Rabbit himself! indoors and out. Special dinners and house parties, guided tours uncover the Belmount Hall and the hidden mysteries of the Belmount estate were landscaped grounds and acquired by Beatrix Potter the picturesque tradition in 1938 from her friend the Lake District is so Rebekah Owen. The hall famous for. is a fine Grade II Listed Georgian House in the Lake District with superb views south towards and over www.nationaltrust.org.uk/wray-castle Windermere to Gummers How. It has been carefully renovated and brought up to modern standards in keeping www.hop-skip-jump.com Yew Tree Farm 11 with the original features. Yew Tree Farm is one of the most We are offering upmarket packages for 10 – 40 guests to 5 The Old Laundry Theatre iconic farms in the Lake District include a champagne and canapé reception on arrival with www.oldlaundrytheatre.co.uk and featured as ‘Hill Top’ in the a talk on Beatrix Potter’s connection with Belmount Hall, a movie ‘’. It was owned three-course dinner and bed and breakfast accommodation. by Beatrix Potter and is still home Lindeth Howe 6 to many of her furnishings. Today www.belmounthall.com 8 self-catering guests can stay in the Lindeth Howe was built as a farmhouse. summer holiday home for a Jon Watson and Jo McGrath farm Beatrix Potter at Lingholm wealthy mill owner in 1879 in Yew Tree using traditional meth- a 28 acre estate commanding fine ods recognisable from Beatrix’s views over Lake Windermere. time. Award winning Heritage Meats Herdwick Hogget and The mill owner rented the house Belted Galloway Beef are available out to friends for holidays, amongst from Yew Tree’s on farm butchery, them was the Potter family. From 1902 to 1913, Beatrix Potter and online at heritagemeats.co.uk wrote her famous children’s stories and for two of these stories, Jo is an animal artist, renowned for Timmy Tiptoes and Pigling Bland, she illustrated them whilst her drawings and paintings of local animals Jo McGrath staying at Lindeth Howe. We have copies of some correspondence and wildlife. Fine art cards and prints of Yew Tree animals from this period. We also have some original photographic plates are available to buy direct from the farm or online at of pictures & prints of the house taken by her father. jomcgrath.co.uk. Her work is also available from various Lake District galleries www.lindeth-howe.co.uk and online. The Lingholm Kitchen serves a range of locally sourced foods www.yewtree-farm.com and artisan breads and cakes made in our own bakery. Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway 14 15 With a gift shop and art gallery the café has a stunning 100 foot glass wall looking down on the octagonal walled garden that sits and Dalegarth for Boot Station 13 on the same spot as the old kitchen gardens which Beatrix Potter Enjoy a seven mile steam railway journey from the coast to the credited as her original inspiration for Mr McGregor’s garden in Link the many Beatrix Potter inspired attractions and venues mountains on-board Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway. This award . by taking one of a number of sailings from Windermere Lake winning narrow gauge heritage railway traverses the coastal Within the walled garden is an outdoor gallery dedicated to the Cruises. With over 100 sailings each day from many departure work of Beatrix Potter in the area, much of it , through ancient woodlands to the foothills of ’s points, there is something for everyone. highest mountains, the (3,209ft). undertaken during the ten summer holidays she spent at Lingholm. Hop on a boat from Bowness and on Windermere to the Entry to the garden is free and the café is open daily from 9am Keep an eye out for Herdwick sheep, an iconic Lakeland breed western shore to climb up to Hill Top House and Gardens. until 5pm or dusk in winter. and a favourite of Beatrix. From the end of the line at Dalegarth Walk along the shore of Windermere to Wray Castle walking for Boot station you can take a walk and discover Beatrix Potter’s in the footsteps of Beatrix Potter. www.thelingholmestate.co.uk only working farm in Eskdale, Penny Hill. It is still a working farm, Sailing 364 days a year, with cruises ranging from 30 minutes with the main business being Herdwick Sheep – sticking to their to 3 hours, there is no better way to explore Windermere Sawrey House 16 Beatrix Potter roots! than by boat! Sawrey House is set in the picturesque hamlet of Near Sawrey, the once home of Beatrix Potter. Sawrey House is found next door to Hill Top and is an ideal place to start your Beatrix Potter journey. Stay in comfortable and relaxing bedrooms and dine with delicious local food on our lunchtime and evening menus. Be inspired by the stunning views that Beatrix loved. www.ravenglass-railway.co.uk www.windermere-lakecruises.co.uk www.sawreyhouse.com