Beatrix Potter

The Queen's English

Hill Top, Near Sawrey, Hawkshead, Lake District, Cumbria, England.

The home of Beatrix Potter- This 17th-century farmhouse in the village of Near Sawrey is where Potter lived, wrote and based many of her best-loved stories.

Hill Top is a time capsule of Beatrix Potter's life. Full of her favourite things, the house appears as if Beatrix had just stepped out for a walk; “Hill Top is to be presented to my visitors,” she stated [to the National Trust] in her will, “as if I had just gone out and they had just missed me. Every room contains a reference to a picture in a 'Tale'. Beatrix used Hill Top and its surroundings as inspiration for many of her 'little books'

📷 National Trust Images/Joe Cornish