On 13th May 1888 Beatrix Potter, aged 22, recorded a train journey to Machynlleth in her diary, complaining how it took four hours to go from Shrewsbury to Machynlleth. She described Machynlleth as a wretched town as hardly anyone could speak English.
Beatrix was more complimentary of the countryside, which she described as beautiful, and the Welsh people who seemed to her to be a pleasant intelligent race, but she also thought they would be difficult to live with.
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