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Beatrix Potter’s Hill Top Farm

23.4 miles from Low Briery · nearest town Ambleside

Beatrix Potter’s 17th-century farmhouse: a time-capsule of her life. Bought in 1905 with proceeds from her first book, the Tale of Peter Rabbit, she used Hill Top itself and the surrounding countryside as inspiration for many of her subsequent books.

Full of her favourite things, this house appears as if Beatrix had just stepped out for a walk. Every room contains a reference to a picture in a ‘tale’.

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A warm base for wet days

Come back to a hot shower and somewhere comfortable to dry off. Self catering lodges, cabins and riverside pods minutes from Keswick.