Potter's World

View over Hill Top Farm and Sawrey, 1905. Beatrix Potter bought Hill Top farm in 1905 as her first step towards an independent life. The garden at Ees Wyke, Sawrey, 1902

Beatrix Potter bought Hill Top farm in 1905 as her first step towards an independent life. Beatrix Potter's sketchbooks, many of them held by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and by The National Trust, contain many landscape drawings of the significant places in her life.

Some were even used as backgrounds for the illustrations in the Peter Rabbit™ books.

(Right) The Newlands Valley, from Beatrix Potter's sketchbook of the Derwentwater area (1903).

Beatrix later used this as a background for The Tale of Mrs.
Tiggy-Winkle.