Guides to Lake District, Beatrix Potter’s Hill Top

Description

Includes a colorful vintage pictorial guide to the beautiful Lake District, the mountainous corner of northwestern England, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, famous for its lakes, forests and mountains (containing all the land in England over 3,000 feet, including Scafell Pike, the highest mountain in that country), an exceptional area closely associated with certain writers (William Wordsworth, Beatrix Potter, John Ruskin) (from Photo Precision Limited, circa 1970); and a really cool official guidebook for Hill Top, the working farm of beloved children’s book writer Beatrix Potter (
The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, Tom Kitten
), who left her estate to the National Trust, and was responsible for preserving much of the land that would later form the Lakes District National Park (from the National Trust, 2016).