Garden gate featured in Beatrix Potter tales at Hill Top, Near Sawrey, UK, Lake District

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Garden gate at Hill Top, home of Beatrix Potter in Near Sawrey Lake District of the UK. Cottage featured in The Tale of Tom Kitten and The Tale of Jemima Puddle Duck as both were set in and around Hill Top. Beatrix Potter who wrote the much loved Peter Rabbit children's tales is a well known character of the Lake District. She invested the money earned from her little books buying Lake District farms and was a leading conservationist of her time On her death she left 14 farms and over 4000 acres of countryside to the National Trust

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Location: Hill Top, Near Sawrey, Lake District, UK
Photo credit: © Linda Sikes / Alamy / Afripics
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