Hill Top is a 17th-century house in Near Sawrey near Hawkshead, in the English county of Cumbria, the house was once the home of which English children's author, also natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as those in "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"?
Hill Top, Cumbria Hill Top is a 17th-century house in Near Sawrey near Hawkshead, in the English county of Cumbria. It is an example of Lakeland vernacular architecture with random stone walls and slate roof. The house was once the home of children's author and illustrator Beatrix Potter who left it to the National Trust. It is a Grade II* listed building. It is open to the public as a writer's house museum, shown as Beatrix Potter herself would have known it. The address is Hill Top, Near Sawrey, Hawkshead, Ambleside, LA22 0LF.
Henrietta Batson Henrietta Mary Batson "née" Blackman (1859–1943) was an English writer whose interest in the countryside and rural people was an important theme in her novels and much of her non-fiction. She often published as Mrs. Stephen Batson, or sometimes as H.M. Batson.