Animals return to meadows which inspired Beatrix Potter after 25-year restoration project
After many decades Beatrix Potter is still a name to conjure with when it comes to the English countryside as this story reveals. It tells us:
When
country mouse Timmy Willie describes his rural home in Beatrix
Potter’s The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, he enthuses over the “roses
and pinks and pansies – no noise except the birds and the bees, and
the lambs in the meadow.”
Now those meadows, which inspired Potter to create her magical world of animal adventures, have been restored by The National Trust, and the creatures that one resided there have returned.
The fields which surrounded Hill Top Farm, near Sawrey, in the Lake District, were abundant with wildlife when Potter moved to the area in 1905.
But they were ploughed up during the first and second world wars under schemes such as Dig for Victory, organised by the Ministry of Agriculture…