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Potter was the de facto estate manager for the Trust for seven years until the National Trust could afford to repurchase most of the property from her. Potter's stewardship of these farms earned her full regard, but she was not without her critics, not the least of which were her contemporaries who felt she used her wealth and the position of ...
Troutbeck Park is a farm to the north of Troutbeck village in South Lakeland, Cumbria. [1] In 1923, there was a risk of it being sold for development, so Beatrix Potter bought it and kept it as a working farm. [2]
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She went on to buy considerable tracts of land nearby, though she never owned the castle itself. When Potter died in 1943, she left 4,000 acres of land and fourteen farms to the care of the National Trust. [8] In 1929 Wray Castle and 64 acres (260,000 m 2) of land were given to the National Trust by Sir Noton and Lady Barclay, the owners at ...
Between 1885 and 1907, Beatrix Potter spent her summer holidays at Lingholm, where she wrote some of her best-known stories. [3] Beatrix credited the Lingholm Kitchen Garden as her original inspiration for Mr McGregor's Garden in The Tale of Peter Rabbit .
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Beatrix Potter was a cousin of the family and was a frequent visitor to the hall from the 1890s onwards. One wing of the hall was gutted by fire in February 1942 but rebuilt after World War II, retaining the external Tudor brickwork with 1950s interior design. The hall was first opened to the public in 1955 by Ulla, Lady Hyde Parker.
Cuba’s military created Almest in 1994 to “provide real estate and leasing services to entities of the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces” and act as “principal investor” for ...