A ‘wonderful’ Lake District country house hotel which was once the holiday home of children’s author Beatrix Potter is going on the market for nearly £1.4m. The Georgian property, dating back to 1742, ...

The Lake District farmhouse home of famous author, Beatrix Potter, is being transformed into a storybook Christmas wonderland.

Potter’s writing retreat in northwest England, in the Lake District of Cumbria, is neither a lily pad nor a hollow log. Instead, Hill Top—the home she bought in 1905 largely with royalties from her ...