Lake District is famous for many people Beatrix Potter appreciated the area more than most after holidaying their with her parents for many years. With the success from her books She made her home in the lake District. She created many of her characters whilst in the lakes you can visit the Beatrix Potter museum in Bowness on Windermere and her home located at Hill Top located a few miles from the museum at Sawrey. Hill top is now part of the National trust Seven of her books are based in or around Hill Top. Tom Kitten and Samuel Whiskers lived there. Hill Top is still as it was then, and is now the most visited literary shrine in the Lake District.

When she died on 22 December 1943, Beatrix Potter left fourteen farms and 4000 acres of land to the National Trust, together with her flocks of Herdwick sheep