Windermere

We stopped at the town of Bowness-on-Windermere for lunch and to take a cruise on the lake. The World of Beatrix Potter museum is in the town, but her home and farm were on the opposite side of Windermere in the village of Near Sawrey. Beatrix was the J.K. Rowling of her day and used her vast wealth to purchase numerous large farms in the lake district. She had no children, so she left all of the land to the National Trust and remains to this day the single largest donor to what had become Lake District National Park.Read more