Near Sawrey and Far Sawrey are two neighbouring villages in the Furness area of Cumbria. They are located in the Lake District between the town of Hawkshead and the lake of Windermere. The two lie on the B5285, which runs from a car ferry across Windermere one mile to the east of the villages. Furness is a peninsula in north-west England. ... Cumbria is a county in the North West region of England. ... The panorama across Eskdale from Ill Crag. ... Hawkshead is a town in the Lake District, England. ... Windermere from the north. ... A train ferry is a ship designed to carry railway vehicles. ... A mile is any of a number of units of distance, each in the magnitude of 1–10 km. ...

The two are famous for their association with Beatrix Potter. She lived at Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey, first arriving as a child in 1896. A number of sites in the viallges were used in her books such as The Tale of Tom Kitten, The Fairy Caravan and The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck. ʔ Potters illustration of her anthropomorphic rabbits — in this case the married cousins, Benjamin and Flopsy Bunny (with Peter Rabbit in the background), from The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies Beatrix Potter, or Helen Beatrix Potter (July 28, 1866 – December 22, 1943) was a British childrens book author and... Hill Top is a house in Cumbria, England, which once belonged to the childrens writer Beatrix Potter, who wrote the Peter Rabbit books. ... 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The Tale of Tom Kitten is a book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. ...

The villages date from at least the 14th century, when Near Sawrey was known as 'Sourer', becoming 'Narr Sawrey' by the 17th century (suggesting that Far Sawrey must have been around by this time). They now contain a number of small facilities such as a post office and local pubs. This 14th-century statue from south India depicts the gods Shiva (on the left) and Uma (on the right). ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... Small-town post office and town hall in Lockhart, Alabama A post office is a facility (in most countries, a government one) where the public can purchase postage stamps for mailing correspondence or merchandise, and also drop off or pick up packages or other special-delivery items. ... An amusingly named pub (the Old New Inn) at Bourton-on-the-Water, in the Cotswold Hills of South West England A pub in the Haymarket area of Edinburgh, Scotland A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada...

External links

• Near Sawrey at the Cumrbia Directory
• Far Sawrey at the Cumbria Directory