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YEWDALE GARDENS IN an area of Estover awash with names inspired by Lake District locations, we find Yewdale Gardens.
Probably the most famous aspect of Yewdale is the fact that children's writer, Beatrix Potter, Peter Rabbit's creator, bought up over 4,000 acres of land in that part of the world and, in her will published on her death three days before the Christmas of 1943, bequeathed almost all of her property, land, cottages and farms, to the National Trust. Miss Potter spent a great many years towards the end of her life extending her farm property and raising sheep. Foremost among those farms were Yew Tree Farm and High Yewdale, at Coniston, the latter being a fully working farm and the one selected by the Trust for the Queen to visit when she cam to Coniston in 1985.See the full content of this document
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