Hannah Hauxwell, who has died aged 91, was living a harsh existence as a hill farmer in the Yorkshire Dales, without electricity or running water, when the 1973 television documentary Too Long a Winter turned her into a national celebrity. She was first seen leading her cow into its shed as a blizzard raged at Low Birk Hatt farm, 1,000ft up in Baldersdale. Hauxwell was an only child, born in the North Riding of Yorkshire at Sleetburn, Baldersdale, where her parents, William and Lydia (nee Tallentire), rented a farm. Three years later they bought Low Birk Hatt. The family suffered hard times during the Depression. When Hannah was six, her father died and her Uncle Tommy took over the running of the farm. She attended Baldersdale school up to the age of 14 and when her uncle died - three years after the death of her mother - she was left to farm alone. After settling in Cotherstone, she became a part of the community, attending the Methodist chapel and joining an over-60s club. She moved to a care home in Barnard Castle in 2016, and to a nursing home in West Auckland, Co Durham, last year. • Hannah Bayles Tallentire Hauxwell, farmer, born 1 August 1926; died 30 January 2018. God bless you Nannah, I hope youve returned to your family.
What a innocent soul she was , I remember watching the documentary many years ago and like many people was moved to tears by the humility and kindness of this woman. When you see people today , their quick speech , gossiping , critical restless minds , never happy , never content , and you see a person like Hannah Hauxwell , even royalty were respectful in her presence, that level of purity demands it .
Thank goodness there are local and federal Trusts to save some of the soul of a nation. Hannah.'s farm and meadow give visitors the chance to time travel back a century. So glad it is being preserved, and that her spirit can walk beside the river, like she said she would.
I never forgot watching the documentary over 30 years ago when it was shown on TV .....it has stayed with me all my life, and the likes of Miss Hauxwell we shall not see again..... god bless you, you were an inspiration.
I remember watching over 30 years ago it brought many memories of some of my people honest honourable humble and pure it is people like henna that teach us about what s really important care for the land animals. And a profound respect for people one of godsspecial chosen
@@SuzLa1 it wasn’t a tv producer. It was a friend of one that came across her while out walking one day. He contacted his friend Barry Cockcroft who went out to find her for a documentary he was planning.
I found a book about Hannah many years ago and was so taken by her life. I live in Whistler, BC and hike the long distance paths in the UK every summer. This year I'll be walking the Bracken Way in the Yorkshire Dales but will take a detour and visit Hannah's Meadow to pay my respects. Yes, rest in peace, dear Hannah. >
Hannah, you gave this world so much. Your story will never end. You can finally rest in peace and be reunited with your family that you loved and missed for so long. May God rest you.
Fabulous photographs/"Lark Ascending"by Vaughn Williams(my favourite classical music piece)+Hannah Hauxwell/Low Birk Hatt Farm-forever beautiful and blessed for all time.xxx
What a beautiful lady Hannah was, Rest in peace Hannah, you may not have realized when you were alive the good your were doing, generations to come will benefit from you hardship
you just know her spirit returns now and then to check on the old place and to stroll the path down to her little Mississippi as she called it rest in peace you lovely kind hearted angel .
Thank-you for the wonderful footage. So, nice to see the wild flowers growing so fortunate that Hanaah's family didn't use fertilizers. And we get to see Yorkshire's untouched beauty.
A good choice of music. I always recall Hannah talking about her shade returning to Low Birk Hatt and I do hope she was laid to rest there....the moonlight on the water.
REALLY thought the music captured the MOOD of the place really well etc. you could see hannah walking around the place..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely loved Hannah, She was the soul of a bygone humanity that is forever forgotten. When I was a young man watching this woman working so hard during those cruel blizzards I wanted to move in with her just to help her during those winters, bless her soul.
How lovely to see the transformation , that someone is living there and enjoying the beautiful surroundings, I’m sure Hanna is still wandering down the lane with one of her beloved dogs , she had such a strong spirit she will always remain . The haunting music was perfect and evoked such a feeling of her .
A beautiful way of life not seen since before the First World War. She was not of this time. I also remember watching the documentary when at school. It broke my heart then and still does. I wish I had been born in those times, life meant something then and was not spoiled by commercialism and hatred.
Thank you for sharing your photos. I wish they would do something with that ghastly sign though, something more befitting of the environment. Especially now Hannah has gone, it would be lovely to honour her memory in a less artificial way.
Hannah's spirit is there, watching over her beloved hill farm she called home. A true lady of Yorkshire. It was hers like it will never be anybody's else's. God bless you Hannah. Sleep peacefully among you're meadow..❤
Wheñ you see England now,you could cry,hannah represented the spirit and soul of the English people, i hope they rediscover their great national heritage. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Great to see it went to a trust. But also sad that Hannah has gone from 'her land of life'. Remembering the hard work she single handedly put into that farm in the harsh winters, and the love she had for her home and animals. Such a wonderful human. Hopefully her soul and spirit still walk those meadows that she was raised on. Lets hope that those who live there now respect it's 'personal' history and the 'great lady' who once owned it. R.I.P Miss Hannah Hauxwell.
I hope her cows were looked after ? And there should be a plaque on her farm house ? A beautiful and an amazing lady with inner strength that we all could learn from .
So sad that she never felt able to return and visit her home place. One would like to think she would have appreciated the love with which it was cared for and improved, and wouldn't it have been lovely to see her walk through her meadow!
HI Too hard for her emotionally, as no one but her family ever lived there. That's why she hung on to it til it became impossible. Shalom to you in Christ Yeshua.
Big place that Yorkshire ( that place is now in County Durham, btw ) - but please go to Wensleydale, Malhamdale and the small town of Grassington, set amidst the beauty of Wharfedale to get a softer, greener and more picturesque view. For 'toughness' go above the town of Grassington itself, to look at the extensive Lead Mine workings on the Moor. But take care - therin Danger lurks for the unwary.
Glad to see lovely wild flowers growing, we need more places like this and not building all these stupid houses everywhere, the human population should be controlled
this is not a tourist attraction it is a place of respect and the last strong hold of a lifestyle long since dead in our green and pleasent land. Quiet a woman old annie, she was a Dent of course.
Oh Hannah dear lass every time is see a video on your life i am driven to tears ,i will never forget those winter scenes of pure hell on earth no heat no light no running water and worst of all no one in the council giving a shit about you ,God love you dear Lady i pray you are with God in great comfort in heaven,Rest in peace dear Lady.PD.
What's the council got to do with it? Hannah was fiercely independent and not unhappy with her way of life. She had neighbours who helped her out with shopping etc. I grew up her to where she lived and we didn't have heating. Carrying hay into the fields in snowstorms was quite normal!!! Doubt that I could cope with it now though.
And Hannahs resting place, im so glad you didn't show it as this so sad enough (45 year old male) ....yes god bless Hannah and all like her xx Loverly music
Lovely woman who loved her land...so disappointed to see her very very small monument in the cemetery...really an insult. To a woman who cared for land so many people prospered from...so sad...she deserves much better dont you think?
Beautiful, thank you for sharing this, was feeling quite stressed for various reasons, now I am feeling very peaceful! Hope to go myself now......one day!! A wonderful lady.
Durham Wildlife Trust have got the sign wrong. It should be: 'Hannah's Meadow' (not Hannahs). Don't they know about apostrophes, forming the possessive?
I'm sure the public will forgive this minor error, I'm sure the vast majority will not even notice, after all the most important observation will be Hannah's meadow and beautiful countryside it's set in.
So I'm wondering who got the money from the sale of Ms. Hanna's home ? I would have loved to have been able to have met this true hard working lady .She should be an inspiration to all she is to me when I think about there's something I can't do I always think about this Lady & then I know I can do anything I set my mind to .
@@jackyblue67same10 she did move into a cottage in a nearby village and there were follow up documentaries of her travelling abroad, she did a lot of travelling in later years
I found the whole thing very sad. I'm in two minds - Yes its fascinating to see someone live out an old-fashioned life, and the hardship, and perhaps the attention was a good thing, and help, and maybe moving added years to her life - but another part of me was saddened that she sometimes looked like an innocent test subject, a fading relic, an exhibit to gawp at - and I can't help but feel she was pressured to leave her home place, I'm sure with the kindest of intentions, but coaxed to leave none the less, watching her say goodbye to her cattle, and looking on as her life's belongings were being auctioned from under her, was heartbreaking, and made me very uncomfortable... cameras there for 'my' benefit watching an old womans life been taken from her. Could I be as bold to say she might have died happily up on that farm?? I don't know, I just think some things are best left alone..... It reminds me of in the early 1980s I was with my Granda's brother, when on the telly came a 'first contact' with a tribe who had never seen white people or the modern world beore, and among all the "isn't this amazing" of everyone, my grand uncle sadly said "Thats them f*****d now, we'll see them in Coca Cola T shirts next week" and he was right, their lives were irreversibly changed forever, if they are even still around at all.......
Having watched the second documentary about her life, “A Winter Too Many” I wouldn’t have been surprised had she died on the hillside in the next winter. Instead she lived another 29 years in her house in the village. She travelled across Europe and to the USA. She made several more documentaries about her travels beyond the Dales. I think she enjoyed the final third of her life. She was only five miles from her family home and I have no doubt she returned occasionally in the summers to walk by the water. It is all very well being romantic about old-fashioned ways of life, but there is little romance in a snow drift and a frozen well.
Aye, they might have found her one morning, in her farmhouse- but only in her sixties ( she did live on, hopefully happily, for until her nineties ) - just 'gone for her Big Sleep' . She had to move on to pastures new to do more than just survive - no pony, pushbike or donkey to get anywhere, and sharing her house with mice and even the occasional bigger rodent. She had her doggie, but no pussycat.
Hi She did when all those documentaries were made of her over a span of some 20 odd years, which became such an inspiration to people all over the world where they were broadcast. Old age forced her to sell it and go first to a nearby cottage and then , into residential care.Shalom to you in Christ Yeshua.
@@241457922 I realise the trust is maintaining the meadows of the farm so was the house not included in this and if not is the house now under private ownership ????
@@td6369 Hi, Hannah's original farm house has been renovated and is privately owned by a sheep farmer and his family. You can still walk passed the farm on a public footpath so long as you respect the privacy of the present owners.
and there we are trying to savour and remember a piece of English countryside...as was......and here ı am in Turkey,which, trust me is very beautiful, fluoriforous, mountainous in parts, beeoootiful lakes, forests and almost desert in parts ......and they don't give a fig......as we didn't.........and now we are reduced to putting a meadow in the hands of the NT.
She was badly used by certain people, Ask the Bainbridge family? Their is nothing glamorous about shepherding its a hard life. I can vouch for that, nothing romantic
Hannah Hauxwell, who has died aged 91, was living a harsh existence as a hill farmer in the Yorkshire Dales, without electricity or running water, when the 1973 television documentary Too Long a Winter turned her into a national celebrity. She was first seen leading her cow into its shed as a blizzard raged at Low Birk Hatt farm, 1,000ft up in Baldersdale.
Hauxwell was an only child, born in the North Riding of Yorkshire at Sleetburn, Baldersdale, where her parents, William and Lydia (nee Tallentire), rented a farm. Three years later they bought Low Birk Hatt. The family suffered hard times during the Depression. When Hannah was six, her father died and her Uncle Tommy took over the running of the farm. She attended Baldersdale school up to the age of 14 and when her uncle died - three years after the death of her mother - she was left to farm alone.
After settling in Cotherstone, she became a part of the community, attending the Methodist chapel and joining an over-60s club. She moved to a care home in Barnard Castle in 2016, and to a nursing home in West Auckland, Co Durham, last year.
• Hannah Bayles Tallentire Hauxwell, farmer, born 1 August 1926; died 30 January 2018. God bless you Nannah, I hope youve returned to your family.
Beautiful tribute thank you
I will visit Yorkshire this month and plan to try to get to the area she lived
What a innocent soul she was , I remember watching the documentary many years ago and like many people was moved to tears by the humility and kindness of this woman. When you see people today , their quick speech , gossiping , critical restless minds , never happy , never content , and you see a person like Hannah Hauxwell , even royalty were respectful in her presence, that level of purity demands it .
Such a lovely choice of music. Hannah is The Lark Ascending and will always live in this beloved hallowed place. RIP sweet lady. xo
@@paulbutterworthbillericay
I have his music on CD “A Shropshire Lad”. Such beautiful music.
Hannahs cottage is in Cotherstone before she spent the last two years of her life in a care home 🏡 💙 ❤ 💕
Thank goodness there are local and federal Trusts to save some of the soul of a nation. Hannah.'s farm and meadow give visitors the chance to time travel back a century. So glad it is being preserved, and that her spirit can walk beside the river, like she said she would.
I never forgot watching the documentary over 30 years ago when it was shown on TV .....it has stayed with me all my life, and the likes of Miss Hauxwell we shall not see again..... god bless you, you were an inspiration.
Broomehall well said she was very special indeed.
I remember watching over 30 years ago it brought many memories of some of my people honest honourable humble and pure it is people like henna that teach us about what s really important care for the land animals. And a profound respect for people one of godsspecial chosen
There are many similar people, but chances of a TV producer finding her was a coincidence
@@SuzLa1 it was pure luck!
@@SuzLa1 it wasn’t a tv producer. It was a friend of one that came across her while out walking one day. He contacted his friend Barry Cockcroft who went out to find her for a documentary he was planning.
I found a book about Hannah many years ago and was so taken by her life. I live in Whistler, BC and hike the long distance paths in the UK every summer. This year I'll be walking the Bracken Way in the Yorkshire Dales but will take a detour and visit Hannah's Meadow to pay my respects. Yes, rest in peace, dear Hannah. >
Hannah, you gave this world so much. Your story will never end. You can finally rest in peace and be reunited with your family that you loved and missed for so long.
May God rest you.
Time waits for no-one it just keeps on moving.mother nature was so blessed to have Hannah walk through her.Hannah touch us all.may she rest in peace.
Tk you for showing Hannah's home is loved in the present. She is still in this place. Rest well Hannah.
Fabulous photographs/"Lark Ascending"by Vaughn Williams(my favourite classical music piece)+Hannah Hauxwell/Low Birk Hatt Farm-forever beautiful and blessed for all time.xxx
What a beautiful lady Hannah was, Rest in peace Hannah, you may not have realized when you were alive the good your were doing,
generations to come will benefit from you hardship
Thank you for posting. The woman is an inspiration.
you just know her spirit returns now and then to check on the old place and to stroll the path down to her little Mississippi as she called it rest in peace you lovely kind hearted angel .
Such a gentle amazing lady, perfect Sylark Ascending. RIP Hannah you were one of the gentle kind.
A beautiful tribute to this remarkable woman.
Thank-you for the wonderful footage. So, nice to see the wild flowers growing so fortunate that Hanaah's family didn't use fertilizers. And we get to see Yorkshire's untouched beauty.
i am in awr of Hannas ability to survive the lonelyness she must have felt at some time or other, yes, a truely amazing Lady.
A good choice of music. I always recall Hannah talking about her shade returning to Low Birk Hatt and I do hope she was laid to rest there....the moonlight on the water.
No sadly Hannah isn't buried there! XX
@@levimacdonald5188 Do you know where she is buried?
@@withlovefromrussia Romaldkirk Cemetery which isn’t far from Low Birk Hatt.
REALLY thought the music captured the MOOD of the place really well etc. you could see hannah walking around the place..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely loved Hannah,
She was the soul of a bygone humanity that is forever forgotten.
When I was a young man watching this woman working so hard during those cruel blizzards I wanted to move in with her just to help her during those winters, bless her soul.
Beautiful. ..rest in peace hannah
How lovely to see the transformation , that someone is living there and enjoying the beautiful surroundings, I’m sure Hanna is still wandering down the lane with one of her beloved dogs , she had such a strong spirit she will always remain . The haunting music was perfect and evoked such a feeling of her .
Thank you for helping to keep alive the memory of this lovely lady
Thanks Tony a piece of History
R I P. HANNAH
MY BEAUTIFUL DALES LASS.
YOU WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED. YOURS DEAN KLOUS ROBINSON. RICHMOND
NORTH YORKSHIRE ENGLAND UK 🇬🇧
A fitting tribute to a remarkable lady! Rest in peace Hannah x
A beautiful way of life not seen since before the First World War. She was not of this time. I also remember watching the documentary when at school. It broke my heart then and still does. I wish I had been born in those times, life meant something then and was not spoiled by commercialism and hatred.
R.I.P Hannah God bless you
Rest in peace Hannah. God bless you .. from Debbie Summers Australia
Thank you for sharing your photos. I wish they would do something with that ghastly sign though, something more befitting of the environment. Especially now Hannah has gone, it would be lovely to honour her memory in a less artificial way.
Hannah's spirit is there, watching over her beloved hill farm she called home.
A true lady of Yorkshire.
It was hers like it will never be anybody's else's.
God bless you Hannah.
Sleep peacefully among you're meadow..❤
R.I.P. MARVELOUS. WOMAN. GOD BLESS
God bless you Hannah life's work well done RIP. 💖
Thank goodness some of her has been preserved.......how lovely......
I seen the lady when I was camping near there she was sat in window what a lady good night God bless 😘
VERY BEAUTIFUL........
What a beautiful tribute ✌❤
RIP Hannah, may you always be remembered x
Absolutely beautiful ❤
Wheñ you see England now,you could cry,hannah represented the spirit and soul of the English people, i hope they rediscover their great national heritage. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Vaughan Williams music is perfect for this.
Hannah was a beautiful wee woman , breaks my heart that she was so alone.a real national treasure.. rip hannah we remember you sweetheart ❤x
She is an extraordinary lady,and seems to be the last of her kind !.I would love to meet her,
I love how Hannah's name and legacy will always live on, on the farm
RIP Hannah..Really must come from Derbyshire to visit the Meddow! Your story forever in my heart! One special Lady..God bless you!!!!
Lovely set of pictures enjoyed watching.
Great video with the right choice of music
Great to see it went to a trust. But also sad that Hannah has gone from 'her land of life'. Remembering the hard work she single handedly put into that farm in the harsh winters, and the love she had for her home and animals. Such a wonderful human.
Hopefully her soul and spirit still walk those meadows that she was raised on. Lets hope that those who live there now respect it's 'personal' history and the 'great lady' who once owned it.
R.I.P Miss Hannah Hauxwell.
a beautiful meadow like Hannah
Hannah’s meadow how fitting for a beautiful soul god bless you hannna may you forever live in the hearts 💕 of every English man and woman
I am truly humbled by Miss Hannah Hauxwell. Rest peacefully .
Watched this from New Zealand 🇳🇿 thanks for sharing this amazing video.
I hope her cows were looked after ? And there should be a plaque on her farm house ? A beautiful and an amazing lady with inner strength that we all could learn from .
So sad that she never felt able to return and visit her home place. One would like to think she would have appreciated the love with which it was cared for and improved, and wouldn't it have been lovely to see her walk through her meadow!
No the the chains was too strong
HI
Too hard for her emotionally, as no one but her family ever lived there. That's why she hung on to it til it became impossible. Shalom to you in Christ Yeshua.
Queen of Yorkshire god bless 🇬🇧
Very nice video lovely thank you, Hanna would have been happy with this lm sure.
Strong lady Hannah RIP. Yorkshire Looks Bleak.
Big place that Yorkshire ( that place is now in County Durham, btw ) - but please go to Wensleydale, Malhamdale and the small town of Grassington, set amidst the beauty of Wharfedale to get a softer, greener and more picturesque view. For 'toughness' go above the town of Grassington itself, to look at the extensive Lead Mine workings on the Moor. But take care - therin Danger lurks for the unwary.
God bless Hannah, what a remarkable lady, may you rest in eternal peace x
Beautiful place, I am sure she is close by her home and farm.Happy some family has the place
RiIP hannah just had your book today .the complete story .
Glad to see lovely wild flowers growing, we need more places like this and not building all these stupid houses everywhere, the human population should be controlled
She had a hard life but she just used to prond on I have most of her videos and books I would like to see any one do it these days
she was too good emotionally for most men.
this is not a tourist attraction it is a place of respect and the last strong hold of a lifestyle long since dead in our green and pleasent land. Quiet a woman old annie, she was a Dent of course.
Oh Hannah dear lass every time is see a video on your life i am driven to tears ,i will never forget those winter scenes of pure hell on earth no heat no light no running water and worst of all no one in the council giving a shit about you ,God love you dear Lady i pray you are with God in great comfort in heaven,Rest in peace dear Lady.PD.
What's the council got to do with it? Hannah was fiercely independent and not unhappy with her way of life. She had neighbours who helped her out with shopping etc. I grew up her to where she lived and we didn't have heating. Carrying hay into the fields in snowstorms was quite normal!!! Doubt that I could cope with it now though.
The lark ascending... Hannah
Path where she parted with her beloved COWSSSS, she had many. Smiles!
And Hannahs resting place, im so glad you didn't show it as this so sad enough (45 year old male) ....yes god bless Hannah and all like her xx
Loverly music
@Broomehall
the music from the tv programs helped as well, the day she moved out and it snowed, i dont know how she copped realy amazing lady.
Lovely woman who loved her land...so disappointed to see her very very small monument in the cemetery...really an insult. To a woman who cared for land so many people prospered from...so sad...she deserves much better dont you think?
Note , the tarmac road down through Hannah`s meadow was not there when Hannah lived at the farm. the village she moved to was Cotherstone not as said.
100% moved to Cotherstone, then cared for in barnard Castle and West Auckland (I think)
Why should I be ashamed ? her cottage location is common knowledge.
Beautiful, thank you for sharing this, was feeling quite stressed for various reasons, now I am feeling very peaceful! Hope to go myself now......one day!! A wonderful lady.
Ralph Vaughan Williams ~ The Lark Ascending
Wow. How she must have crossed that meadow a thousand times..
R.i.p.hannah
That's correct.
Where's all the snow? Thats my abiding memory
I can only hope lots of 3rd world immigration - a gift of our wise ruling classes -
transforms traditional English culture.
Hannah's cottage was actually in Cotherstone, not Hunderthwaite.
Durham Wildlife Trust have got the sign wrong. It should be: 'Hannah's Meadow' (not Hannahs). Don't they know about apostrophes, forming the possessive?
I'm sure the public will forgive this minor error, I'm sure the vast majority will not even notice, after all the most important observation will be Hannah's meadow and beautiful countryside it's set in.
God mercy on your soul Hannah
So I'm wondering who got the money from the sale of Ms. Hanna's home ? I would have loved to have been able to have met this true hard working lady .She should be an inspiration to all she is to me when I think about there's something I can't do I always think about this Lady & then I know I can do anything I set my mind to .
HI
She got the money and bought a cottage and travelled abroad!
@@toosiyabrandt8676 Are u serious or just messin with me ?
@@jackyblue67same10 she did move into a cottage in a nearby village and there were follow up documentaries of her travelling abroad, she did a lot of travelling in later years
I found the whole thing very sad. I'm in two minds - Yes its fascinating to see someone live out an old-fashioned life, and the hardship, and perhaps the attention was a good thing, and help, and maybe moving added years to her life - but another part of me was saddened that she sometimes looked like an innocent test subject, a fading relic, an exhibit to gawp at - and I can't help but feel she was pressured to leave her home place, I'm sure with the kindest of intentions, but coaxed to leave none the less, watching her say goodbye to her cattle, and looking on as her life's belongings were being auctioned from under her, was heartbreaking, and made me very uncomfortable... cameras there for 'my' benefit watching an old womans life been taken from her. Could I be as bold to say she might have died happily up on that farm?? I don't know, I just think some things are best left alone..... It reminds me of in the early 1980s I was with my Granda's brother, when on the telly came a 'first contact' with a tribe who had never seen white people or the modern world beore, and among all the "isn't this amazing" of everyone, my grand uncle sadly said "Thats them f*****d now, we'll see them in Coca Cola T shirts next week" and he was right, their lives were irreversibly changed forever, if they are even still around at all.......
I agree with you.She should have been left on her farm and given care
Having watched the second documentary about her life, “A Winter Too Many” I wouldn’t have been surprised had she died on the hillside in the next winter.
Instead she lived another 29 years in her house in the village.
She travelled across Europe and to the USA. She made several more documentaries about her travels beyond the Dales.
I think she enjoyed the final third of her life. She was only five miles from her family home and I have no doubt she returned occasionally in the summers to walk by the water.
It is all very well being romantic about old-fashioned ways of life, but there is little romance in a snow drift and a frozen well.
Aye, they might have found her one morning, in her farmhouse- but only in her sixties ( she did live on, hopefully happily, for until her nineties ) - just 'gone for her Big Sleep' . She had to move on to pastures new to do more than just survive - no pony, pushbike or donkey to get anywhere, and sharing her house with mice and even the occasional bigger rodent. She had her doggie, but no pussycat.
A more peaceful place would be hard to find, a more stoic and wonderful woman, almost impossible nowadays?...............
Is she still living ?
sadly Hannah passed away yesterday. A truly amazing lady .
what will become of her lovely farmland?
It's under management of the Durham Wildlife Trust, I'm sure it will be managed and protected for the long term for future generations.
I thought Hannah Hauxwell lived at and owned LOW Birk Hatt farm?
Yes she did.. but many of the photos are of High Birk Hatt farm. Very misleading to most viewers.
Hi
She did when all those documentaries were made of her over a span of some 20 odd years, which became such an inspiration to people all over the world where they were broadcast. Old age forced her to sell it and go first to a nearby cottage and then , into residential care.Shalom to you in Christ Yeshua.
Where can I get directions to visit please
explorenorthpennines.org.uk/enp119
Follow the link, enjoy your visit.
@@241457922 I realise the trust is maintaining the meadows of the farm so was the house not included in this and if not is the house now under private ownership ????
@@td6369 Hi, Hannah's original farm house has been renovated and is privately owned by a sheep farmer and his family. You can still walk passed the farm on a public footpath so long as you respect the privacy of the present owners.
Tony thanks for info
Durham Wildlife Trust need to have punctuation explained to them.
Hannah is still alive and well
Dave Desmond unfortunately Hannah passed away yesterday 31/01/18 at the grand age of 91
RIP Hannah! 😢
Where's the bleeding apostrophe! RIP, dear Hannah xx
Hannah Hauxwell was someone I would call a lady.
Nobody helped her why
and there we are trying to savour and remember a piece of English countryside...as was......and here ı am in Turkey,which, trust me is very beautiful, fluoriforous, mountainous in parts, beeoootiful lakes, forests and almost desert in parts ......and they don't give a fig......as we didn't.........and now we are reduced to putting a meadow in the hands of the NT.
Am I the only one who is extremely irritated about that missing apostrophe??!
Hannah's.
She was badly used by certain people, Ask the Bainbridge family? Their is nothing glamorous about shepherding its a hard life.
I can vouch for that, nothing romantic
You really should NOT have shown Hannah's retirement cottage - you should be quite ashamed of that.
mrjiarg it was shown in a tv program made about her years ago, its common knowledge!
It was shown on TV.... silly billy