Beatrix Potter Castle near Lake Windermere. Here Beatrix met Hardwicke Rawnsley, vicar of Wray and later the founding secretary of the National Trust, whose interest in the countryside and country life inspired the same in Beatrix and who was to have a lasting impact on her life. At about the age of 14, Beatrix began to keep a diary. It was written in a code of her own devising which was a simple letter for letter substitution. Her "Journal" was important to the development of her creativity, serving as both sketchbook and literary experiment: in tiny handwriting she reported on society, recorded
Elmstone Hardwicke Elmstone Hardwicke Elmstone Hardwicke is a village and sizeable parish north-west of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, England. St Mary Magdelene Church may be considered the hub of the village; its location is . The church has a 9th-century carved stone head which is ornamented like the font at Deerhurst. Elmstone Hardwicke is in the borough of Tewkesbury, the Cheltenham post town, and on the Coombe Hill, Cheltenham, telephone exchange. Nearby villages include Uckington, Stoke Orchard, and Tredington. Elmstone Hardwicke shares a village hall with Uckington. "The National Gazetteer" (1868): Elmstone-Hardwicke has an interesting History with regard to the use of its