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5 unusual facts about Hannah Hauxwell


Baldersdale

Hannah Hauxwell, who became well known after an ITV documentary about her life in 1973 (Too Long A Winter), worked an inherited farm on her own in Baldersdale under very frugal conditions at Low Birk Hat.

Barry Cockcroft

He is best known for his documentary Too Long A Winter about the spinster Hannah Hauxwell who lived alone on a remote farm in the Pennines.

Cotherstone

Hannah Hauxwell, who became famous through a Yorkshire Television documentary, farmed near Cotherstone and in 1998 moved to the village itself.

Hannah Hauxwell

In January 2008, she was still living in her retirement home in the village of Cotherstone, less than five miles (8 km) from Low Birk Hatt Farm, where the meadows have been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest, Hannah's Meadows.

In the summer of 1972, Hannah was discovered by a friend of a researcher at Yorkshire Television while out walking in the Yorkshire Dales.



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