Near and Far Sawrey
There are waymarked paths between the ferry and Beatrix Potter's house, which mostly allows people to avoid walking on the public roads.Sawrey is part of the Westmorland and Lonsdale parliamentary constituency, of which Tim Farron is the current member of parliament, representing the Liberal Democrats.Born in Ulverston as Arthur Stanley Jefferson in 1890, he would take trips to the village to visit his uncle and aunt John and Nant Shaw, who managed Sawrey's grocery shop.In 1955, the world-famous comedian wrote to the granddaughter of the Shaws:"Your visit to the Lake District brought back to me many happy memories of my holidays there with your grandparents.I can see the old grocery shop and the apple orchard opposite very vividly when your mother, Jack, Charlie, Nellie and poor Elsie were all kids together and full of mischief."