Gwaenynog Hall: Beatrix Potter's inspiration

Although the gorgeous grounds of the estate fell into disrepair, it was restored in 1988 to what Beatrix would have witnessed. In fact, it was the current owners, her great-great niece, Janie Smith, and her husband, Tom, who gave the gardens their old life back with the horticultural help of their daughter, Frances, and David Lewis, a garden apprentice that had worked at Gwaenynog in the 1940s, as well as a collection of Beatrix’s own watercolour illustrations of the area.