Posted by laurence_Monkhouse on November 21, 2002 at 22:19:24 from 62.252.32.6 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Re: Beckfoot posted by Prue Eckett on November 21, 2002 at 21:35:07:
Surely the Turners owned more than just a few acres. They were able to camp freely on farm land, even when it was clear thgat they were unwelcome as in PP, and JT was actually able to open a mine on High Topps - it was fortunate it wasn't a National Park then. Nancy knows individual farmers' wives, even from the other side of the lake, and is normally unusually courteous speaking to farming people. This surely implies that they owned a lot of the land in the area. They lived in a comparatively modest house and did not have an ostentatiously rich style of living, but this is typical of many old Lake District families.
There is an article in an early Mixed Moss arguing that it was Nancy who was the actual landowner.