page_title: Hannah Hauxwell
section_title: Yorkshire Post article
hierarchical_section_title: Hannah Hauxwell / Yorkshire Post article
caption_attribution_description: English: High Birk Hatt farm in distance.
context_page_description: Hannah Hauxwell was a British farmer who was the subject of several television documentaries. She first came to public attention after being covered in an ITV documentary, Too Long a Winter, made by Yorkshire Television and produced by Barry Cockcroft, which chronicled the almost unendurable conditions of farmers in the High Pennines in winter.
context_section_description: A Yorkshire Post article published in April 1970 chronicled the daily life of Hauxwell, then 44, as she worked alone in her family home, Low Birk Hatt Farm, a dilapidated 80-acre (32 ha) farm in Baldersdale, west of Cotherstone, in the North Riding of Yorkshire (since 1974 in County Durham).  She had run the farm by herself since the age of 35 following the deaths of her parents and uncle.  With no electricity or running water and struggling to survive on £240–280 a year (at a time when the average annual salary in the UK was £1,339), life was a constant battle against poverty and hardship, especially in the harsh Pennine winters, when she had to work outside tending her few cattle in ragged clothes in temperatures well below freezing.
caption: Hannah's Meadow in Baldersdale, with Low Birk Hatt Farm in the background
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