Cover
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
CONTENTS
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Maps
Introduction The Four
OCTAVIA HILL Gathering in the Givers
Octavia Hill Gathering in the Givers
A Visit to the Hill Country Archipelago
Arguments
The National Trust
Reputation
BEATRIX POTTERA Farm of One's Own
Beatrix Potter A Farm of One's Own
The Bequest
Upbringing
Viking Sheep, Rawnsley and Preservationism
Hill Top Farm
Troutbeck
Monk Coniston Park Estate
Planning
Retirement
PAULINE DOWER 'Inconspicuous Good'

Pauline Dower 'Inconspicuous Good'
A Trevelyan
The Commission Gets Started
At Work
Northumberland National Park
Case Work
'Such an Interesting Life'
SYLVIA SAYER Segregating Dartmoor
Sylvia Sayer Segregating Dartmoor
'My Unconscionable Impatience'
Dartmoor's First Preservationists
The Silent Remembering Moor
Rural Subtopia
Locus Standi
The Reservoir Battles
Forestry
Military and Access
Wild Country
Epilogue Fifty Years On
NOTES
FURTHER READING
Index