Daughter of the Dales: The World of Hannah Hauxwell

Barry Cockcroft was a reporter who discovered an isolated woman living an ananchronistic simple farming life in a remote valley of the Yorkshire Dales; they became friends and have written several books about her life and way of life, she toured Europe and made a documentary about it. There are still people in the UK today who speak these dialects and say 'thee and thou', though there can...more

Barry Cockcroft was a reporter who discovered an isolated woman living an ananchronistic simple farming life in a remote valley of the Yorkshire Dales; they became friends and have written several books about her life and way of life, she toured Europe and made a documentary about it. There are still people in the UK today who speak these dialects and say 'thee and thou', though there can be few now who don't have electricity or running water or communications.   hide