Hannah Hauxwell

Who is Hannah Hauxwell?

Hannah Hauxwell is a retired English farmer who has been the subject of several television documentaries on Yorkshire Television.

Hauxwell was living alone at Low Birk Hatt Farm in an isolated area of the North Riding of Yorkshire when she came to public attention, first in a Yorkshire Post article published on 6 April 1970 entitled "How to be happy on £170 a year" and then, in 1973, 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.