Hope Bourne

Hope Bourne (born Hartland, Devon, 1920, died 22 August 2010) was a self-sufficient painter and writer who lived alone in primitive cottages and a caravan on Exmoor, surviving by growing her own vegetables, fishing, and hunting for rabbits.

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• The exmoor story of hope bourne a film by chris chapman
• Hope bourne exmoor
• References

Known as the Lady of Exmoor, she wrote 5 books on Exmoor and 1 novel set in North Devon, was the subject of three TV documentaries and contributed a weekly column to the West Somerset Free Press.