Does anyone know these books? (sort of Arthur Ransome but not)

[stackthecats]

I remember reading a series of old-fashioned books, in the same vein as Arthur Ransome (but definitely not by him), about a family of children who holiday/live in the Lake District. It's old enough that it's known as Cumberland/Westmorland in the books, and one of the family of children is called Hyacinth. Anyone know of these? Would love to find out the titles and revisit them with my DD!

I just googled "Lake district children's books Hyacinth" & came up with the Fell Farm books. Is that it?

I remember these! And remember the girl named Hyacinth, the others kids had more ordinary names like maybe John, Susan. It was really bugging me what they were called.
Tracked it down and the first one was 'Fell Farm Holiday' by Marjorie Lloyd. There are some old copies available, I think on Amazon.

I think those are the ones! Thank you so much! For some reason I couldn't come up with anything on a google search! I'm going to order them and indulge in some nostalgia!

Fell farm books are excellent.
2 sets of twins and Sally the only singleton.

Oh I've just seen this.
Fell Farm Holiday, Fell Farm Campers and Fell Farm Christmas. Christmas is especially charming.
What amazes me is the kids in them literally walk for miles and miles and yomp up mountains...........
really recommend them

The illustrations are lovely

yes they are really charming aren't they
really lovely books. i wish there were more of them

@tortoiseshell1985

And they enjoy it!
I like the way they treat "the infant" (Sally). They're aware of her limitations as she is quite a bit younger, but always aware she doesn't want to miss out, so they work out ways she can feel important by not joining them. It's done very much in a caring way rather than patronising.

Yes I'd forgotten that, in one of them they give her a job to do as camp messenger or something like relaying messages from home to their camping location. Brilliant books