sentences:  A Yorkshire Post article published in April 1970 chronicled the daily life of Hauxwell, then 44, as she worked alone in her family home, Low Birk Hatt Farm, a dilapidated farm in Baldersdale, west of Cotherstone, in the North Riding of Yorkshire (since 1974 in County Durham).She had run the farm by herself since the age of 35 following the deaths of her parents and uncle.With no electricity or running water and struggling to survive on £240–280 a year (at a time when the average annual salary in the UK was £1,339), life was a constant battle against poverty and hardship, especially in the harsh Pennine winters, when she had to work outside tending her few cattle in ragged clothes in temperatures well below freezing.