At one point she'd even built up her flock to include more than 1,000 sheep and was awarded prizes for her Herdwick ewes across Cumbria. Herdwicks are well-loved for a reason.

Herdwick sheep have lived in the Lake District for many centuries and they’ve been largely left to their own devices because neither their wool (coarse, dark and short-fibred) nor their meat ...

A free photography exhibition documenting the Herdwick sheep of the Lake District is set to take place at Penrith's Rheged's Gallery. The event will showcase portraits by photographer Ian Lawson ...

Herdwick sheep have been indigenous to the Lake District for the last thousand years. Local legend has it that they came on the boats with the Vikings. Recently, ...

For the last six hundred years, and maybe even longer than that, James Rebanks’s family has been farming Herdwick sheep in the Lake District of England. But unlike his grandparents and ancestors ...