Student researcher Lauren Hunter was one of the volunteers to take part in this project about Farming and Landscape in the Yorkshire Dales, and was transformed by her experience, changing her views, relishing the chance to learn, and altering her course from here on. Read on for more …
Read more ›October 31, 2017•Dales Countryside Museum, yorkshire dales farms
Yorkshire Dales Farmers – in their own words, and with black and white portraits. The exhibition at the Dales Countryside Museum is now open.
Read more ›October 6, 2017•Dales Countryside Museum, yorkshire dales farms
October 1, 2017•Dales Countryside Museum, yorkshire dales farms
Artists Steve Mason and Rachel Waller add to the Voices from the Land exhibition, and hark back to the work of Marie Hartley in the Yorkshire Dales.
Read more ›August 30, 2017•Landscape, Swaledale Sheep, Yorkshire Dales Shows
There can be fewer locations better for a country show than Kilnsey in Wharfedale. The show spreads across the flat fields in the valley floor and has the dramatic face of Kilnsey Crag towering over it. Every year there’s a show here on the Tuesday after the second August Bank Holiday …
Read more ›Leeds University student Emily Owen reflects on her visit to Coverdale to talk to farmer Stephen Lambert about life in the Yorkshire Dales.
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An old sheepfold high on the moors of Upper Swaledale may appear to be abandoned but is in fact very much in use, and every year sheep are gathered into it for shearing.
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Leeds University student Holly Smith reflects on her day in Wharfedale, interviewing Stuart Hird …
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John Bentley has been with the Calverts at Hoggarths Farm in Swaledale for a morning of shearing and finds out that there’s more to it than just removing fleeces …
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Voices From the Land 