THE team at Wools of Cumbria Carpets is working with the Herdwick Sheep Breeders Association (HSBA) and DB Wools on a shared approach to gathering Herdwick wool from across Cumbria. “We have been ...

An online petition has been launched to save Herdwick sheep and maintain World Heritage Status in the Lake District. The petition, which has been created by Nigel Hollingworth, proposes the ...

Photographer Ian Lawson has been back into sheep country, spending the past three years capturing Herdwicks in their habitat for his second volume of images of the iconic breed and the shepherds who ...

To get a real taste of a dyed-in-the-wool rural English event, take a spin to the Georgian town of Cockermouth, in Cumbria, where one of the country’s most innovative, country celebrations will take ...

A rare breed of Cumbrian sheep has been awarded protected status putting it in the same category as Champagne, Cornish pasties and Melton Mowbray pies. Lakeland Herdwick sheep were first recognised as ...