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Dist:0.2km<br/>Huge numbers of sheep are reared on the hill farms and moorlands of Cumbria. The main income from sheep today is the sale of their lambs, but in times past the wool was equally important. The Chancellor of the Exchequer in Parliament is still seated on 'The Woolsack' in recognition of wool's historic value. Here the sheep are picking amongst bracken. Bracken in perhaps the best-known of the British ferns. It spreads as much by its rhizomes as its spores, especially on open heathland.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.4km<br/>Some inquisitive sheep in the lane outside Greenholme Farm.
©C D Uglow
Dist:0.4km<br/>Herdwick, Swaledale and Rough Fell sheep have been bred for generations of the Cumbrian Fells, even back to early medieval times. They have their own hill territory or "heaf", to which they will always return. Many hill farmers have 'fell rights' on which to pasture sheep, cattle and occasionally ponies. The word "Herdwyck" meaning sheep pasture, is recorded in documents going back to the 12th century. Herdwick sheep are the most hardy of all Britain's breeds of hill sheep. The Swaledale sheep has proved itself to be a hardy sheep, well fitted to endure the hardships of exposed and high lying situations on which it thrives. Although the Rough Fell is little known nationwide it is enormously popular on its native mountain and moorland farms.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.5km<br/>This small village hall host a wide range of activities.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.5km<br/>The main road before the new bypass was built just before the war.
©John Matthews
Dist:0.5km<br/>Formerly the main farm in Water Yeat
©John Matthews
Dist:0.6km<br/>Coniston Water in view between the trees
©Michael Graham
Dist:0.6km<br/>This pier is at the south end of Lake Coniston.
©Roger Temple
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©Peter Bond
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©Peter Bond
Dist:0.6km<br/>From the point where the lake flows into the River Crake
©John Matthews
Dist:0.6km<br/>A Victorian reign post box on the junction of a small village road and the A5084.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.6km<br/>Looking north
©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.7km<br/>The waiting room for the Coniston steamers.
©Mick Garratt
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©John Brightley

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