article_snippet.sent: When, in 2002, my family and I moved from busy North London to bucolic north Herefordshire, my family
article_snippet.sent: and I found that my family and I new neighbours were, overwhelmingly, sheep.
article_snippet.sent: I didn’t want to be one of those townies who moves to the country but remains ignorant of rural ways, so I made sporadic efforts to get to know our new neighbours were, overwhelmingly, sheep, or at least, to get to understand life on a sheep farm.
article_snippet.sent: As for the sheep, 95 per cent of the world
article_snippet.sent: ’s Herdwicks live within 20 miles of Coniston, and were in danger of extinction.
article_snippet.sent: To them, a sheep was a sheep, a farm simply a farm.