Agriculture, Farming & Environment
Agriculture has played a huge part in shaping the landscape of the Lake District, the existing pattern of habitats reflecting the area’s strong farming history. In the absence of grazing, much of the land would revert to oak woodland, the main form of vegetation. Many hill farms in Cumbria have fell rights, going back centuries to well before the Enclosures Act, to pasture sheep, cattle and occasionally ponies.
The upland climate is harsh with low temperatures, high rainfall, thin soils and exposed steep gradients, limiting the type of farming that can be practised, the most common being hill sheep farming, although cattle are grazed in lowland areas. Herdwick sheep, reputedly brought in by the Vikings, are well adapted for coping with wet and cold conditions and are probably the most hardy breed in Britain.
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Keswick, sheep, houses, Latrigg
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Wind farm at Lambrigg.
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Mown hay in lines near Kendal on A685 Tebay road.
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Mown hay in lines near Kendal on A685 Tebay road.
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Mown hay in lines near Kendal on A685 Tebay road.
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Mown hay in lines near Kendal on A685 Tebay road.
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Mown hay in lines near Kendal on A685 Tebay road.
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Plumgarths Farm Shop, Kendal.
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Plumgarths Farm Shop, Kendal.
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Plumgarths Farm Shop, Kendal.
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Plumgarths Farm Shop, Kendal.
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Barn with windfarm in background, near Caldbeck.
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Ullthwaite landscape. N of Staveley in the Kentmere Valley. Sheep.
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Sheep, Ullthwaite, N of Staveley.
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Sheep, Ullthwaite, N of Staveley.
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Herdwick sheep, Newlands Valley.
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Sheep in Kentmere.
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Sheep in Kentmere.
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Blue sheep, Hallow Bank, Kentmere.
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Blue sheep, Hallow Bank, Kentmere.
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Kentmere from Hallow Bank area.
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Duddon Valley.
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Sheep on Turner Hall Farm, Duddon Valley.
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Sheep on Turner Hall Farm, Duddon Valley.
