Archive Article: 1999/11/19

19 November 1999

Former shepherd of the year Harry Hutchinson of Uldale gets to work gathering his flock of pedigree Swaledale ewes off Baugh Fell in the Howgills. Part of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, the farms rough grazing rises to 2200 feet. Ewes will be drenched for fluke, injected against worms and given a vitamin jab before being painstakingly split into tup groups to avoid cross-breeding.