Great Yorkshire Show preview: A celebration of Wensleydale sheep

Both the heritage and modern-day story of Wensleydale sheep, an iconic Yorkshire breed will be told in a dedicated exhibition at the show

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Nick Oliver runs a flock of Wensleydales at Carperby in the heart of Wensleydale.
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Nick Oliver runs a flock of Wensleydales at Carperby in the heart of Wensleydale.

The Wensleydale traces its lineage back to a single sire born in 1839 in the Yorkshire Dales, but the breed was as-yet-unnamed when it was first given its own class at the Great Yorkshire Show in 1876....

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