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Hardendale, Shap Rural: shearing 2008
locality:-   Hardendale
civil parish:-   Shap Rural (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   shearing
coordinates:-   NY58241464
1Km square:-   NY5814
10Km square:-   NY51
MN photo:-  
 Peter Nelson from Salterwath, and his son, shearing a flock of north country cheviot ewes. The lambs with their mothers, don't get shorn.

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BPL02.jpg  The flock gathered from a field.
(taken 4.7.2008)  
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BPL03.jpg  Going into the sheepfold.
(taken 4.7.2008)  
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BPL04.jpg  Ewes and lambs.
(taken 4.7.2008)  
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BPL05.jpg  Ewes and lambs.
(taken 4.7.2008)  
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BPL07.jpg  Smit mark on the lambs; red stroke down farside lisk and red pop on farside shoulder.
(taken 4.7.2008)  
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BPL06.jpg  Shearing.
(taken 4.7.2008)  
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BPL08.jpg  Shearing.
(taken 4.7.2008)  
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BPL09.jpg  Sheer indignity!
(taken 4.7.2008)  
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BPL10.jpg  Shearing.
(taken 4.7.2008)  
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BPL11.jpg  Shearing.
(taken 4.7.2008)  
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BPL12.jpg  Shearing.
(taken 4.7.2008)  
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BPL13.jpg  Shearing.
(taken 4.7.2008)  
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BPL14.jpg  Shearing.
(taken 4.7.2008)  
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BPL16.jpg  Rolling up a fleece.
(taken 4.7.2008)  
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BPL17.jpg  Fleeces stacking up.
(taken 4.7.2008)  
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BPL15.jpg  Shorn ewes and lambs going out.
(taken 4.7.2008)  
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