The 134th annual show & sale of Wensleydale sheep took place on Saturday 30th August 2025 at CCM Skipton Auction Mart on behalf of the Wensleydale Longwool Sheep Breeders’ Association. The sale ring was well attended, with buyers from the far ends of the country – both new and established breeders – turning out to […]
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WENSLEYDALE SHOW WENSLEYDALE SHEEP RESULTS Wensleydale Show took place on the 23rd August this year, with judge Davina Stanhope finding her Champion and Reserve in E Sherwin’s stock, a shearling ram and aged ewe respectively Aged or Shearling Ram1st Mr E L Sherwin2nd Mr E L Sherwin3rd Mr N Oliver Ram Lamb1st Mr E L
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RIPLEY SHOW WENSLEYDALE SHEEP RESULTS A lovely sunny day for our Wensleydale sheep Exhibitors at Ripley show on the 10th August! Judge Mr Andrew Bainbridge judged the breed classes, finding his breed champion in L McPartland’s ewe lamb and reserve champion to J A & F Elliott’s ram Aged or Shearling Ram1st J A &
RYEDALE SHOW WENSLEYDALE SHEEP RESULTS A fab day for our Wensleydale sheep Exhibitors at Ryedale show on the 27th July! Judge Mr John McHardy made the trip down from Scotland to Yorkshire to judge the breed classes, finding his breed champion in J & A Pennell’s ewe hogg in full wool and reserve champion to
The Wensleydale Longwool Sheep Breeders’ Association would like to extend an absolutely enormous thank you to every craft demonstator, exhibition invigilator and WLSBA stand steward that helped make the exhibition’s week at the Great Yorkshire Show such a huge success! Without you all and your incredible enthusiasm for promoting heritage woolcrafts and Wensleydale sheep, it
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GREAT YORKSHIRE SHOW WENSLEYDALE SHEEP RESULTS Dr Freda Magill, WLSBA Vice Chairperson, flew over from Northern Ireland to judge the Wensleydale breed classes at the Great Yorkshire show on the 9th July 2025, picking out J A & F Elliott’s aged ram as her Breed Champion and J & A Pennell’s shearling ewe as Reserve.
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Members are invited to attend an exciting tour of the new I’Anson feed mill near Thirsk in North Yorkshire on Wednesday the 22nd of October 2025 at 10:30am. The tour is scheduled to last for around 2.5 hours and includes a Wensleydale specific nutrition talk as well as coffee and cake. If there’s enough interest,
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ROYAL NORFOLK SHOW WENSLEYDALE SHEEP RESULTS Dr Lynn Clouder judged the first year of dedicated Wensleydale breed classes at the Royal Norfolk show on the 25th & 26th June 2025, choosing D Parker & D Bird’s ewe and tup hoggs in wool as her Breed Champion and Reserve. D Parker & D Bird then went
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NORTH YORKSHIRE SHOW WENSLEYDALE SHEEP RESULTS A fantastic day for Oliver Duffield & Faye Protheroe in the Wensleydale classes at North Yorkshire Show this weekend, taking the Breed Champion with their ram lamb at their first show, and doing grandad and veteran Wensleydale breeder Alan Duffield proud Ram1st J & A Pennell2nd O Duffield &
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SUFFOLK SHOW WENSLEYDALE SHEEP RESULTS WLSBA Chairman Ernie Sherwin judged at Suffolk Show on the 28th May, selecting D Parker & D Bird’s tup hogg as his Breed Champion with M Starking’s ewe hogg in wool taking the Reserve spot Aged Ram1st S Plenderleith2nd S Holdich3rd M Starkings Shearling Ram1st D Parker & D Bird2nd