Peter Murray: A Scottish Shepherd on Exmoor
27/10/25
Image to go in here of Diary Page. Currently unavailable. Larkbarrow in 1892. This page from Robert Tait Little’s diary...
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Gerard Spooner and the Scottish shepherds on Exmoor.
22/07/25
During The Friend’s first major project on Hoar Oak Cottage, funded by Heritage Lottery in 2011, an interesting newspaper article...
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Scottish shepherds, stock diaries and breeding sheep on Exmoor
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Digital Archiving and Exmoor Sheep Records Over 2024, The Friends have been busy archiving, digitising and digitally archiving the many...
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Did the occupants of Hoar Oak Cottage have hobbies? It’s very hard to imagine them having any time for hobbies....
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#SheepBite
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It is said that Eskimos have a hundred words for snow. Exmoor shepherds may have had as many for sheep....
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Exmoor – Land of Goshen?
05/11/17
Exmoor may seem like a forbidding, remote or even extreme environment to our modern minds. To the Scottish shepherds who...
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Protecting sheep in winter
11/06/17
When the early shepherds travelled to Exmoor from Scotland with their sheep it was not surprising that they continued to...
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