Sheep Farming in the Dark Peak
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sheep Farming in the Dark Peak
Classmark: LAVC/SRP/1/039
Site Location(s): Subject - Edale, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.3667, -1.81667 ); Subject - Barber Booth, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.3667, -1.8333 ); Subject - Woodlands Valley, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom ( 53.3987, -1.77408 )
Date(s): 1979
Size and medium: 34 unbound typed leaves.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/409935
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
M.A. dissertation on sheep farming practises in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District, Derbyshire. The study draws on both printed documentary sources and information gathered during three field trips to Edale, Barber Booth and Woodlands Valley in 1978 and 1979. Its chapters cover sheep farming and Folk Life Studies, research methodology, a description of the Dark Peak, documentary sources, organisation and administration in the Dark Peak (including reference to the Shepherds' Society and sheep marks), and the sheepfarmer's year.
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