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Amanda Owen (born September 1974)[2] is an English shepherd, writer and presenter.[3]

Amanda Owen
Born	September 1974 (age 48)
Other names	Yorkshire Shepherdess Amanda Jayne Livingstone
Spouse	Clive Owen (m. 2000, separated 2022)[1]
Children	9
Writing career
Genre	Pastoral
Notable works	The Yorkshire Shepherdess[2]
Website	www.yorkshireshepherdess.com

Biography

Owen lives and farms on a remote farm, Ravenseat Farm, in Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales with her husband Clive Owen and their nine children: Raven, Reuben, Miles, Edith, Violet, Sidney, Annas, Clementine and Nancy.[4]

Owen first gained attention through her Twitter feed as "The Yorkshire Shepherdess",[5] and has subsequently written five books:

1. The Yorkshire Shepherdess[2]
2. A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess [6]
3. Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess [7]
4. Tales From the Farm[8]
5. Celebrating The Seasons (28 October 2021, ISBN 978-1529056853)[9]

In August 2017 she appeared on BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity. Her hypothetical donation to this imaginary museum was a shepherd's whistle, used to communicate with her sheep dogs.[10] On 14 July 2019 she was the subject of Radio 4's On Your Farm.[11] On 21 October 2019, she appeared on the podcast Trees A Crowd with David Oakes.[12] On 10 July 2021 she appeared as the featured guest on Radio 4's The Poet Laureate Has Gone To His Shed with Simon Armitage.[13]

Television work

Owen and her family first appeared as regulars on Adrian Edmondson's 2011 ITV documentary series The Dales (repeated on Together TV in 2021),[14][15][16] alongside the Reverend Ann Chapman, the vicar of four small churches, and a number of other people living in the Yorkshire Dales. At that point, the Owen family consisted of Amanda, Clive and their five young children.

In November 2015, the family appeared in an episode of New Lives In The Wild UK with Ben Fogle, a Channel 5 programme which is made by Warner Brothers' Renegade Pictures.[17][18] Their appearance led to their own observational documentary series following life on the Owens' farm on Channel 5 called Our Yorkshire Farm, which has become one of the channel's most popular programmes with over three million viewers watching each episode.[19][20][21] On 16 February 2021, Channel 5 broadcast the first episode of series 14 of Ben Fogle: Return to the Wild, which saw Fogle back at Ravenseat Farm after six years, where he met their youngest child Nancy (who was born since his last visit) for the first time.[22]

In November 2021, Owen was one of the four walkers travelling with the BBC's 360 degree camera,[23] in series two of BBC Four's Winter Walks.[24] with Owen's episode featuring a walk through Wensleydale and Raydale.

Owen also filmed a couple of reports for Live: Winter on the Farm[25] broadcast on Channel 5 between 6–9 December 2021. Reuben Owen also filmed a feature for this series and appeared on the last episode of the series,[26] joining The Yorkshire Vet's Shona Searson[27] and Manchester chocolatier Sarah Gallacher[28][29][30] at Cannon Hall Farm with Rob and Dave Nicholson.[31]

In 2022, Leeds-based Wise Owl Films[32][33] hired Owen to present a new farming series which would join farm-based programmes like Matt Baker: Our Farm in the Dales[34][35] in More4's schedules. Unlike Baker's Dales series or her Channel 5 programme, she will visit other farms in Amanda Owen’s Extraordinary Farming Lives, set to be a six-part series of 60 minute programmes.[36]

Ravenseat Farm

Ravenseat Farm is a working hill farm located in Whitsun Dale at the top of Swaledale. The nearest village is Keld in North Yorkshire, and the nearest town is Kirkby Stephen in Cumbria.[37] It is predominantly a sheep farm of 2000 acres; as of summer 2016 there were about 900 sheep and 30 cattle.[38]

The place name was apparently not recorded before the first edition of the Ordnance Survey in 1860. The name must have been given first to the summit on Ravenseat Moor. Seat is a dialect word for summit.[39] Place names in the North of England that include the element seat or side are usually derived from Old Norse saeter, seter or setr (elevated summer pasture).[40][41]

Landscape features around the farm

Derived from Old Norse saeter (elevated summer pasture).[37][40]

• Ravenseat Moor
• Robert's Seat
• Old Side Top
• Side Edge

Derived from Old Norse dalr (valley).[37][40]

• Swaledale
• Birk Dale
• Whitsun Dale

Derived from Old Norse bekkr (stream or river).[37][40]

• Whitsundale Beck
• Hoods Bottom Beck

Derived from Old Norse foss (waterfall).[37][40]

• High Force
• Jenny Whalley's Force

Scandinavian origins

In the year 876, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reported that the Viking ruler Halfdan had divided up the land of Northumbria.[42]

See also

• The Radford family - another large family featured in a Channel 5 documentary (22 Kids and Counting)[43]

References

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