sheepwalk

The sun was setting, but its glories were at the other side of the house; for this window looked eastward, where the landscape of sheepwalks and pasture land was sobering at the approach of darkness.

But good society, floated on gossamer wings of light irony, is of very expensive production; requiring nothing less than a wide and arduous national life condensed in unfragrant deafening factories, cramping itself in mines, sweating at furnaces, grinding, hammering, weaving under more or less oppression of carbonic acid, or else, spread over sheepwalks, and scattered in lonely houses and huts on the clayey or chalky corn-lands, where the rainy days look dreary.

As usual it will offer workshops, demonstrations and stalls, along with live sheep, goats and the annual Sheepwalk fashion show.

But Patrick Mannix, who has owned Sandhurst Copse and Sheepwalk woodlands near Shamley Green since 2000, argued SWT has a wider responsibility to see if any of its ash trees might be genetically capable of surviving the disease.

Following a non-jury trial in Belfast last month, Judge Gordon Kerr reserved judgement on three charges arising from a police search of his home at Sheepwalk Road in Lisburn, Co Antrim.

There are refreshments from a range of artisan food producers and entertainment from the quirky fashion show, the Sheepwalk, which gives exhibitors the chance to show off their creations.

SHEEPWALK AMY (Race 2) should return to winning ways having been dropped in grade.

LEFT: Sheepwalk exhibitors RIGHT: Linda Robinson with an example of the Burial Cloud woollen coffin TOP: Helpers stuff and sew up cushions on the Woolsack stand

7.43 (480m): Mill Chico (11), Branxton Pickle (10), Pontop Purdy (5), Black Elegance (W) (3), Sheepwalk Jones (scr), Rabbit's Cage (scr).

In days long past the upland was a vast sheepwalk supporting the now extinct Cotswold breed of sheep.