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Inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, they set up business in a former silk mill in Sheep Street. To this day the town remains a centre of fine craftsmanship.

At the corner with Sheep Street stands the town hall, which dates from 1767; on this building is a statue of the Bard presented by David Garrick.

It was not always quiet on the streets of Penistone; until 1910 cattle and sheep were sold in the streets on Thursdays, and many a deal was struck over a pint or two at the Spread Eagle Hotel.

One of Masham's distinctive features is its large market place, where fairs would see as many as 70,000 to 80,000 sheep and lambs up for sale.

It has been an important commercial street for centuries and during late medieval times was the location for a sheep market.

It was not always quiet on the streets of Penistone; until 1910 cattle and sheep were sold in the streets on Thursdays, and many a deal was struck over a pint or two at the Spread Eagle Hotel.

Sheep feeding on the fringes of a valley town are still a common sight.

Until 1932, sheep fairs were held here.

A flock of white-nosed Swaledale sheep are driven down the road from the village green by a shepherd and his dog in the Upper Wharfedale village of Buckden in the Yorkshire Dales.

Here, the ragged clouds and the sheep shining in the stormy light combine to create a fanciful, romantic scene.

Behind the rowing boat and the landing stage, sheep can be seen grazing amidst the ruins of the abbey, which was founded in the seventh century.

From Sheep Street the driveway to a tier of wide steps approaches the church.

In direct contrast to the over-populated coastal plain, the South Downs remained relatively deserted for centuries, for sheep require very few human guardians.

The broad expanse of what had been Ashford's original market place and a rendezvous for Kent's sheep and cattle farmers had, by the mid 1950s, been bisected by a central traffic reservation and new road

Sheep Street, possibly Ship Street or Cheap Street, is shown here a hundred years ago, with most of the houses still intact today.

Adopting enclosure meant that sheep and cattle could be kept away from crops.

Legend says that a priest in olden times evicted five devils from the building, pursuing them up to the Market Place and into a flock of sheep.

At the top of Sheep Street is the largely 17th-century Hind Hotel, perhaps the best secular building in the town.

In 1913, the castle was overrun with actors rather than sheep as Marten`s Tower and the Main Gatehouse looked down on the making of the film Ivanhoe.

Horsley is approached from the north by the main road from Nailsworth, middle right, and by a steep lane leading from the attractive hamlet of Washpool, bottom right, where the remains

Sheep safely graze on the village green in Danby, a pretty village on the northern edge of the North York Moors. Note the chapel on the left.

Huge sheep markets were held here, and the farmers and buyers refreshed themselves in the Woolpack, a convenient public house across the road from the castle.

Little of the early village, which was once surrounded by large areas of open sheep pasture, has survived.

The landscape in this photograph gives the appearance of great antiquity, with low stone walls and irregularly-shaped fields where sheep graze.