Commons Stories
Commons Stories is a collection of stories from four upland common regions across England: Dartmoor, the Yorkshire Dales, the Lake District and the Shropshire Hills.
You’ll find written and photographic portraits of people, short videos, audio clips, and reflections on events through the year, as well as reflections on some of the challenges of building sustainable futures for people and landscape in these special places.
The collection is put together by somewhere nowhere duo, writer Harriet Fraser and photographer Rob Fraser, with contributions from commoners using GoPro cameras to capture snippets of their day-to-day lives on the farm and in the hills.
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Exhibition: Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes, Yorkshire
April 19 - September 8th, 2024
Video Diary: Bleak Bank, Scanning the Ewes
Farmer Will Dawson, whose family have commons rights on Ingleborough Common in the Yorkshire Dales, talks about the process of scanning sheep, which is an important step to take before lambing.
Will Dawson : Commoner, Yorkshire Dales
Will Dawson farms at Bleak Bank, on the flanks of Ingleborough in the Yorkshire Dales. Will works alongside his father, continuing a family tradition of grazing sheep on the common, and keeping a small herd of dairy cows. Find out more here …