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by dairylee 510 days ago
Although it's not quite sheep Newcastle has a Town Moor (Larger than Central Park) which has grazing cattle. There's also a farm not too far from the city centre which has grazing sheep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_Moor,_Newcastle_upon_Tyne

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03hm60d/p03hm2x8

https://maps.app.goo.gl/vojeS3eDTFznpYwMA

2 comments

The Ouseburn Farm in Newcastle (your last link) is a great place :)
I was going to say, I'm sure Desmond Dene has sheep there.
If you mean Jesmond Dene, there's a petting zoo with a few small beasts and birds. I know they have a couple of breeds of goat but I don't recall seeing any sheep on my last visit (within the last month).
Ha, yes thank you autocorrect. And they had sheep when I last visited couple years ago, maybe they got rid of them now.
You still don't need to go too far, there's a fair few farms just outside Ponteland that have grazing sheep and I'll regularly cycle past farmers with their collies on the quad bikes on a Sunday morning.