Amanda Owen

Amanda Owen (born September 1974)[1] is an English shepherdess, writer and presenter.[2]

Amanda Owen
BornSeptember 1974 (age 47)
Other namesYorkshire Shepherdess and Amanda Jayne Livingstone
Spouse(s)Clive Owen (m. 2000)
ChildrenNine
Writing career
GenrePastoral
Notable worksThe Yorkshire Shepherdess[1]
Websitewww.yorkshireshepherdess.com

Biography
Ravenseat Farm in Swaledale, home of Amanda Owen and family

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.[3]

Initially best known through her Twitter feed as "The Yorkshire Shepherdess",[4] she has written five books:

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

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.[9] On 14 July 2019 she was the subject of Radio 4's On Your Farm.[10] On 21 October 2019, she appeared on the podcast Trees A Crowd with David Oakes.[11] 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.[12]

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),[13][14][15] 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.[16][17] 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.[18][19][20] 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.[21]

In November 2021, Owen was one of the four walkers travelling with the BBC's 360 degree camera,[22] in series two of BBC Four's Winter Walks.[23] with Owen's episode featuring a walk through Wensleydale and Raydale.

Owen also filmed a couple of reports for Live: Winter on the Farm[24] 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,[25] joining The Yorkshire Vet's Shona Searson[26] and Manchester chocolatier Sarah Gallacher[27][28][29] at Cannon Hall Farm with Rob and Dave Nicholson.[30]

Children

Amanda Owen has nine children:[31][32]

  • Her eldest Raven Elly Livingstone-Owen (born 2001)[33]
  • Reuben Livingstone-Owen (born 2003).[34] He is a regular contributor to episodes of This Week on the Farm and its live spin-offs, filmed at Cannon Hall Farm in South Yorkshire.
  • Miles Livingstone-Owen (born 2006)[35]
  • Edith Livingstone-Owen (born 2008)
  • Violet Ingrid Livingstone-Owen (born 2010)[36] (She was the youngest child to appear in series one of The Dales).
  • Sidney Ingram Livingstone-Owen (born 2011)[37]
  • Annas Livingstone-Owen (born 2013)
  • Clementine Delores Livingstone-Owen (born 2015, also referred to in the programme as 'Clemmie', 'Clem' and 'Tilly')
  • Her youngest Nancy Grace Livingstone-Owen (born 2016, also commonly referred to in the programme as 'Nicky')

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.[38] It is predominantly a sheep farm of 2000 acres; as of summer 2016 there were about 900 sheep and 30 cattle.[39]

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.[40] 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).[41][42]

Landscape features around the farm

Derived from Old Norse saeter (elevated summer pasture).[38][41]

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

Derived from Old Norse dalr (valley).[38][41]

  • Swaledale
  • Birk Dale
  • Whitsun Dale

Derived from Old Norse bekkr (stream or river).[38][41]

  • Whitsundale Beck
  • Hoods Bottom Beck

Derived from Old Norse foss (waterfall).[38][41]

  • 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.[43]

See also

References
  1. Owen, Amanda (2015). The Yorkshire Shepherdess. Pan Books. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-4472-5178-1.
  2. "Amanda Owen". bbc.co.uk. BBC News. 25 January 2017. video interview
  3. Moore, Anna (4 February 2017). "Amanda Owen, Yorkshire shepherdess: 'I like to give birth alone, like a ewe'". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  4. Parker, Olivia (19 April 2014). "Amanda Owen: Yorkshire's tweeting shepherdess". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  5. A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess (2017, Sidgwick & Jackson, ISBN 978-0283072413)
  6. (2019, Sidgwick & Jackson, ISBN 978-1509852673)
  7. (2021, Macmillan, ISBN 978-1-5290-7475-8)
  8. Clarke, Naomi; Gray, Charles (25 October 2021). "Amanda Owen opens up on secrets to feeding her family of 11". Examinerlive.co.uk. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  9. "The Museum of Curiosity: Series 11, episode 4". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  10. "BBC Radio 4 - On Your Farm, Yorkshire Shepherdess". BBC.
  11. "Amanda Owen: Deep in the Dales with the Yorkshire Shepherdess". Treesacrowd.fm. 21 October 2019.
  12. "The Poet Laureate Has Gone To His Shed". BBC Radio 4. 10 July 2021. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
  13. "The Dales". Togethertv.com. 31 March 2021.
  14. "The Dales: where are they now?". Togethertv.com. 12 April 2021.
  15. "The Dales". www.channel5.com. My5. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
  16. "Yorkshire shepherdess teams up with TV's Ben Fogle for new show on rejecting urban life". The Northern Echo.
  17. "Renegade Pictures TV Programmes". Renegadepictures.co.uk.
  18. "Our Yorkshire Farm TV Guide from RadioTimes". Radio Times. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  19. "28-DAY RATINGS: 10-16 MAY 2021". TVZoneUK. 19 June 2021.
  20. "28-DAY RATINGS: 03-09 MAY 2021". TVZoneUK. 12 June 2021.
  21. "Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Season 14". Radio Times. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  22. "BBC Four - Winter Walks, Series 2, Amanda Owen". Bbc.co.uk.
  23. "BBC Four - Winter Walks, Series 2 - Next on". Bbc.co.uk.
  24. "'Winter on the Farm' to be broadcast live on TV this week". Farminglife.com. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  25. Winter on the Farm, Episode 4 of 4, broadcast on Channel 5 between 8:00pm-9:00pm on 9 December 2021
  26. "The Yorkshire Vet". Donaldsonsvets.co.uk. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  27. "A chocolate cocktail lounge is coming to Manchester - with chocolate rewards for anyone supporting the Kickstarter appeal". Ilovemanchester.com. 8 October 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  28. Bourne, Dianne (16 May 2021). "The Manchester chocolate parlour so good Cadbury is telling you to go there". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
  29. "My5". Channel5.com. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  30. "Tune in: Winter on the Farm". Cannonhallfarm.co.uk. 6 December 2021. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  31. "Our Yorkshire Farm: Episode 1 Tuesday, 05 October". www.channel5.com. My5. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
  32. Our Yorkshire Farm, Series 5 Episode 5, broadcast on Channel 5 at 9pm on 2 November 2021
  33. Rodger, James (20 April 2022). "Amanda Owen shares brutal way Raven spent 21st birthday". BirminghamLive. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  34. Anderson, Hayley (24 December 2021). "Reuben Owen age: How old is Our Yorkshire Farm star?". www.express.co.uk. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  35. Grieveson-Smith, Jess (15 June 2021). "Our Yorkshire Farm's Amanda Owen on adding TENTH child to the Owen clan". YorkshireLive. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  36. "New readers: look what the stork brought". The Times. 4 September 2010 – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  37. "New readers". The Times. 18 February 2012 – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  38. Ordnance Survey: Howgill Fells and Upper Eden Valley: OL19 Explorer Map
  39. Owen, Amanda (2016). A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess. Pan MacMillan. p. 2. ISBN 978-1-4472-9526-6.
  40. Watts, Victor, ed. (2010), "Ravenseat", The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521168557
  41. Rollinson, William (1978). A History of Cumberland and Westmorland. Phillimore & Co Ltd. p. 34. ISBN 0-85033-315-6.
  42. Gambles, Robert (1997). The Story of the Lakeland Dales. Phillimore & Co Ltd. p. 4. ISBN 1-86077-033-9.
  43. Williams, Thomas (2017). Viking Britain - A History. William Collins Books. p. 161. ISBN 978-0-00-817195-7.
  44. "22 Kids and Counting". www.channel5.com. My5.
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