Hefted! Upland Farming Heritage in the Cheviots is a podcast series about hill farming heritage in the Cheviot Hills. This episode provides an overview of the history of the Cheviot Hills and the people who live and farm there. How have people used the land at different times, and how have these land uses changed the landscape over the ages?

The title of this episode is taken from an anonymous poem about the Cheviots, available at the Bellingham Heritage Centre.

This series was produced by Olivia Oldham-Dorrington, in partnership with Durham University and with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (grant AH/Z507520/1).

The music was composed and performed by Alistair Anderson, and our series artwork is by Anthea Wood. Thank you also to Caroline Smith for her help with research, and to Chris Dalglish and Chris Gerrard for their contributions.

Links and resources

• The Hills Far Out By, Anonymous Poem
• Northumberland National Park

Hefted! Upland Farming Heritage in the Cheviots is a podcast series about hill farming heritage in the Cheviot Hills. This episode takes us on a tour through a shepherd’s year, sharing important shepherding practices in the Cheviots as well as some of the key moments in a shepherd’s calendar. How have these practices and rhythms changed over time? And how might they continue to change going forward?

This series was produced by Olivia Oldham-Dorrington, in partnership with Durham University and with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (grant AH/Z507520/1).

The music was composed and performed by Alistair Anderson, and our series artwork is by Anthea Wood. Thank you also to Caroline Smith for her help with research, and to Chris Dalglish and Chris Gerrard for their contributions.

Hefted! Upland Farming Heritage in the Cheviots is a podcast series about hill farming heritage in the Cheviot Hills. In this episode, we learn about the animals who play such an important role in hill farming in the Cheviots—and have done for millennia. While the most iconic of these animals is, of course, the sheep, we also learn about the place and cattle and dogs in these hills, which have also changed over time.

This series was produced by Olivia Oldham-Dorrington, in partnership with Durham University and with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (grant AH/Z507520/1).

The music was composed and performed by Alistair Anderson, and our series artwork is by Anthea Wood. Thank you also to Caroline Smith for her help with research, and to Chris Dalglish and Chris Gerrard for their contributions