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2025 National Show

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2025 National Show Blakelsey Show 2nd August There was fine entry forward for the 2025 National Show held at Blakesley Show, Northamptonshire with Tim Williams, the current President and judge on the day, remarking on the strong classes and good skins on show. The National Show Champion was Lawford Preston, a two year old ram […]

About the Wiltshire Horn Sheep Society

The Wiltshire Horn Sheep Society exists to promote, preserve and improve the Wiltshire Horn breed, to define the breed standard and record pedigrees. It came into being on the 13th January 1923, when 40 farmers and breeders met in the Grand Hotel, Northampton to put the  breed onto “sound pedigree lines”. The meeting concluded with the establishment of  the “Wiltshire or Western Horn Sheep Breeders Association”, together with the flock book, a constitution and a managing council. 22 attendees joined on the spot and paid their first annual subscription: 1 guinea ! Today the Society organises … Read More

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Emma McAvoy
8 Longhirst Drive
Arnold
Nottingham
NG5 8TU

07943 711069
wiltshirehornsociety@gmail.com

About the Breed

The Wiltshire Horn sheep is the original no-shearing sheep: the traditional choice for the 21st century.  It has the strengths of a native lowland breed, combined with low maintenance and low input costs, and has the ability to meet the most stringent requirements of the modern sheep industry, in both the commercial and … Read More

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