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Feeling sheepish?
City Observer | 22.01.25 - 7:13 a.m. | #
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Disappointed to find the Coram's Fields sheep are no more.
Steve | 22.01.25 - 7:34 a.m. | #
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In a world of normalised nazi salutes, this is the kind of news content I need. Thank you for your service.
Sam | 22.01.25 - 7:35 a.m. | #
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I have brushed Derek and he appeared to enjoy it but that’s a different story
Allie | 22.01.25 - 7:43 a.m. | #
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Sorry…..I nodded off halfway through your article after counting all those sheep!
Bob S | 22.01.25 - 8:32 a.m. | #
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Baa!
Ken | 22.01.25 - 8:37 a.m. | #
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For London Zoo : llamas are not THAT closely related to sheep. If the website is to be believed, their girafe is the closest relative to sheep (being the one species of ruminant listed).
They've also got hippos and two kinds of pigs, both of which are also closer to ruminants than the camel/alpaca/llama
Thorum | 22.01.25 - 8:39 a.m. | #
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If you are interested in all things sheep I'd point you to 'Counting Sheep: A Celebration of the Pastoral Heritage of Britain' by Philip Walling. It does for sheep what this blog does for London (almost).
Rod | 22.01.25 - 8:45 a.m. | #
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Then again, "A Short History of the World According to Sheep" by Sally Coulthard will tell you more than I wanted to know—but not this.
MartinG | 22.01.25 - 9:04 a.m. | #
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The Oasis Farm Waterloo sometimes has a sheep or two
James | 22.01.25 - 9:09 a.m. | #
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Did you have a look at Battersea Park Zoo? One of my Daughter's school friends works there, they might have sheep.
Mike | 22.01.25 - 9:10 a.m. | #
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This leads me to wonder where the closest working farm to Central London is.
I was also thinking recently where the closest accessible countryside to Central London is i.e. where you could walk without interruption to the GLA boundary without any urban sprawl. One contender could be Scrogginhall Wood near Bromley from where you can walk in a generally southerly direction without interruption.
PC | 22.01.25 - 9:25 a.m. | #
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Oasis farm near Waterloo appears to have sheep (according to their website and Google maps) and my railway knowledge lets me know Vauxhall is before Waterloo… but I’m sure you’ll point out why I’m wrong.
Apuldram | 22.01.25 - 9:32 a.m. | #
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Would've been a good few travelling on the Circle line baack in the day, from the west country to Smithfield.
Strabismus | 22.01.25 - 10:27 a.m. | #
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After reading about Barking and Dagenham's five smallest parks, I assumed we had reached peak nicheness. How wrong that turned out to be!
cau1khead | 22.01.25 - 2:40 p.m. | #
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Goats in Kentish Town city farm, but I guess we can all tell the sheep from the goats.
(Recent local publicity asking for donated real Christmas trees as goat fodder and floor covering--pine trees are good for goats)
MilesT | 22.01.25 - 2:46 p.m. | #
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I loved this post, it cheered me up. Thank you.
Richard | 22.01.25 - 2:48 p.m. | #
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Exactly the type of post (besides the buses) which makes me read this blog!
I didn't know that such a farm existed, given that it's within walking distance I may give it a visit at some point!
matthieu1221 | 22.01.25 - 2:50 p.m. | #
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As someone who once attended a corporate team away day at Spitalfields City Farm, I found this especially interesting. Thank you for not being too sheepish to share your findings.
DavidC | 22.01.25 - 3:40 p.m. | #
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The quality content I've come to expect from ewe.
Mikey C | 22.01.25 - 4:18 p.m. | #
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There used to be a city farm up near Hendon/Golders Green area. Not sure if still there?
dg writes: zoo
Anyoldname | 22.01.25 - 4:58 p.m. | #
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I love Vauxhall city farm. Such a friendly place. Thanks for letting me know about their fundraiser.
dncn | 22.01.25 - 11:05 p.m. | #
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This has been some of the best content you’ve ever done, baaaaa none.
Phil | 23.01.25 - 7:12 a.m. | #
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I have nothing to add apart from in 2023 there were 3370 Sheep and Goats in Greater London.
Daniel | 23.01.25 - 8:59 a.m. | #
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Just saw the comments about Golders Hill Park Zoo. There are no sheep there.
Mikey C | 23.01.25 - 10:20 a.m. | #
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Queens Park has a couple of sheep, which wouldn't make your top 10 but are closer to CX than most of the farms on the map
Tom C | 23.01.25 - 2:19 p.m. | #
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The map doesn't show Crystal Palace Park which has a Capel Manor College Campus containing sheep (all year around) for the students to learn animal husbandry courses and others.
dg writes: the map shows 'city farms'
Anthony R | Homepage | 23.01.25 - 6:31 p.m. | #
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Totally excited that this sheepish post has made this week's b3ta newsletter.
(click to embiggen)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 03.02.25 - 10:35 p.m. | #
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This Sheepish post and it's more correct counterpart have also made ex-YouTuber and lateralist Tom Scott's weekly recommendations newsletter.
TomH | 11.02.25 - 8:23 p.m. | #
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