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  • We’ve been featured on BBC Look North – watch it here

    By chillinghamwildcattle | 11th July 2016 | News and Events

    To coincide with the launch of our new book about Chillingham’s unique wild cattle, historic castle and church, and the family associated with the since the twelfth century, BBC Look North came and filmed with us. This feature was aired on BBC 1 at 6.30, in May 2016 and focuses on the three main areas of the castle and grounds: [...]

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  • We have published a new book! Chillingham: Its Cattle, Castle and Church Hardcover

    By chillinghamwildcattle | 26th April 2016 | News and Events

    The first comprehensive book about Chillingham in Northumberland-its unique wild cattle, its historic castle and church, and the family associated with them since the twelfth century. Julius Caesar admired the cattle’s ancestors for their brute strength, Sir Walter Scott immortalised them. They were painted by Sir Edwin Landseer and Archibald Thorburn, and depicted at their best by Thomas Bewick, the [...]

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  • 26th January 2016

    By chillinghamwildcattle | 26th February 2016 | Latest News

    If you want to know what we look like after 6 days of incessant rain see the picture. That was no joke. OK there is still plenty of grass here and Shortlegs bought out some hay but that was a miserable time. To make it really horrid the wind was out of an unusual direction – the same place the [...]

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  • 16th December 2015

    By Chillingham Wild Cattle | 26th February 2016 | Latest News

    Wind! Have we had some wind? There are a few trees down and some have landed on Twolegs’ tree shelters and those round things he put up with a number of trees in. Not that the trees are going to escape anyway but perhaps we could now wander in. I bet that would get him going! We had a lot [...]

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  • 1st December 2015

    By Chillingham Wild Cattle | 1st December 2015 | Latest News

    You are not going to believe this but the idiot Twolegs has taken the biscuit this time. He comes along with his noisy bits and pieces and proceeds to cut down a tree, he then gets it onto the flat bit of kit that he has behind the green thing and clears off. Well, it is usual, if you are [...]

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  • 23rd November 2015

    By Chillingham Wild Cattle | 23rd November 2015 | Latest News

    Well the foggy stuff seems to have gone. Strange old business that lark, you can see the hills one moment the next you can’t even see the uncles having a fight. Mind you, you can hear the old horns clattering against each other and the snorting and a few other noises besides, some best not mentioned here. It is now [...]

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  • 9th November 2015

    By Chillingham Wild Cattle | 9th November 2015 | Latest News

    It’s quiet around here now. No Longhair and her swarm of visitors. I wonder why they stop coming. It happened last year when the days got shorter, in fact it was about the time when the days and night are as long as each other. The sun has got it right for a few days but we can tell already [...]

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  • 3rd November 2015

    By Chillingham Wild Cattle | 2nd November 2015 | Latest News

    You would think this old aunt had seen enough of calves. Poking her nose in when the calf’s mother is trying to get something to eat. This aunt has been around for ages, probably longer than any others. She has a shaggy face which I am told by the others is a dead giveaway that she won’t be around for [...]

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