The Wainwright Memorial Lecture

Alison O’Neill, ‘the barefoot shepherdess’, lives and works on a farm in the foothills of The Howgills, above the market town of Sedbergh. Like Wainwright, Alison O’Neill is a committed advocate of the unique Howgills landscape where she lives and works as a farmer, shepherdess, walking guide and writer.

‘I believe in working with the landscape and not against it. If I don’t look after it, the landscape won’t look after me.’