grazing

"Impact areas" are constructed with fire breaks, such as stone tracks, around them to prevent the wider spread of fire and grazing is used to keep the amount of combustible vegetation down.

Amid the sound of birdsong and cattle grazing in the fields of the Yorkshire Dales, there is a more unexpected sound.

"You can tell that the animal has been grazing on the Palaeozoic rock, typical of those found in Wales, particularly in and around where bluestones are found," she said.

They have long bemoaned that their property rights, grazing rights and water rights are under siege.

"I don't mind the sheep at all," says Tracy Baguley, whose garden backs on to the land where the sheep are grazing.