Devon Longwool

Devon Longwool

Photograph from the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1911
Conservation status	Extinct
Other names	Devon Longwoolled
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Distribution	Northern Devon, southern Somerset
Type	Upland
Use	Wool
Traits
Face colour	White
Horn status	Polled (hornless)
Sheep Ovis aries

The Devon Longwool was a British breed of domestic sheep from south-west England. It was distributed in southern Somerset and northern Devon, and was – like the Greyface Dartmoor and the South Devon – a polled longwool sheep.^[1]: 797 It is now considered extinct,^{[2]: 120 [3]} as in 1977 it was merged with the South Devon to form the Devon and Cornwall Longwool.^{[1]: 797 [4]}

History

A breed society, the Devon Longwool Sheep Breed Society, was formed in 1898. A flock book was begun in 1900.^[1]: 797

References

1. Valerie Porter, Lawrence Alderson, Stephen J.G. Hall, D. Phillip Sponenberg (2016). Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding (sixth edition). Wallingford: CABI. ISBN 9781780647944.
2. Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2007). List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources, annex to The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Archived 23 June 2020.
3. Breed data sheet: Devon Longwoolled / United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Sheep). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed May 2021.
4. Devon and Cornwall Longwool. Kenilworth, Warwickshire: Rare Breeds Survival Trust. Accessed May 2021.