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A Leicester Longwool at Colonial Williamsburg. The Leicester Longwool is an English breed of sheep. Alternative names for the breed include: Leicester, Bakewell Leicester, Dishley Leicester, English Leicester, Improved Leicester and New Leicester. It was originally developed by 18th-century breeding innovator Robert Bakewell. [1]
The US Leicester Longwool Sheep Breeders Association was founded to preserve the endangered Leicester Longwool breed and to promote the interests of Leicester Longwool sheep breeders. Join the LLSBA. Register or Transfer Sheep.
Leicester Longwools. To preserve any rare breeds it is important that they are valued. They hold a unique store of genetic traits which are now recognised as valuable to the national commercial flock, being very hardy, good mothers, and providing wonderful fleeces and exceedingly good mutton.
Leicester Longwool Sheep. 1,203 likes. Learn more about Leicester Longwool Sheep and the associations that promote them.
Leicester Longwool Ewe and Lambs. The Leicester Longwool breed is also known as the English Leicester (pronounced ‘lester’). The breed was developed in England in the mid-1700s by innovative breeder Robert Bakewell, the first to use modern selection techniques to improve livestock breeds.
Leicester Longwool Sheep are perhaps the most historically significant of all sheep breeds in its British homeland, and it is certainly the most famous of the longwools. It was the breed selected for development by Robert Bakewell, the most renowned and successful of all the early workers in the field of livestock improvement.
The Leicester Longwool is a hugely important breed in the history of livestock development. In the first half of the 18th century the longwool breeds of the midlands were large, slow growing with a poor carcase.
