Introduction
Julia Bradbury will front this year’s Countryside Live for the first time.
Best known for presenting Countryfile on the BBC and Britain’s Best Walks and Australia with Julia Bradbury on ITV, Julia is renowned for being genuinely passionate about the countryside and outdoor pursuits.
Countryside Live showcases the very best of food, farming and agriculture, attracting thousands of visitors across two days.
Perfect for families, there’s special guests, live performances, animals, shopping and a Create + Explore area with hands-on activities for children and much more.
There’s also 2,000 animals competing, from horses to honey, pigs to poultry, sheep to cattle, pigeons to rabbits. Elsewhere there’s birds of prey displays, hundreds of stands to browse, horticultural classes and farriery competitions.
Countryside Live which started in 2003, is organised by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, a registered charity which also organises the Great Yorkshire Show.
If you wish to apply for press passes for Countryside Live, please email jof@yas.co.uk
Press Releases
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Countryside Live 2019
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- Supreme Beef Champion won by Hannah Donaldson of Huby, nr York with her Limousin Steer, Haribo
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- Reserve Supreme Beef Champion won by Dion Hughes of Corwen, Denbighshire
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- Ridden Coloured Horse & Pony Championship won by Native type, Return Ticket, owned and ridden by Chloe Hardwich of Stokesley
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- Best rabbit 2019 – White Angora named Julliet, owned by Adele Wray, Wilmslow
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- Supreme Champion Pair of Butchers’ Lambs – two Beltex cross gimmers owned by Ian, Mary and Richard Lancaster of Clitheroe
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- Show Director, Charles Mills with Julia Bradbury
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- Meeting the goats
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- Julian Norton meets rare breed sheep
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- Julia Bradbury, Will Smith from Stray FM and Amanda Owen with Countryside Live visitors
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- Inspecting the eggs at Countryside Live 2019
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- Honey Champions at Countryside Live 2019
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- Julia Bradbury & Amanda Owen at Countryside Live 2019
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- Julia Bradbury and Julian Norton at Countryside Live 2019
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- Julia Bradbury with Charles Mills and Peter Wright at Countryside Live 2019
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- Julia Bradbury presented with a wreath of Great Yorkshire Show wristbands made by the Cone Exchange
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- Ninja assault course at Countryside Live 2019
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- Olympia Champion at Countryside Live 2019. 8 year old dun Welsh Section D stallion, Manai Eurostar, ridden by Clare Fitch and owned by Karen Johnson of Ross on Wye.
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- Opening of the Fodder Garden with Julia Bradbury, Peter Wright, Heather Parry MD & Emma Stothard, Sculptor
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- Pigeon Champion 2019 – Sean Morrow of Durham with an English Long Faced Muffed Tumbler
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- Supreme Poultry Champion, a Black Leghorn Bantam, bred by Ellis Heeley of Drighlinton
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- Supreme Pedigree Calf Champion won by Mark Hallam and David Wright of Ashbourne n Derbyshire with a Britich Blue Heifer, Dewlands Olivia.
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- Reserve Pedigree Calf Champion won by Martin Clough of Lincolcnshire with a Lincoln Red Heifer, Beverley Heroine.
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- Young Handler Champion 11 year old Oliver Watson with a Jacob and Reserve Champion Leah Parker with a Texel x Beltex
Countryside Live 2018
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- Supreme Champion Beef Beast Limousin heifer Midnight Star with owner Mark Harryman, sponsor James Cooper of Ripon Select Foods and judge Wilson Peters
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- Young Beef Handler Miss Graham of Brampton Cumbria with Limousin X Black Diamond owned by June Dowie and Jennifer Heslop
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- Charles Mills, Show Director
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- Peter Wright speaking to the Countryside Live audience 2018
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- Mountain and Moorland Ridden Champion went to Sandra Burton Connemara stallion, Banks Timber, owned by Miss E Burton of Wigan.
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- Amanda Owen and Ruth Dalton from the Rare Breed Survival Trust seeing some of the rarest sheep in the UK
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- Supreme Champion Pair of Butchers Lambs were a pair of Beltex owned by Hannah Brown, centre, and shown by her parents Valerie and Martin
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- April Skelton showing a Beltex to win Young Handler
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- Supreme Champion in the Poultry section, an Australorp Black displayed by steward Bob Driver
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- Adele Wray with Best Rabbit in Show, a Marten Sable Seal Rex
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- Yorkshire vet Peter Wright presents the trophy for the most points in the Honey Show to Chris Smailes
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- Lucy Wheal with a Marten Seal Sable Rex rabbit
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- Ridden Coloured Champion James Knight on Jodie Hook’s Papaver Dior, and Reserve Holly Gaunt with her own Picaso IV.
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- Rabbit steward Sheila Cornforth with one of the rabbit entrants
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- Mountain and Moorland Working Hunter Champion Annelise Stonehouse with Sal’s Girl, left, and Reserve Sophie Clements with Miss C Southringham’s Springwell Sam.
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- Mike Knaggs with Best in Show Norwich Cropper pigeon owned by his son, Adrian
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- Junior Northern Show Cross 70cm champion Charlies Angels (l-r) Sarah Proudly on Dude, Jake Gibson on Max & Charley Rae Nelson on Caleb
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- TV favourite Peter Wright of Channel 5’s The Yorkshire Vet
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- Geoff Billington
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- The Yorkshire Shepherdess, Amanda Owen
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- Supreme Beef Champion 2017