Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Tues 27 Oct
C & D Auction Marts held their weekly sale of 10,725 store lambs and feeding ewes at Longtown on Tuesday 27th October 2026.
A larger show of store sheep of all classes forward. Smaller running lambs looked to be dearer again on the week. With the small offering of short-term lambs looking to be slightly less on the week. Purchasers travelled from up and down the country looking for numbers of sheep which was certainly provided at Longtown this week.
Topping the sale was an expertly bred Blackface Tup Lamb from H & H Robson, Town Shields, Hexham realising £200.
Store Lambs
Blue Texel £152 Monk.
Texel– £150 Grindon Hill, £148 Low Longlands, £146 North Synton, Bloch & Mains, £144 Outer Huntly & Priesthaugh, £143 Pilmuir & Old Chapel.
Suffolk– £150 Bellbank, £145 Hepplehill, £144 Priesthaugh & Whiteknowe, £133 Bellbank, £132 Fowrass & Mossknowe.
Beltex– £142 Swaites, £137 Greenwell Meadows, £134 Monk, £130 Greenwell Meadows.
Dorset – £142, £134 Knock and Maize.
Mule– £140, £136 Whitchester, £133 Hepplehill, £132 Hightown & Knock and Maize, £128 Hightown, £126 Hareshaw.
Dutch Spotted £140 Lea Hill.
Cheviot– £137 Philiphaugh, £130 Blaebeck, £127 Skelfhill, £124 Knock and Maize, North House & Archbank, £122 Granton, £120 Twislehope & Blaebeck.
Cheviot Mule– £134 Bellbank, £124 Stobohill, £123 Outer Huntly, £120 Stobohill.
Easycare– £130 West Drummoddie, £116 Cleongart.
Hampshire – £125 Dyke.
Blackface– £120 Lanehead, £116 Collin Bank, Stell Green & Ladykirk, £114 Arnicle, £112 Collin Bank.
Kerry Hill – £120 Mossknowe.
Lleyn – £119, £113 Dimpleknowe.
Romney – £118 Yeldabrek.
North Country Cheviot– £117 Mains, £114 Bankhead, £112 North Synton.
Jacob – £112 Old Chapel.
Herdwick– £110 Low Longlands.
Swaledale– £80 Hesleywell, £76 Over Cairn.
Tup Lambs
Blackface– £200 Town Shields, £118 Toftholm, £114 Town Shields.
Texel– £140 Low Stokoe, £138 Pundershaw, £134 Dimpleknowe & Gillalees, £128 Hamburn Hall & Wooplaw.
Suffolk– £138 Priesthaugh, £1245 Shaw of Dryfe, £121 The Masters House.
Cheviot– £136 Bloch, £128 Old Post Office, £126 Toftholm.
Cross– £124 Hott, £114 Arnicle, £112 Upper Rigg.
Herdwick – £112 Roundstonefoot, £100 Low Longlands.
Blue Texel – £122 The Park.
Swaledale – £90 Hesleywell & The Park.
A larger show 1,370 feeding ewes and rams on offer with new faces appearing around the ringside looking for sheep. Many more feeding ewes could have been sold to vendors advantage.
Topping the sale was a pen of Texel ewes from C Ewart, Partridge Ghyll, Langholm realising £190.
Feeding Ewes
Texel – £190 Partridge Ghyll, £184, £172, £170 Windy Hill, £170 Gillalees & Powheads.
North Country Cheviot – £186 Old Post Office.
Suffolk– £185 Powheads, £178 Windy Hill.
Dutch Spotted– £160 West Drummoddie.
Cheviot– £160 Arkleton.
Mule– £150 Holebeck, £140 Gillalees, Over Cairn & Shaw of Dryfe, £138 Powheads, £134 Breconside Tower.
Blackface- £140 Gillalees, £124 Carnasserie.
Shetland – £124 High Hermitage.
Lleyn – £124 Dimpleknowe.
Easycare – £109 Glenzier, £104 West Drummoddie.
Swaledale– £100 Grange Farm.
Cast Rams
North Country Cheviot – £175, £148 Old Post Office.
Blackface– £145 Arnicle, £140 Gibblaston.
An end of season show of 446 breeding ewes sold to a top of £198 for four crop Mule ewes shown by R Simpson, Kirkhouse, Innertheithen with Texel ewe lambs selling to £172 from Philiphaugh Estate, Selkirk.
