Thank you for your enquiry.  If you look on the breed society's web site   www.herdwick-sheep.com    you should be able find some breeders who are within striking distance of where you live. The Society Secretary should be able to advise you. I can certainly recommend the Herdwick. They are very hardy and cope well with poor grazing. They are docile and friendly once they know you and the lambs are particularly attractive.  When we have visitors to our farm at lambing time, and the children sit on straw bales holding lambs, it is always the Herwicks that settle down and go to sleep on the laps of the children. Herdwick meat is much sought after by enthusiasts as it is extremely good. We have a butcher in our area who supplies meat for formal dinners at Cambridge Colleges and the London livery companies and he brings Herdwicks down from the Lake District every year and finishes them down here in order to meet this demand. You will be lucky to finish a Herdwick for the butcher in its first year unless it was a very early lamb. They tend to stay small over winter and then rush ahead once the spring grass arrives and they make an excellent hogget carcass.