HE Ryeland sheep is a Cotswold breed so fluffy it seems you could knit a twin-set from the contents of its ears. In medieval England the wool from the Ryeland was of such value it was nicknamed ‘Leominster ore’. The fleeces of sheep such as the Ryeland, the Cotswold and the Yorkshire equivalent, the cream-coloured Longwool that was kept by the monks of the county’s 15 Cistercian monasteries, created Britain’s
