Constable Through the Meadow (2012)
“On the edge of the moors where I used to patrol, some of the fields are divided by rippling brooks which we call becks or gills, other boundaries are marked by the sturdy dry-stone walls of the region, and some make use of hedgerows or even timber-and-wire fencing. There are spacious flat fields used for the growth of cereals or the nourishment of herds of milk-producing cows, and tiny patches of grass which have the appearance of being artificially created from the heather or bracken of a wild... moorland hillside.
Some of the meadows adjacent to the moorland are almost too small to be considered fields or meadows, perhaps being better described as paddocks. One local name is intake because they have been cultivated after being securely walled from the wilderness of pervading heather, but they continue to provide a refuge for a few hens or moorland sheep, even a cow or horse.
Those on the edge of the moors usually contain a patch of smooth, short grass with very few flowers because the black-faced sheep of this region continually nibble at it until they produce a surface which is as smooth as a prize lawn.MoreLess
Some of the meadows adjacent to the moorland are almost too small to be considered fields or meadows, perhaps being better described as paddocks. One local name is intake because they have been cultivated after being securely walled from the wilderness of pervading heather, but they continue to provide a refuge for a few hens or moorland sheep, even a cow or horse.
Those on the edge of the moors usually contain a patch of smooth, short grass with very few flowers because the black-faced sheep of this region continually nibble at it until they produce a surface which is as smooth as a prize lawn.MoreLess
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