I bowt ewes there and t' lambs followed when they wandert back to their heaf.

The rest was plain; the heaf is the hill pasture where a lamb is born, and Swinset was fifteen miles away.

However, there were the lambs; one could trust a Herdwick to return to its heaf.

The broken wall marked the boundary of the Mireside heaf and the sheep were now on familiar ground.

He smiled as he reflected that he was like the Herdwicks that never forgot their native heaf; but while he longed for the red moors and straight-cut valleys he felt a stronger call.