FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Issued: 24th January 2008

Cute New arrivals at Mary Arden’s Farm

[Photo call notice: Photographers are invited to a photo call at 10.30am on Friday 25th January at Mary Arden’s Farm where you can meet the new arrivals and take the first photos of them. Please confirm your attendance to

Mary Arden’s Farm welcomes two new cute arrivals and invite you to come and visit them and learn about Tudor rural life in Shakespeare’s time.

Asbies Perdita, an eight-year-old rare breed English Longhorn cow gave birth to a healthy heifer calf this morning (24th January). This is her sixth calf to be born here at Mary Arden’s Farm and both are doing well.

The farm has also welcomed its first lamb of the year, yet to be named, from a new introduction of a rare breed sheep here at Mary Arden’s - the Manx Loaghtan ewe. Loaghtan, meaning mouse brown in Manx, have four horns and have descended from a type of sheep which once roamed many parts of Britain.

The two new arrivals are the first of many more which are expected over the next few weeks at the Tudor Farm where they will be cared for by our Tudor guides.

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Note to the Editor: Mary Arden's Farm is one of the five Shakespeare Houses and Gardens in and around Stratford-upon-Avon. The site includes the childhood home of Shakespeare's Mother and Palmer's Farm - a working Tudor Farm with costumed guides who run the farm and household every day as it would have been in Shakespeare's time.

For further information please contact Mari-Colette Undritz, Press and Marketing Officer for The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Tel. 01789 201845.