Shropshire

The Shropshire breed of sheep originated from the hills of Shropshire, and North Staffordshire, England, during the 1840s. The breeders in the area used the local horned black-faced sheep and crossed them with a few breeds of white-faced sheep (Southdown, Cotswold, and Leicester). In 1855 the first Shropshires were imported into the United States (Virginia).