Oh I know the area, I used to live North of Hadrian's Wall (but still in England by about 15 miles) and used to travel across the moors to Stanhope for spinning
. Beautiful countryside
The land will almost certainly take a lot less stock than you would get on the same in Yorkshire. Farmers talk acres per sheep in those parts, not sheep per acre
My username was chosen because I too, Sassenach that I am, felt myself to be in the Far North. To my embarrassment after I had been on TAS a while, I realised that of course the whole of England is south to a significant proportion of TAS members, including its founders and owners.
. Haltwhistle is in fact the geographical centre of Great Britain, so I was only very slightly over half way up!
Then of course Cumbrian farmers call Yorkshire "down south" and Londoners think Manchester is The North...
I'm in Cornwall now, so unequivocally South West! Lol.
Anyway, welcome to the forum
. What sort of sheep were you thinking of?