For millions of viewers, the stone walls, windswept fields and surrounding moorland of Ravenseat Farm became almost as recognisable as the family who lived there.
The remote Yorkshire Dales farm was the setting for Channel 5's Our Yorkshire Farm, which followed Amanda Owen, former husband Clive and their nine children as they tackled lambing, severe winters and everyday family life in one of the most isolated corners of North Yorkshire.
Now Ravenseat is once again appearing on television alongside neighbouring Anty John's farmhouse in Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids.
But away from the television cameras, Ravenseat's location helps explain why life there has proved so compelling to viewers.
Where is Ravenseat Farm?
Ravenseat sits in Upper Swaledale, close to the head of the dale and surrounded by some of the wildest countryside in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
The farm is nestled in tiny Whitsundale, with the National Park Authority itself describing Ravenseat as being in a particularly remote spot and a long way from everyday amenities.
Anty John's on Ravenseat Farm
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Amanda and her family farm around 2,000 acres there, with Ravenseat predominantly operating as a sheep farm.
Its size sounds enormous, but much of the land is exposed upland rather than the flatter fields traditionally associated with farms elsewhere in the country.
That terrain has repeatedly featured in the family's television programmes, particularly during winter when snow, flooding and freezing conditions can make even routine farming jobs difficult.
The surrounding landscape is so remote that the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority describes upland farms such as Ravenseat as among the relatively few settlements found around the heads of the northern dales.
What does the name Ravenseat mean?
There is also more history hidden in the farm's unusual name.
Research highlighted by the Yorkshire Dales National Park's Every Barn Tells a Story project links names ending in "seat" in this part of the Dales to old summer grazing grounds.
Ravenseat has been traced to the Old Norse "Hrafn sætr", which can be interpreted as "Raven's Pasture".
The word "sætr" was used for a summer pasture or dwelling, reflecting the Scandinavian influence that can still be found in place names throughout the Yorkshire Dales.
It means the name viewers came to associate with Amanda Owen's family potentially stretches back many centuries before television arrived in Swaledale.
The famous path running through Ravenseat
Despite its isolation, Ravenseat is crossed by one of Britain's best-known long-distance walking routes.
The Coast to Coast path passes through the farm as it crosses the Pennines on its journey between St Bees in Cumbria and Robin Hood's Bay on the North Yorkshire coast.
The route has brought walkers through Ravenseat for years.
In 2019, Yorkshire Dales National Park rangers carried out work on a particularly boggy section of the Coast to Coast route at the farm, laying stone flags and constructing a traditional clapper bridge to reduce erosion.
Long before the height of Our Yorkshire Farm's popularity, Ravenseat was also a destination for organised walks.
The Anty John's house
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An official Yorkshire Dales events programme from 2016 advertised a guided trip from Keld to Ravenseat where visitors could meet Amanda and have one of her cream teas before walking back along the Coast to Coast path.
How remote is Amanda Owen's farm?
The isolation viewers see on television is not simply created for the cameras.
Ravenseat sits amid open moorland towards the western end of Swaledale, with settlements becoming increasingly small and scattered as the dale climbs towards the Pennines.
Keld is among the closest villages, while the moorland road beyond the area eventually heads towards Kirkby Stephen and Cumbria.
The National Park Authority has previously remarked on how far Ravenseat is from the nearest shop, adding that its position makes it easy to understand why the Owen family have traditionally needed to be particularly self-sufficient.
That remoteness became one of the defining characteristics of Our Yorkshire Farm.
Rather than simply showing life on a farm, the programme documented a family raising nine children in a place where the weather and distance from larger towns could turn ordinary jobs into significant challenges.
Ravenseat before Our Yorkshire Farm
Amanda and Clive's television story actually began several years before Our Yorkshire Farm.
The family appeared in ITV series The Dales in 2011 and later featured on Ben Fogle's New Lives in the Wild UK.
Their growing profile eventually led to Our Yorkshire Farm on Channel 5, putting Ravenseat and Upper Swaledale in front of a national audience.
The Owen family
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The programme followed the family through farming seasons as the children grew up, regularly showing them helping with animals and jobs around Ravenseat.
Its landscape became an important part of the programme's identity, with huge stretches of moorland, traditional stone barns and rapidly changing weather providing the backdrop.
What is happening at Ravenseat now?
Ravenseat remains part of the family's television story, but attention has increasingly shifted towards another property nearby.
Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids follows the family restoring the centuries-old farmhouse known as Anty John's.
Channel 4 says the property was derelict when the Owens began the project and is being transformed into a modern home, while cameras continue to follow everyday farming life at Ravenseat.
Series three and four move the Anty John's project inside after major work on the exterior, with jobs including plumbing, installing running water and deciding how the rooms will eventually look.
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Amanda is also researching the history of the farmhouse and Anthony Clarkson, the Swaledale map-maker associated with the property.
It means viewers now see two sides of the same remote corner of the Dales: Ravenseat, the farm which made the family famous, and Anty John's, the ambitious restoration project shaping their next chapter.
Yet Ravenseat remains the place at the heart of the story – a 2,000-acre hill farm tucked among the moors of Upper Swaledale whose extraordinary location helped turn an ordinary farming family's life into one of Channel 5's best-known rural