Amanda Owen: ‘New farm is for children’s future’

Owen rose to fame through a series of TV shows focusing on her life at the remote farm in the Yorkshire Dales where she has lived with her now ex-husband, Clive, for nearly 30 years.

She said she did not know which members of her family would move to the new farmhouse, know as Anty John’s, and who will stay at Ravenseat.

“Don’t ask me who’s going to move in, I’ve no idea,” she said.

“But I have plenty of people who are vying to move in.

“It’s all about looking to the future, the children and making it that they have the ability to stay around here and to be able to find work around here.”

She said owning Anty John’s marked a major change after so many years as tenant farmers.

“When you live in a tenanted place, like Ravenseat, it is home and I love the place, but in the middle of the night when you’re having a bit of a stress and a worry of course you think to yourself ‘but actually, it’s not mine’. So it’s about security.”