Ask the hotel about their "safaris", on which, if you are lucky, you can see all the "big four": golden eagle, red deer, Highland cow and red squirrel.

In September 2007, the UK reported its first ever suspected case of the disease, in a Highland cow on a rare breeds farm near Ipswich, Suffolk.

It is now one of the only hamlets in Gloucestershire that farms Highland cows.

In 2002, the current iteration of Miles Smith Farm is founded with just two pregnant Scottish Highland cows.

He promised her a Highland cow.

"So finally I said, after everything else had failed to get her to be in the movie, I will get you a Highland cow."

On 6 October 2012 a Highland cow escaped the nearby Pollok Park and walked the rail line to this station where it was captured and returned.

Renowned for animal-assisted therapy, Green Chimneys maintains a farm with ponies, Cotswold sheep, Highland cows, Nigerian dwarf goats, rabbits and chickens.

Improbably, above the bed had been mounted the head of a Highland cow.

Farmer Bill Castles with Anna the Highland cow.