Haven Herefords

Many animals were exported from The Woodhouse Herd especially to the United States of America in the boom years of the 1880s,[3] although Hereford cattle had first been introduced to the country in either 1816 or 1817.

[4] Among the 1880s sales was Woodhouse Dowager 6th whom Messrs. Gudgell & Simpson bought, along with Anxiety 4th,[note 1] in 1881[6] and became the cornerstone of the Hereford breed's presence in the US.

James Lewis[9] moved from The Woodhouse when he married Margaret Bray, whose grandfather was a nephew of Benjamin Tomkins, the original breeder of the Hereford.

[2] Among his most successful bulls during this period was Leyburn, a notable breeder of the day who produced a son, Haven Turgot, who was Champion at Hereford Show and Sale in 1917.

This being the period of the Great Depression, the first ten years of his breeding was concentrated on survival and maintenance of the best attributes of the Hereford strain.