Our Yorkshire Farm star Amanda Owen has received heartwarming support from fans after she shared a ‘tragic’ update on social media.

The mother-of-nine was the face of the Channel 5 series alongside her now ex-husband Clive, with the cameras following their busy lives raising both children and livestock.

Now, the 50-year-old is ‘incensed and angered’ at a shocking act of vandalism she discovered while walking through her beloved stretch of Yorkshire countryside.

Underneath a video shared with her 534,000 Instagram followers, the presenter wrote: ‘Cross, cross, cross. This is not the normal kind of post I do, not the kind of post that I want to do.

‘I know that it will not make any difference whatsoever but still I hope that someone, somewhere, might feel a little uncomfortable or even ashamed.

‘These places are invaluable, a part of our history and heritage, they do not formally belong to anyone but have been used for centuries by shepherds, farmers and commoners. They are still in use to this day.’

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Our Yorkshire Farm star Amanda Owen is ‘incensed and angered’ at a shocking act of vandalism she discovered while walking through her beloved stretch of Yorkshire countryside

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In a video shared with her 534,000 Instagram followers, the presenter showed what appears to be torn up stone slabs in the ground

Amanda filmed herself speaking angrily, devastated at the scale of the destruction.

‘This is not the kind of thing that I would normally be reckoning to put on social media,’ she said. ‘But this has incensed and angered me so enormously.

‘No, not a gap in the wall,’ Amanda said, gesturing to a crumbling stone wall. ‘That happens, and that can be remedied. I’m talking about this.’

Pointing towards what appears to be torn up stone slabs in the ground, Amanda says: ‘You might ask yourself, ‘What has happened there?’ I’ll tell you what has happened there.

‘At some point in the last couple of days, probably in the middle of the night, somebody has come to these pens on the border between Cumbria and Yorkshire, and they have come into these beautiful pens that have stood here for centuries.

‘And they have dug up and taken the flags out of the floor. Can you imagine, this floor has stood the test of time. It has been here for hundreds of years.’

Amanda stressed that the site was one of great historical importance and remains in use to this day.

‘This isn’t a place that isn’t used,’ she continued. ‘This is a place that has got history.’

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Amanda stressed that the site was one of great historical importance and remains in use to this day

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Amanda films herself speaking angrily, then pans to the destroyed ground, devastated at the scale of the destruction

‘Look. See the beautiful cobbles, see how this is maintained and looked after. This is a little building where the shepherds and farmers in our area actually bring our sheep, when we’ve gathered them in and actually worked in them and put strays in here.

‘But at some point over the last couple of days, somebody has taken it upon themselves to desecrate it, whether they had a job for these flags or whether they just got them because they thought nobody was using this place.

‘I think that absolutely stinks, it’s our heritage, it’s an ancient, ancient place, and I don’t see that there’s any need to do that kind of thing.’

Avid fans were furious and flocked to the comments to express their shock and sympathy.

One person wrote: ‘That is just so tragic! No respect for things anymore. I’m so very sorry to see this.’

Another echoed the sentiment, writing: ‘People just don’t care anymore, they think they are entitled to do and take whatever they want. It really boils my blood!’

Avid fans were furious and flocked to the comments to express their shock and sympathy

‘Rightly done to bring this desecration to people’s attention! You are a protector and custodian of the countryside,’ said a third.

Many commenters suggested the incident was reflective of an overall decline of respect for others, with one writing: ‘Absolutely deplorable behaviour.

‘Sadly, it seems to be the growing nature of society in Britain. Fewer and fewer people have respect for other people’s property or even other people!

‘It saddens me to the core to see the very fabric of British society disintegrating. The culprits get off scot-free, because there appears to be no law to apprehend them! I despair!’

One person put it simply: ‘Raging. Horrific behaviour,’ while another wrote: ‘Outrageous.’