My description has chronicled revised representation of rurality as incorporating heterogeneous types of spaces and activities, and has summarised policies and mechanisms for implementation that objectify resulting images as concrete rural localities. Only one of these activities, now in decline, is agriculture. I have now reached the limits of my analysis. The next step is to conduct further ethnographic research in Teviotdale. As I mentioned previously, Teviotdale was also part of the area infected with foot-and-mouth disease in 2001. These two events provide a complex context within which hill sheep farmers have adapted their farming practices. My aim for my next period of fieldwork in Teviotdale is to find out what has happened to its rural landscape and society as a result of the way hill sheep farmers have appropriated the reformed policies and mechanisms into their farming practices, and the effects on their sense of what it means to live on family farms in a rural place.