Western Isles. There is also a Northumberland Blackface, which is large with relatively soft wool, but is not classed as a distinct type.

The Blackface is the most numerous sheep breed of the United Kingdom: in the last decade of the twentieth century, approximately 14% of all ewes in the country were of this breed. In the early 2000s there were some ewes, about half as many again as the number of Welsh Mountain