TWO ghost cows shone a light on a unique project to celebrate a national park’s most iconic buildings.

The ghost cows were brought in from Kisdon Hill at Muker in Swaledale, by a local choir, residents and children in a celebration to mark the end of the Every Barn Tells a Story project.

Over the past two years the £86,000 project has recorded and shared the history of the barns, and Swaledale’s distinctive field barn system. They were largely used as cowhouses and fell out of traditional use around 40 years ago

Children from Muker parish made two calves and a sheepdog, to accompany the cows which were made of willow sticks and paper.

Dales Park interpretation officer Karen Griffiths said :“Every time I opened the door and stepped into one of these empty, silent cowhouses, those stories followed me like ghosts, so the idea for Ghost Cow Night was born. I hope it was a fitting celebration for the end of a truly magical project.”