The move comes after inspectors confirmed an outbreak of the disease. ITN looks back at the epidemic which brought British farming to its knees in the 1960s. In 1967 British farming was brought to its knees as the as almost half a million animals were slaughtered. That outbreak is still the subject of many angry discussions in countryside circles today.
Many farmers are are unable, and often unwilling, to forget.
It also serves as a reminder of how a single disease can cause so much damage. Countryside in quarantine Large areas of the country were put in isolated quarantine as desperate measures to halt its progress were employed. Five-mile exclusion zones, similar to those imposed now, were so common that they began to overlap as each new case was identified. The epidemic, which became known as Great Cattle Plague, spread quickly. Beginning on October 25 with a single case near the market town of Oswestry, Shropshire, it was five months before it was brought under control.