A farmer was left stunned when an irate motorist blasted their 60-year-old tradition of moving cattle across a road as “inconsiderate” to commuters.

Margaret Lees, 53, whose in-laws started Park Farm in Walmersley, Gtr Manchester, in 1958, moves her cows to their pasture twice a day between April and October.

And she said many locals loved seeing her 50-strong dairy herd and their calves spend five minutes crossing Manchester Road in the village.

But last week, the brief pause in traffic at 8.30am caused one driver to phone up her farm shop and rage at her employees about the rural practice.

After she posted about the incident on social media, she was “overwhelmed” by support from her community – and vowed to keep up the long-standing tradition.