Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Great Trethew Trekking is a licensed, ABRS+ approved, family-run riding school at Great Trethew Manor near Liskeard, Cornwall. It offers riding lessons, pony experiences, kids clubs, Pony Club and alternative provision. It also offers horsebox hire.
Caradon Hill Trekking and Equestrian Centre near Liskeard, Cornwall, is a licensed family-run riding centre. It offers private and group lessons, trekking, Saturday clubs, family rides and pony parties.
Fitzworthy Equestrian Centre is a livery and riding events centre in Dartmoor National Park run by BHS instructor Kim Northcott-Pilling. It offers private and group lessons on clients' own horses, fun days, hacks, a kids club, a riding club and arena hire.
Fairfields Farm Riding School & Livery near Ryde, Isle of Wight, offers riding lessons and livery. It was formerly Trotters and has moved to new premises at Fairfields Farm. It also runs events.
Fortune College, the Fortune Centre of Riding Therapy, is a specialist college in Dorset and Hampshire for young people aged 16 to 25 with special educational needs and disabilities. It uses horses as a motivator in its education. It offers sponsorship of horses and works with employers and care organisations.
Court Equestrian is a riding school, livery yard and teaching centre at Callow End near Worcester, started in 1995. It offers lessons, courses, hacks and activities for children, adults, schools and groups, including riders with special needs. It is an approved NVQ City & Guilds teaching centre.
KA Horses Equestrian Centre near Bridgnorth and Kidderminster offers a livery yard and riding lessons for adults and children. It also runs treks in the Shropshire countryside, Pony Club, tiny tots sessions, children's parties and pony loans. Equine dentistry is also offered.
Chorley Equestrian is a BHS-approved livery yard near Bridgnorth, Shropshire, with direct access to bridleways. Its onsite BHS instructor, Hailey Heeley, teaches lessons. Livery options include assisted DIY with year-round turnout.
Little Margate Equestrian is a family-run riding school and livery yard near Bodmin, Cornwall, run by BHS instructor Rachel Philpott. It offers lessons, Riding for the Disabled, equine therapy sessions, Pony Club, pony share schemes and birthday parties. Its horses range from Shetlands to competition ponies and cobs.
Wembury Bay Riding School is a family-run livery yard and riding school near Plymouth, Devon. It offers private and group lessons with qualified instructors, hacks, clubs and parties. It also offers livery.
Dittiscombe Equestrian Centre near Slapton in the South Hams, Devon, is a BHS approved riding school and registered livery yard. It offers tuition, Pony Club, clinics and camps. Livery options include DIY, full, holiday and schooling livery.
Lulworth Equestrian Centre is a BHS approved riding and livery centre in the Purbeck countryside of Dorset. It offers lessons and escorted hacks on its own horses and ponies, for riders from age 4. It also has livery spaces and runs events.
Sandford Stables, previously Woodhouse Farm Stables, is a family-run stables in Devon. It offers group, private and day rides, lessons and pony days for riders from age 4. It also offers training livery and carriage rides.
Finlake Riding Centre near Newton Abbot offers one-to-one and group lessons with qualified instructors, seven days a week. It runs hacks through 130 acres of private parkland and countryside. It also has a Saturday club and birthday parties.
Oaklands Riding School is a family-run riding school and livery yard near Exeter, established in 1971. It has around 50 riding school horses and several instructors. It offers private and group lessons and works with Riding for the Disabled.
Hitts Barton is a family-run livery yard in East Devon, under 10 miles from Exeter. It offers DIY to full livery and runs a small riding school. Facilities include floodlit indoor and outdoor arenas and a lunge pen.
Budleigh Salterton Riding School is a licensed riding school next to Woodbury Common in Devon. It is currently fully booked for new riders but can arrange one-off holiday rides. It offers full livery and backing and training of horses. Arena hire is available.
Upper Lordswood Stables near Ivybridge in South Devon offers equestrian coaching, lessons and training livery. It runs a BHS training academy for qualifications. Members of its equestrian academy get access to coaching and education.
Comeytrowe Equestrian is a fifty-acre family-run equestrian centre near Taunton, Somerset. It offers horse riding lessons and equestrian services. The site also lists horsebox hire, horses and Pony Club activities.
Jabeena Maslin Equestrian is a training yard in west Dorset led by Jabeena Maslin MBE. It takes horses for backing, schooling and competing and gives lessons and boot camps on its schoolmasters. It also trains riders for modern pentathlon and lists livery and sales.
Stoke Lane Stables is a riding school and approved Pony Club Linked Riding Centre. It offers riding lessons, hacking, grooming and stable management sessions, equine therapy for SEN children and pony pampering parties.
GP Equestrian is based at The Beeches in Sutton Veny, Wiltshire, run by BHSI accredited coach Gilles Serbource. It offers schooling livery, competition livery, coaching and training courses. Gilles competes internationally in eventing.
Vaux Park Polo Club at Wigborough Manor near South Petherton, Somerset runs polo chukkas, matches and arena lessons. Chukkas run on Wednesdays and weekends, with matches most weekends. Members pay club and HPA membership.
Three Greys Riding School at Pyecombe, West Sussex, is a family-run riding school established in 1963. It specialises in teaching beginners and nervous returners, and offers escorted hacks in the South Downs. It also offers livery and holds a 5-star council licence.
