Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
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.
Quarry Farm Stables in Lingfield, Surrey, is a BHS-approved riding centre, Pony Club Centre and Changing Lives Through Horses centre run by coach Rosie Langbridge. It gives one-to-one lessons for all ages and levels, including lead-rein lessons for children aged 2 to 5.
The Royal Artillery Equestrian Centre is a 5-star, BHS-approved riding centre at Baker Barracks, Thorney Island, Emsworth. Founded in 1985, the charity provides riding for physical rehabilitation of wounded and injured service personnel, veterans and the local community.
Crofton Manor Equestrian Centre is an equestrian centre in Hampshire that runs a horse riding school. The centre hosts dressage, show jumping and showing events, with clinics, results and an event calendar published on its website. Stabling is available by arrangement, and livery enquiries go through the livery manager. The centre is located on Titchfield Road in Stubbington, Fareham.
Classical Riding Academy is run by Natasha Olivant, a BHS Accredited Coach working near Chichester across West Sussex, Hampshire and Surrey. She gives private lessons on schoolmasters or the rider's own horse, rooted in classical dressage and rider biomechanics. She also teaches on a Racewood riding simulator at Petersfield.
The Stables at Cissbury is a riding yard on the Cissbury Estate at Nepcote, West Sussex, in the South Downs National Park. It offers lessons, private hacks, pub rides and riding retreats with qualified instructors and a full-size arena. It also hosts corporate and team-building days.
Pinkmead Farm Equestrian Centre in Botley near Southampton is a licensed, BHS-approved riding centre and livery yard established for over 30 years. It gives riding instruction from beginners upwards and offers DIY to full livery. It has a Martin Collins indoor arena and hacking around the farm.
KV Equestrian Services is run by Kathryn Howard, a BHS Accredited Professional advanced coach near Taunton, Somerset. She offers mobile and online equestrian coaching, mindset and performance coaching, horse training and horse and pony rehabilitation. She works with riders and para-equestrians locally and nationally.
Easter Hall Park at Petrockstow, Devon, offers full or part-time livery, riding lessons, breaking and training. It has an all-weather outdoor schooling area and a smaller indoor area. It teaches carriage driving and runs equine training courses for apprentices and working pupils. It also sells woodland products and has holiday accommodation.
