Trail Riding

Few riding centres can be so ideally suited to riding totally off road. Our riding trails have been blessed with the finest views and monuments in Wiltshire. The Ridgeway, Wansdyke, and Silbury Hill coupled with the view of the Avebury Stones, and Kennett Long Barrow are simply breathtaking. Our trail riding has a marvellous way of enabling you to escape from reality, even if just for an hour! Our safe horses and professional staff can take you on a journey through miles of unspoilt countryside. Whether a wild winter’s day or a lazy summer’s afternoon we will be more than happy to arrange your day.

If you are looking for trail rides that are more challenging, then check out our Long Distance page – not for the faint hearted!

Quote from Joanna Bedford

"From the top of the chalk track up onto the glorious Downs between Milk Hill and Tan Hill you can see for endless miles in all directions. It’s the most beautiful view and the most beautiful place in the world in my opinion. Even in winter when it’s mysterious or misty, or with rolling clouds casting huge shadows into the bowls and folds of the hill, it is magical. To be up there on a good day on a good horse is quite simply bliss. The larks sing their heads off - no shortage of larks here, the ground in summer is a carpet of harebells, wild orchids, cowslips, scabius, wild thyme, little blue butterflies flutter about - and you can ride for hours along the Wansdyke and other ancient tracks, from Westbury to Oare, over to Avebury for a pub lunch, through West Woods and Gopher Woods where bluebells and wild garlic make you drunk with scent and colour, even along the Ridgeway to Goring-on-Thames if you know the right B&Bs.

We are incredibly lucky to have the Pewsey Vale Riding Centre at Stanton St Bernard just at the foot of the Downs. It’s an extremely well run and friendly yard with an electric stable of horses, ranging from the frivolously frisky to the serenely staid, and from minuscule ponies to huge 17hh heavyweight hunters. I am madly in love with the horse I ride - well he’s utterly gorgeous, heaven to ride and a perfect gentlemen who blows down the back of my neck with the softest of breaths. I started riding again after a break of over thirty years, I am now fitter and happier, and I would urge anyone who has ever ridden to get back on a horse without delay. And, anyone who’s never ridden, start NOW, it’ll be the best thing you have ever done."