Lings Lane Riding Stables

This is my truly favourite riding school, not only BHS-​approved, there are wonderful horses, staff and dogs. I haven’t been there for long, only a few lessons, I have yet to try riding in their arena. I only did hacks and stable management there. There’s a cute donkey and geese nearby. It offers lesson types I cannot find in another local riding school. The only con for this riding school I can think of is that I have to do high speed gallop elsewhere, but it cannot really be helped when bridleways are being closed down.

I have currently been at this stables for just over 9 years and going here was one of the best decisions I have ever made. After suffering a fall at the age of 7 I left another stables and had almost given up riding altogether. One of my mums friends took me out for a hack on a lovely old horse there called Poppy to help me regain my confidence. After this I booked a private lesson to assess my ability before joining in one of the group lessons on a Sunday, and I have been going ever since!
The horses there are absolute angels and come in a multitude of shapes, sizes and speeds. There are some lovely ponies for the children to begin to ride on and whom I would trust fully as well as some other ponies for the more advanced riders to practice jumping and gymkana games on. The larger horses are also lovely to ride and do both lessons and hacks for all levels of riders. Each horse is different to ride and you never feel like you’re put on a horse you can’t manage, the instructors are also very understanding if you do not wish to ride the horse you are given.
The lessons vary in level with some lead rein rides and some more advanced group lessons that take part in jumping and cross country. All the instructors are fully qualified and friendly and know the horses inside out. There are varying lengths of hacks available too, you can easily spend an hour on the lanes that border the stables without needing to go on the roads or there are longer 2 and 3 hour rides that include roadwork, and all the horses that do these rides are road safe. I have also been on a couple of day rides that last just over 6 hours and these are amazing!
I also help out at the stables every Sunday and thoroughly enjoy this. We make sure all the horses are groomed and watered and loved as well, though we all have our own favourites! I would thoroughly recommend Lings Lane to anyone wanting somewhere to ride, or somewhere to learn as it is a beautiful stables with friendly staff and lovely horses!