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UK: South East: Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire


Promoted Routes

RouteLocationLength
The Claude Duval Bridleroute Cherwell, North Oxfordshire50 miles
80km
The RidgewayHerts, Bucks, Oxon, Berks, Wilts85 miles
137km
Lower Boddington and CropredyNorthamptonshire, Oxfordshire,
(near Warwickshire border)
16 miles
26km
Jubilee Ride: Stoke Lyne, Hethe and FringfordCherwell, North Oxfordshire9 miles
14.5km
The Three Downs Link
Opened 26 Sep 03
Berks, Oxon, Wilts, Hants

Other riding access opportunities

RouteLocation
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Ridgeway Downs on Horseback

This book contains a guide to 15 interesting circular trails and one linear trail in Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire.

Copies are available from British Horse Society, Stoneleigh Deer Park, Kenilworth, Warwickshire CV8 2XZ.


Where to stay
People wishing to try out the riding away from home may wish to know where they can keep their horses overnight. A useful book entitled Bed and Breakfast for Horses which lists places to keep a horse overnight can be purchased from the British Horse Society. Entries include:

  • June Collier, Collier's Bed and Breakfast and Horse Holidays, 55 Nethercote Road, Tackley, Kidlington, Oxfordshire OX5 3AT Tel: 01869 331255 Fax: 01869 331670 Email Website
  • Mrs Stella Cowan, Lockinge Kiln Farm, The Ridgeway, Chain Hill, Wantage, Oxfordshire OX12 8PA. Tel/Fax: 01235 763308 Email Website


Maps
Anyone riding in the area or wishing to plan a long distance or circular bridleroute may wish to use these 1:50,000 Landranger Ordnance Survey maps.