Ride with us all year through at Exmoor Owl and Hawk Centre for some of the best horse riding on Exmoor. Our rides stretch as far as you can see from our farm, covering Porlock Hill, Ley Hill, Dunkery, Grabbist, North Hill, Selworthy Beacon, and Porlock Vale, offering views to Devon, South Wales, The Quantocks, and beyond. We believe this wonderful landscape offers some of the best riding in the world, with ever changing scenery through the seasons, on quality riding horses to suit all riders. Ours are not trekking horses and we cover miles in our half day ride.

We hope you enjoy the scenery and National Trust countryside as much as we do!..............

This is our riding country - the Holnicote Estate,

given to the National Trust by Sir Francis Acland in 1944 for us all to enjoy. It offers a varied landscape of high heather moorland, ancient woodlands and dramatic cliffs, interspersed with picturesque villages and farms and spectacular scenery stretching across miles of moorland and coast.

Diverse and rare wildlife, including barbastelle bats and heath fritillary butterflies abound the hills and woods, with villages offering charming village cottages ranging from Medieval to 19th century and working farms home to Exmoor horn sheep and Exmoor ponies.

Bossington Hill

Spectacular panorama with views over maritime heathland, moorland and coast. It is a great starting point for woodland rides to Selworthy, Allerford and Bossington along rugged coastal paths. Churring nightjars can be heard on summer evenings. SS911477.

Dunkery Beacon

A vast expanse of open heather moorland, home to red deer and Exmoor ponies. It is also the highest point on Exmoor, making it an excellent spot to savour the breathtaking views over Dartmoor, Wales and the Severn Estuary. SS892415

Selworthy Village

A quintessential English village set on a hillside overlooking the Vale of Porlock, with stunning views to Dunkery Beacon. This charming village is complete with pretty thatched cottages set around a village green and an attractive white-washed church. SS920468

Dunkery and Horner Wood

One of the largest National Nature Reserves (NNR) in Britain. The ancient oak woodland contains some of the rarest lichens in the country and is home to fourteen species of bats. It is also one of the largest tracts of heather moorland in the south west, supporting a rich variety of upland birds. SS903438.

Text and pictures with kind permission of The National Trust

ONE HOUR RIDES

Throughout the year we are now pleased to take out riders on our one hour introductory rides, through the woods and up the combes.  Typically through the National Trust woods at Allerford to Selworthy village.

HALF DAY RIDE - 3 hrs approx.

North Hill, Selworthy Woods, and as far as Minehead, or over Ley Hill, through Horner Woods, Lucott Common, The countryside is endless, and riding trails offering days of good riding country. From our farm you can ride as far as you can see! Up to 12-15 miles in the half day ride!