How good is the hacking where you are?

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Just wondering how 'good' is the hacking where you are? How much off road hacking do you have and how much and where are you?
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hacking is RUBBISH here. its all road work. admittedly only lanes, but no fields you can go on unless you hack for 3/4 hours and you may only find one field!
we are wilts/glous border
 
I'm Bolton way (since you're from lancs)

Amazing hacking, can be out for hours in fields/ moors and byways. Problem is that there's a very busy very fast road to get across before you can get to any of it, and a couple of fast roads with big traffic on to go up as well. And it's immediate really after you set off. The best hacks take about 20min-30min of road work to get to. Once Osc is sane again in summer i will be out all day though!
 
RUBBISH!In cambridge at the moment and it just seems crappy
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and I'm originally from the North where I had such good hacking (ahhh it was blissful....*stares off in dreamlike state*
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Well we have to hack up the roads to get there but...

FANTASTIC. We have the New Forest to ride around. It rather spoils you for riding anywhere else actually...
 
Total rubbish here too. Lanes, lanes and more lanes, hardly any off road, and if there is one or 2 at a push - its a boggy, rutty track. Can ride 45 mins on road to get up to the hills, thats nice, but the road ride back spoils it!! North Dorset here.
 
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I'm Bolton way (since you're from lancs)

Amazing hacking, can be out for hours in fields/ moors and byways. Problem is that there's a very busy very fast road to get across before you can get to any of it, and a couple of fast roads with big traffic on to go up as well. And it's immediate really after you set off. The best hacks take about 20min-30min of road work to get to. Once Osc is sane again in summer i will be out all day though!

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Im in Bolton!!
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But my hacking isnt great
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Absolutely fabulous!
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Been hunting all around it today and it makes me really appreciate just how lucky we are! We have miles of off road hacking and quiet country lanes to hack around - and loads of hunt jumps! I am in Leicestershire
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Rubbish, all roadwork, not a single bridleway within a 10 mile radius! As I live on the vale of York it is completly flat, so difficult to do fitness work with my eventers. Plus live right next to the main railway line from London to Scotland, so railway bridges to negotiate etc. The roads are quite busy as there are 2 caravan parks very close by, alot of arable farming, and huge lorries.
 
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Absolutely fabulous!
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Been hunting all around it today and it makes me really appreciate just how lucky we are! We have miles of off road hacking and quiet country lanes to hack around - and loads of hunt jumps! I am in Leicestershire
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Jealous
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Brill. A few lanes to go down then I'm off onto byways, one of which is a mile of grass straight down the centre of the local gallops! Even if the weather is atrocious there is always somewhere to have a decent canter. Coming from somewhere where there were two routes, both rutted gravel tracks. Since moving my horses have never been so fit! Near Salisbury
 
We have standard hacking, a variety of everything. Depending where you want to go. We have a few fields which can take between 10mns-1hour to get to (Farm Land), a variety of woods which are great between 20mins - 1hour to get to, alot of bridle ways, and open public bridle paths which are also footpaths which are big and open, not owned by farmers. We have quite good hacking, just not long stretches of things, but you can go out for 3hours and have gone through farm land, woods, and over about 10 fields, so quite a variety
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, and there are no main roads all lanes, inless you want to go up the golf course which you have to ride through the outskirts of the town
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. Hope that makes sense.
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I envy all you lot which live on the moors and in the new forest!
 
It's ok as have a very busy bridleway (an old railway track) that runs through the yard, it's not suitable for cantering on but leads to lots of rides around local villages and also some woodland. This rides range from 30 minutes up to a couple of hours.

Most of the set aside we were allowed to ride around is now closed for various reasons, so we only really have two bridleways going through fields where we can have a canter or gallop and to get to one of them you have to use a busy B road both of these rides take around 45 minutes.

We have numerous road rides with some steep hills included, but you have to use the busy B road to get to these, they range from 15 minutes to 1 hour.

If you are prepared to ride for more than 3 hours and use some very busy roads that make up half the route we have some very nice woodland rides.

I think our hacking is ok as we have a variety of routes and we not need to go on any roads if we don't want too, however it gets a bit samey as we use the one track to get to the majority of them, it's also very hard to do any fast work unless you want to do the same route over and over
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I'm in Kent and recently moved yards from what I thought was good hacking.The new place is amazing.Miles and miles of adjoining byways and bridleways and hardly any roadwork to do at all. The roadwork that is there is quiet single track lanes where you hardly ever come across a car at all.
 
Im in Easr Sussex just on the Kent border and the hacking is fab . I can go for miles with very minimal road work and thats quiet lanes and the local drivers respect the horses. My husband farms around here so I can use any headlands set aside or stubble fields. Another local farmer has opened up a lot of permissive bridleways too. so cant complain but just too wet to use it atm.
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Starts with 'C' and ends with 'p' and that's why I rarely ride anymore.

Yes, I have big tracts of Crown Forest to ride through, but in summer the bugs are awake and NO-ONE goes in there then, in fall and winter the ATV's chew up the tracks which then freeze solid, oh and the sodding County have seen fit to trash MY tracks on MY land so my lovely half mile straight sand gallop is impassable. I have an oval half mile track too, but, do you KNOW how boring that is to ride around, and around? Roads are flat and straight and BORING.

Until I move somewhere with some decent riding I really can't be bothered to even get on a horse.
 
You lucky thing, I am in East Sussex, we have NO off road riding, loads of fields and lovely land, it just belongs to stingy farmers who won't let us ride on it - Bah Humbug!
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But ... Camber Sands is only 10 mins drive away
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Not very good in South Warks either. Go one way out of the yard and you end up on the Fosse Way which i'll never go hacking on and go the other there are lanes which lead to Moreton Morrell college which are quite windy and have rather fast traffic (college students). My yard has a private farm ride around the outside of the fields which means in summer we dont have to go on the road but there isnt much hillwork which I like. Wish I had transport to go other places for rides.
 
I also live 10 minutes from Camber sands lol.I don't keep my horses that close though,but I happily travel the distance as the hacking and facilites more than make up for it.
 
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