What sort of path surface?

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We are about to erect a couple of stables and tack-room in our garden, the access to which will be down the side of the garden next to a beech hedge. Can anyone suggest a suitable surface for a pathway to get to the stables? It will be adjoining grass lawn so needs to be easy to mow up to and not look too "industrial". We have rejected gravel as it gets all over the grass. Are currently considering olithic scalpings which are like cobbles which when packed down set rock hard. Also thinking about honeycomb rubber matting which allows the grass to grow up through it while providing a sound base. Does anyone have any experience of these ..... or any better suggestions? Thanks.
 
We have stables and yard at the side of the house
The Stables are on a concrete yard which has been down for 27 years and as BoF says is completely maintenance free It does need to be thick and have good expansion joints .
Concrete I would recommend for good area around the yard so horses can be tied up outside or shod there.
The horses access the fields via a track which runs down the side of the garden next to a hawthorn hedge.We have made it into a corridor so the horses can be let out rather than lead individually if only one of us is turning out or getting in solo,
The track was dug out and a deep chalk base put down Scalpings on as a surface .We do top it up every so often with extra scalps but we find it a surface with more give than concrete surface as the horses do tend to trot on it.
We have got honeycombe matting making a round pen and also making corridor to our arena This track the horses are only ever lead down or ridden at wallk .
The honeycombe matting is nice and looks attractive as it runs down the side of the field but the gadge of matting needed for horse use is very expensive ( our track cost nearly £1000 including grass seeding for about 40 meteres .
You also need to lay it when the grass is growing well and keep EVERYTHING off it until it is really well established about 6months we have found It also needs to be mown eavery week during that period to promote a really thick base .I don't think I would ever let the horses have free access on it as we do with the scalps track.
Hope this helps
 
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