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i was just wondering what area has the best hacking, where i live in Lincolnshire there are still a few nice areas where you can get off road but you usualy have to cross busy A roads or you meet up with large Agriculture traffic on small lanes and roads also artic lorries. we live in a very busy agriculture part of the country and we also have many factorys where lorries are constantly in and out
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Are there still parts of the country where you can have a long hack without going on the roads????
 
I live in the New Forest in Hampshire - I can ride out of my gate, straight on to a gravel track, and one minute later I am on the Forest - I can then ride for hours without having to touch a road. When its wet, I can keep to higher ground to avoid the bogs, and in the summer when the ground is hard, I can still have a good gallop on soft sandy tracks, and get out of the heat by riding in the enclosures - I can also ride to a number of pubs, who very kindly provide places to tie your horse up.
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I know I am very lucky, and never take it for granted.
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I live in the New Forest in Hampshire - I can ride out of my gate, straight on to a gravel track, and one minute later I am on the Forest - I can then ride for hours without having to touch a road. When its wet, I can keep to higher ground to avoid the bogs, and in the summer when the ground is hard, I can still have a good gallop on soft sandy tracks, and get out of the heat by riding in the enclosures - I can also ride to a number of pubs, who very kindly provide places to tie your horse up.
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I know I am very lucky, and never take it for granted.
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Lucky sod !!!!
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We too have direct access to the Woods and North York Moors
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Straight out of the gate and into the woods. I can ride out for as long as my heart desires (was out 7hrs once) and never run out of paths and places to ride.

We have thousands of places to have a gallop. Absolutely stunning scenery too.

It is the most wonderful place!
 
Hi Sprout and Guisbrogal it sounds great i knew i moved to the wrong area lol I surpose house prices are high there, I have a friend that lives in Swaledale in North Yorkshire and he never has to touch a road he just goes straight out on the moors (I think i really must move again) lol
 
I ride out of my yard, across a lane and I am then in the forest. I can ride for miles and miles on dirt tracks and firebreaks. If I need to ride on the road they are very quiet (although I usually get off and walk as FB finds tarmac hard work). We are planning a 25km trip to the farm to collect Jiro and I reckon 3km of that is on roads, the rest is mountainside, forest and heathland.
 
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I live in the New Forest in Hampshire - I can ride out of my gate, straight on to a gravel track, and one minute later I am on the Forest - I can then ride for hours without having to touch a road. When its wet, I can keep to higher ground to avoid the bogs, and in the summer when the ground is hard, I can still have a good gallop on soft sandy tracks, and get out of the heat by riding in the enclosures - I can also ride to a number of pubs, who very kindly provide places to tie your horse up.

I know I am very lucky, and never take it for granted.



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Ditto, there is nothing in this country to rival the New Forest for riding IMHO!
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I have to do a short stretch up the side of an A road then I'm onto miles and miles of green lanes around the Malborough Downs, or I can cross the road and ride for miles over the Pewsey downs. It is stunning.
I do agree the new forest is fabulous. I've also ridden on Exmoor which was great too.
 
Me Me Me! I have 700 acres of off road farm land that then leads to the flitch way- a 17 mile bridleway that is managed and has an arena type surface on it (so never muddy or too hard) then 350 acres of forest after that..... I loooooove the hacking here- I'm going to miss it!
 
O my god I'm sooooo jealous it all sounds lovely, New forest sounds the place to be but i must admit the thought of riding on the moors sounds nice
 
shadowmonkey, why? are you moving? i think i'd live in a tent just to keep that sort of hacking around me lol This really makes me think of my hacking totaly Pants Where are you from, I think we will all move there lol
 
We have hack envy here!

I think we must win the prize of worst hacking : roads, roads, 100mtrs bridleway, roads, bit of grass verge (canter if no buses), country park 1 path when the cows are not about and wach out for the dog walkers, nasty bendy country lane with speeding cars, equally nasty fast B road with lots more fast cars in a 40 & then 30 limit, but you can't really expect much on the edge of Reading!

I want to move!
 
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Im so jealous of you all as we have nowhere and I mean nowhere to hack to unless you want to do hours of roadwork first.
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But I suppose thats what you get living on the outskirts of London. We do box out to lovely places but not quite the same.
 
I'm non glamorous North Beds but I can do a 2 hour hack with 2 stretches of 2-300 yards road work or 3 hours if I add another 30 yards - but that one does involve 4 gates!. We are thinking of planning a couple of moonlight rides around the farm this autumn.
What I am short of is decent pubs to ride to that are open at lunchtime next week! And beaches obviously.
 
im so jealous as well, we are surrounded by main roads, so either have to cross one or go along one to get anywhere half quiet, and nowadays most car drivers dont slow down, so not much fun.

cant wait til i get my own house hopefully it will have better hacking.
 
We are really lucky - apart from lots of well maintained bridleway we also have a toll ride that my yard is in the middle of - it is 18 miles of off road hacking around a lovely old estate - is maintained for us all year so never gets to over grown etc. Even without that there is plenty of nice bridleways - the only roads are lanes - 2 are 'busy' main roads but you only do a max of 100 yards on them and still probably don't see a car. It is quite common to go out for 3 hours and not have a single car pass you.

The problem we have is not enough people using the toll ride!! Anyone who wants to come and try it is welcome - we are in Rutland!! and we have hills for those of you in the fens.......
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We are stuck in the middle of Birmingham.
No great hacking anywhere. places we used to sneak into now have gates everywhere....to stop joyriders leaving burnt out cars in them!
Most of the kids round where we are have never seen a horse and don't know whether to throw sticks at it, run at it screaming in a brave heart stylee or eat it!
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Sounds lovely, how much is the toll (sorry to be thick lol) is Rutland in Lincolnshire or near it? i'm sure i'v heard of it
 
I'd love the detail please, you are about 11/2hours drive from me so you never know might be possible to do at some stage, can you park near by
 
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MrsM - that would be so much fun!!
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You on the Dizz and me on the BGL - we can see who can throw the best shapes!!
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Daughter can go off on a hoolie with neice round the fields.....
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OP will have to come too
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. Maybe we should have Hacking Meets around the country
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Dizz is currently into showing what wonderful piaffe and passages she can do
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. We're getting some lovely lateral moves (okay, I was asking for a walk forwards, but hey, you can't have everything lol).
 
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