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Cotswold Horse Tours

Guided experiences for horse enthusiasts based in Cirencester, Glouscester.
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21/06/2024

Everyone is going to the pub for lunch.

13/06/2024

A beautiful afternoon visiting a beautiful garden. The National Garden Scheme (NGS) raises money for charity as generous people open up their private gardens, for a few hours, to the garden-loving public. This garden has opened every year for 60 years

03/06/2024

One of the most fascinating buildings in an interesting city, Blackfriars was founded in 1239 and, remarkably, has survived largely intact. It was hidden almost in plain sight. Currently, it's under the care of Gloucester City Council and opens only on Sundays for half the year.

30/05/2024

Tall Ships Festival this past Bank Holiday weekend. Wonderful to see such ships moored up beside the 19th century warehouses that loom over the Gloucester docks. Live music, with groups singing on the decks as well as on the quayside, added to the buoyant atmosphere. A fun afternoon out and about.

20/05/2024

OK, so why a picture of a London street? I've no idea why a warning sign for horses was put up here. It's in the very busy, traffic filled area of Kings Cross.

16/05/2024

I did take photos when at the 2024 Badminton Horse Trials, on the Grassroots Championship day, Wednesday. An indication of the crowds attending Badminton, the first image is of the people watching the initial trot-up on Wednesday afternoon, before the 5* competition even began! The horses have to pass an inspection before they can start the three phases.

15/05/2024

Sunny day in town. It made me laugh.

07/05/2024

"Oh to be in England, now that spring is there". No horse today: it was shank's pony, but the flowers were stunning.

28/04/2024

Last horse of the day at BE Cirencester Park, seen from our fence, the second to last. Yay! A long but good day.

Park

20/04/2024

A cheery buzz at the Stroud Farmers Market today. I challenged the orchard man to suggest the best apple-variety juice to go with the Single Gloucester cheese. It was either "Tom Putt" or "Nine of Diamonds". Great names on old apples!

16/04/2024

The River Thames, four fields down from the official source, looking very fine in the springtime.

14/04/2024

Yay! First Event of the season as the sun shines and the ground dries. Not me riding: I was a Fence Judge.

06/04/2024

The world of horses is a little waterlogged at present, with cancellations everywhere, from Eventing to Pointing.

However, apparently there is a parallel world of mechanical horse power. This vintage Villiers motorbike has had one careful previous owner, it was last licenced in 1971, is a "special" because it is blue rather than green, has push-bike handlebars, has original tyres made by a company called 'British Bulldog', has spokes that are rusted through, cables rotted away, is so covered in decades of grease it's new owner is scratching his head about how to clean it off - but nevertheless a stranger walks up to look and discuss and suggest and to sincerely hope that it gets back on the road soon. Yes, the passerby has a motorbike too. Not just horse people then....

09/03/2024

Beaufort Races today. Point to Point racing allows one to get really close to the action and the people watching is fascinating. The local farm-produced beefburger was very tasty, too.

07/03/2024

Spotting historic signs of city horses. When one knows where to look, the evidence can be easily found. Cobble sets laid down for the horse to walk on. Long smooth stones, in parallel, for the wheels of the vehicles. The rounded structure on the left was designed to protect the wall from being struck by the axle of the wheel in the fairly tight passage. The narrow entrance then opens out into a yard or a road of stables known, in London, as "mews". These days, in some places, such as here in Kilburn, they are scruffy workshops, car maintenance or storage in cheaply built structures. In others, such as Mayfair or Kensington, where the mews were built for large private houses, they have been converted into highly desirable and very expensive residences.

02/03/2024

March is here. Today the local Point to Point was postponed because of snow on the course. The first snow of the winter! So instead, some pictures of churches and wild daffodils after an excellent day on a "magical mystery tour", guided only by four postcodes inserted into the car satnav.

01/02/2024

Surprisingly mild day for a February hack

26/01/2024

Visit to a 5*Eventer's Yard to watch a fascinating coaching session with two young horses then on to a tasty lunch at Burton Farm Shop and Kitchen - where the cake display was most impressive.

24/01/2024

Polo ponies on their winter holidays, then some Cotswold general winter scenes

21/01/2024

A glorious clear, still, cold morning and this bench invited me to sit down and contemplate the beauty of winter. The dedication on it reads "Some I just sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits. 1997".

14/01/2024

I frequently suggest to our clients that they should attend Evensong at Gloucester cathedral. It is an experience that is a feast for ears and eyes as well as being a beautiful, contemplative end to a day.

12/01/2024

An extraordinary winter light low sunshine causing the church window to shine like silver. The early 14th century rose window is one of the many treasures in Minchinhampton parish church.

30/12/2023

The Cotswolds are excellent for walking, with miles of paths and byways and Cotswold brash, the stoney limestone soil, that drains well. The same conditions that make the riding so good. This was a morning beside the River Coln, a couple of miles from the tourist coaches in Bibury.

27/12/2023

The traditional Boxing Day Meet, 26th December. All across the country, thousands turn out to see the spectacle of the local hunt.

25/12/2023

Happy Christmas everyone.

23/12/2023

Being invited up onto this wonderful traction engine in town today and then being allowed to blast the steam whistle, well, that made my entire Christmas. Toot, toooot, toooooooot!!

18/12/2023

Hairy cobs, in their natural state of winter hairiness, grazing on some Cotswold common land today

16/12/2023

Midweek meet of Foxhounds in a local farmyard. Possibly, however, a tradition for only a few more years.

07/12/2023

The Cotswolds have a vast reputation for their romantic charm and photogenic prettiness, the honey coloured villages that glow in the sunshine. But today it was wet, windy, cold, muddy and the hard rock so close beneath the surface was very apparent.

05/12/2023

Ride or walk, a route used by people moving across the landscape over uncountable centuries.

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Opening Hours

Monday	09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday	09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday	09:00 - 17:00
Thursday	09:00 - 17:00
Friday	09:00 - 17:00
Saturday	09:00 - 17:00
Sunday	09:00 - 17:00

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+447957219855

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http://www.cotswoldhorsetours.co.uk/

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Team chasing. Eventing on steroids and spectators can get really close to the action.

Aiming for 'best shod' at the Horse of the Year Show, making shoes from scratch up at the stables #rich meredith

Autumn is here, colour in the hedgerows... Oh, and look, nosey black lab is here too.

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