Outovercott Riding Stables

Riding can be one of the most enjoyable ways of seeing our part of Exmoor and the coast. We offer horses and ponies to suit all ages and abilities with little or no roadwork - from a gentle one hour ride to longer rides for the more experienced rider. In high season, you may well have to book your ride a few days in advance.

If you have never ridden before, try an easier one-hour ride first, instruction is given whilst on the ride. The hour ride follows the river and then up through the woods and along the course of the old Lynton - Barnstaple narrow gauge railway line. The chances are you will discover muscles you never knew existed but the experience may tempt you to improve your riding with further lessons. Like any sport, the more competent you become, the more you enjoy it.

For the intermediate rider we can offer a scenic coastal ride taking in views of the Valley of Rocks, Lee Abbey and the spectacular Exmoor coastline, with its famous hog's back wooded cliffs. And for the more experienced rider we can offer various routes on the open moor involving more challenging, faster, riding. All our rides are escorted.

We can offer self-catering holidays in either our fully modernised 16th century cottages situated in a sheltered Exmoor valley beside a trout stream, or a bungalow with beautiful uninterrupted panoramic moorland views, which are situated on our working sheep farm.