Our 20 acre cross country schooling field has aprox 150 fences from 1ft to 4ft and 90% of our fences have all weather landings and take offs. Downlands has indoor and outdoor schools which are both lit for those dark nights and even dark days and have good well maintained surfaces. Our outdoor school has a full set of Jump for Joy show jumps suitable for competitions or just for fun.

Downland's is one of Wiltshire's finest equestrian yards with great facilities to hire and competition venue for all disciplines.

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Downlands Equestrian was founded in 1997 on a one thousand acre farm crying out for a 2nd enterprise in an age where Arable Farming alone is non-sustainable. Victor Sidford, farmer and owner with the help of Lucinda Stokes, a local Small Business Consultant who'd ridden all her life, was immediately able to see the potential of this wonderful location, nestled on the edge of some of Wiltshire's finest Downland.

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We have a large 39 m x 28 m indoor school with a waxed equimix surface and with large mirrors to help with training. 60m x 35m of Fibresand / Star-Trak rubber with a full set of show jumps and floodlights for those dark evenings. Downlands are proud of our extensive Cross-Country schooling field with a large water complex.

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Super Class

Oct 24, 2021

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Doesn’t help having 50 horseboxes there when I’m trying to get my tractors and combines up there in august

Bell Sutton

Aug 17, 2021

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A fantastic venue for xc schooling from babies to more advanced horses/ponies. Great outdoor school with showjumps and excellent instructor Paula on site to have sessions with at any level. Highly recommend.

Mike Barrow

Jun 15, 2021

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Great value and excellent for all riders. Excellent place for a photo opportunity too.

Beau Laura

Apr 25, 2021

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Great facilities! Great selection of XC jumps. First time XC for my daughter and she loved it 🥰

Charles Lane

Apr 25, 2021

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Wonderful to be back at Downlands to school my very inexperienced 4 year old eventer. Fantastic range of tiny to bigger cross country jumps, including water with wide encouraging beach, small shallow ditches and huge range of steps.

Karen Williams

Jun 28, 2020

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Great jumps, lots choice and heights, the layout on hill lends itself to some nice gallops in between and facilities are great 👍

Trisha Jordan

Jan 05, 2020

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Great facility cross country course to suit a wide range of levels from mini upwards. Nice school.

J. J.

Nov 27, 2018

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Just returned from a riding camp I've held our riding camp at Downlands for the second year, and it's a great base. Indoor school, lovely large outside jump arena, great XC schooling field with jumps ranging from 30cm to over 1m and a water complex. Can't wait until next year's camp!

Andrew Dannatt

Oct 21, 2018

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What a fabulous place to bring your horse or pony for some X Country experience. The lovely setting immediately puts your horse at ease....

Max Sullivan

Sep 06, 2018

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Seems to be very secure and well run. Very tidy stables. Plenty of parking and safety for horse and riders is paramount.