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Horse Riding & Carriage Driving membership

Enjoy horse riding at Windsor Great Park, Swinley Park and Oxshott Woods to experience a landscape that provides a collection of wide paved roads and/or twisting woodland trails. For carriage drivers there is also a membership for you to discover more of this historic landscape.

Where to ride in Windsor Great Park and Swinley Park

 

Here are some of our horse riders’ favourite locations within Windsor Great Park and Swinley Park. To view the horse tracks you can ride, please view the routes map here.

Offering enchanting woodland trails for horse riders through grand oak trees, some of which are over 800 years old. From here, you can ride along the horse track to the peak of Snow Hill and enjoy stunning views across historic Windsor and Eton. Visit The Long Walk and Deer Park for more information about this area.

Trot down the oak-lined avenue of Queen Anne’s Ride, named after the 18th Century Queen’s fondness for a horse drawn carriage ride along this path. Then ride alongside the Jubilee Statue, the only sculpture to have been commissioned of The Queen on horseback, and admire the view from on high towards Windsor Castle below. Visit Queen Anne’s Ride and Stag Meadow for more information about this area.

For further woodland trails, Swinley Park is home to acres of landscaped woodland, offering open grassland and natural tracks for riders and their horses to explore. This area is 20 minutes from Windsor Great park by car, close to Ascot town centre.

 Windsor Great Park membership pricing

 Here is the pricing for horse riding and carriage driving membership new or renewed up to 31 March 2021.

 

Membership type  Yearly membership
Individual horse riding membership £270
Carriage driving membership   £300

 

Before you buy your membership please familiarise yourself with our membership terms and conditions: 

Membership terms and conditions

 

Horsebox parking is located at the following car parks:

  • Rangers Gate (Sat Nav code: SL4 2LD)
  • Swinley Forest ( Sat Nav code: SL5 8BB)

Membership cards will be issued to allow Members access to these car parks.

Please see the horse riding map for further information.

 

New horse riding schools

If you run a horse riding school and would like to discuss membership with us please email us at [email protected] 

 

Renewals for existing horse riding schools

The membership team will be in contact with you separately

 

Where to ride in Oxshott

 

Here is a map of the horse tracks in Oxshott available to Oxshott horse riding members.

Oxshott horse riding membership pricing

Membership type Yearly membership
Individual horse riding permit £250

 

If you would like to purchase a riding permit for Oxshott, please would you email [email protected]. Before you buy your permit please familiarise yourself with our membership terms & conditions:

Membership terms and conditions

How to buy

 

To purchase or renew your horse riding or carriage driving permit, you will need to visit The Savill Building in person. 

Address:

Wick Lane
Englefield Green
Surrey
TW20 0UJ

Opening times can be found here. Please collect a car parking ticket on the way in and a member of the team will validate it for you so that you do not have to pay to exit.

 

The information that you will need to give us:

  • Confirm that you have a third party liability policy (minimum sum insured £5,000,000 – five million GBP Pounds). Please note that it is your responsibility to ensure that your insurance is valid and maintained throughout the life of your membership)

  • Provide us with your insurance company name and policy number

  • Provide us with the name and contact telephone number of your next of kin

  • All membership cards must have a photo of the rider that is insured. This photo will be taken at the time of application

 

Our staff will not be able to issue a new or renew a permit without the required information.

If you have any further questions please ask a member of the team or email us at: [email protected]. 

Before you visit

 

  • Horse riders and carriage drivers must be in possession of and displaying a valid permit before entering Windsor Great Park, Swinley Park or Oxshott
  • Check our visitor updates for information on track and road closures or riding and driving restrictions before visiting
  • Regular updates are also posted on our Members only Facebook page. Search: @WindsorGreatPark