Valley View Ranch in Herefordshire is not interested in putting you on a horse for twenty minutes, handing you a cowboy hat and calling the photographs a Western experience.
If the American ranch trip has been sitting in your head for years, there’s a company in Shropshire whose job is to get you onto the horse and into the middle of it.
British Country fans can book working-ranch holidays, horse drives and cattle drives across the American West without piecing the whole trip together themselves. American Roundup is a UK specialist that helps match you to the right kind of ranch — from comfortable guest stays to proper days in the saddle moving livestock.
You don’t need to own a horse to try Western riding in Britain. And if you already have one, there’s a good chance you can bring that horse with you. The Western Equestrian Society has spent decades making the way in considerably easier than it looks.
