Why do you need a package to ride the bridleways ?
Some bridleways are tarmac tracks - or made of sharp flinty stones, which is worse. Some are overgrown, or have barbed wire gates. You can't tell that from looking at a map. We can - because we've ridden every mile of the bridleways we recommend - and a lot more that we don't.
Right and below: these are the sort of bridleway we are always on the look-out for. The picture above right is of Bobbie from Bridle Rides checking a route near Bledington in the North Cotswolds. The other photos were taken in Long Dale in the Manifold Dales (below) and a grassy field on the edge of Cranborne Chase (right). On the map, all these bridleways are marked in the same way, but you can only tell the good ones by riding them - which is what we do!
You also need safe crossings of roads, railways and rivers in order to work your way across the countryside.

Bridle Rides sorts all this out for you. We ride all the bridleways ourselves, select the best quality ones (with one or two necessary compromises to link with main road crossings), and link them up to generate 14-20 mile rides between farmhouse B&B's with facilities for horses. More on what Bridle Rides offers.

Its perfectly possible to ride the bridleways on your own, so you may not want a package - click the "I don't want a package" button below to find out more.

Now for some examples of the kind of bridleways we try to avoid ....
Above: a rare padlocked gate. In over 20 years we've only found two or three like this. It's very unlikely that you will see one on our routes.
Left: a badly rutted track - the kind of thing we avoid. This is part of the Ridgeway Path about 15 years ago, although this bit has since been re-surfaced.

The countryside changes all the time, and tracks which were fine when we last rode them can get badly rutted by farm traffic after a spell wet weather. You might come across sections of our routes that have deteriorated - so please tell us and we'll try to find a way round.
The photo above is of a mile-long flinty track in Dorset. We spent a day finding a way round this section. The new route is a two-mile diversion through the woods in the distance, but we think it is worthwhile.