If you can’t bear to live too far away from urban life, then why not look at some of these horsey properties for sale, handily placed just a stone’s throw from their local town centres.
1. Little Shipton, Gloucestershire
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For you: two miles from the town centre of Cheltenham, this Victorian family house has six bedrooms with an orchard and a workshop.
For the horses: a 20x40m arena with retractable lighting, a stable block with three loose boxes, a feed store and a tack room. Set in four acres.
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2. The Limes, Rutland
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For you: a Grade II-listed Regency house two miles from Stamford, with six bedrooms plus a one-bedroom cottage, ideal for a groom. Outside are attractive gardens and river frontage with fishing rights.
For the horses: three stables with a hay store and tack room and three acres of paddocks.
For you: just under two miles from Market Bosworth, this seven-bedroom country house has an indoor swimming pool, entertainment complex, orangery and tennis court, with secondary accommodation.
For the horses: seven good-sized loose boxes and a tack room, set around an enclosed courtyard. Set in 14 acres.
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A graduate from Durham University, Madeleine joined H&H in 2011 and became Features Editor — producing content across the magazine and website, including the popular inside back cover article ‘The horse that made me’ and the weekly ‘The best of my fun…’ interview. She has written on topics as diverse as hay making and headcams, to hot totty in the horse world and circus horses. Madeleine now works as a freelance feature writer for Country Life, The Telegraph, Horse & Hound, cntraveller.com, The Spectator and The Field, as well as writing obituaries for The Times.
