Horsey types - help needed

[rhinochopig]

My wife and her sister want to take their mum away for a horsey weekend for her birthday.

With that in mind, and knowing there a lot of horse folks on here, I thought I'd ask for some recommendations.

They want the following:

• Horse trekking centre in either: Lakes, Northumberland, or Dales - not Moors as we live here and they want a change of scenery. It should also be a spot that allows galloping etc. and not just a follow the leader walk for an hour.

However, where it gets more complicated is that they also have the following criteria:

• Within reasonable distance of nice hotel / restaurant
• Within reasonable distance of a spa type place.

They basically want to do a days horse stuff and then be pampered for a day.

Thanks

Rich

[charliedaker]

Assume they need to hire the horses as well?

If so google brought this up...

http://www.kimmerston.com/index.htm

[E55 Max]

I would agree with Kimmerston, although the Luxury hotel nearby could be an issue.

[Pot Bellied Fool]

Horsey people at www.mellingdubfarm.co.uk will be able to point you at something local to them. They've got nice holiday cottages there.

[staceyb]

DeVere Slaley Hall for the pampering bit, and I'm sure there are hods of trekking/equestrian centres around.

http://www.devere.co.uk/our-locations/slaley-hall....

[rhinochopig]

Thanks for the responses chaps. Luckily we have the Times travel - never read it though, so I'll go and dig it out the recycling pile.

I'll pass on the recommendations.

Oh and yes, they would need to hire horses.

[TooLateForAName]

Any good?
http://www.yrc.co.uk/

I'm not horsey in the least but this place is just down the road from me. 6 or so miles North of Harrogate so plenty of expensive hotels available.