“A wonderful cross-country site, interesting and beautifully maintained, with so many different types of fences – a far cry from a collection of boring roll-tops”
Lucinda Green, six-times Badminton winner
Lodge Farm Cross-Country Course offers more than 90 fences from 60cm to 1.10m including ditches, corners, arrowheads, skinnies, steps, lots of combinations plus two water complexes. The terrain is principally flat, but there is good use made of the natural features.
Set in 40 acres of well-maintained grassland it is ideal for schooling young horses, for a quick pre-event practice over a course of fences or for a training session with your instructor.
All fences have prepared take-offs and landings and the excellent viewing makes our course popular with instructors and parents.
Top riders who visit us on a regular basis include Francis Whittington, Will Furlong, Felicity Collins, Tom Crisp and Camilla Kruger.
We are open Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, plus some extra days during school holidays, from the beginning of March until the end of October. Easy parking and good access from the M25 and A21.
Action pictures courtesy of Louisa Day https://louisadayphotography.co.uk.
Louisa is available to photograph private and group sessions at Lodge Farm.
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The ultimate #TBT for another gloomy day…
Where it all began…
30 YEARS AGO
We’ve been gifted these wonderful old photos by #westkentsevenoaksponyclub. They show some of the jumps that were built for the 1996 #ponyclubarea11 Horse Trials qualifier, which we hosted here for several years. Some are recognisable, some have most definitely been consigned to the history books!
Back in the day, Mike Etherington-Smith’s book, ‘Cross-country Course Design and Construction’ was our bible and our team of ‘course-builders’ was spearheaded by a wonderful villager called Dave Briggs, whose great talent was hedge-laying, but he was also a dab hand at fashioning jumps from fallen trees and spare timber. The brief for the PC Area was to build big and beefy – there was only one height back then, which was the equivalent of a very decent BE novice! Does anyone remember the coffin (pictured while under construction)? You had to approach it down a steep slope off a ninety-degree turn. It wiped out half the field 😱
How many jumps do you recognise?
#LodgeFarmXC #fromthearchives📷
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Where it all began…
30 YEARS AGO
We’ve been gifted these wonderful old photos by #westkentsevenoaksponyclub. They show some of the jumps that were built for the 1996 #ponyclubarea11 Horse Trials qualifier, which we hosted here for several years. Some are recognisable, some have most definitely been consigned to the history books!
Back in the day, Mike Etherington-Smith’s book, ‘Cross-country Course Design and Construction’ was our bible and our team of ‘course-builders’ was spearheaded by a wonderful villager called Dave Briggs, whose great talent was hedge-laying, but he was also a dab hand at fashioning jumps from fallen trees and spare timber. The brief for the PC Area was to build big and beefy – there was only one height back then, which was the equivalent of a very decent BE novice! Does anyone remember the coffin (pictured while under construction)? You had to approach it down a steep slope off a ninety-degree turn. It wiped out half the field 😱
How many jumps do you recognise?
#LodgeFarmXC #fromthearchives📷
As we near the end of 2025 we would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has supported us this season. It has been our busiest year yet with a packed calendar of events, clinics and schooling. We’ve welcomed lots of new faces this year, with riders coming from far and wide, and it’s been fantastic to watch everyone’s progress.
We have lots of exciting things going on in 2026 so please do christen your new diaries with our four key dates (others may be added)!
We can’t wait to welcome you back next year.
In the meanwhile, we wish you all a very merry Christmas,
Ellie, Nicky & Phil 🎄
📸 @pdg_event_photography
@thunderhooves.digital
@cookney_creations
#LodgeFarmXC #xctraining #kentequestrian #eventinglife #savethedates
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We have lots of exciting things going on in 2026 so please do christen your new diaries with our four key dates (others may be added)!
We can’t wait to welcome you back next year.
In the meanwhile, we wish you all a very merry Christmas,
Ellie, Nicky & Phil 🎄
📸 @pdg_event_photography
@thunderhooves.digital
@cookney_creations
#LodgeFarmXC #xctraining #kentequestrian #eventinglife #savethedates
December at its very best this morning ❄️ ☀️🫶
#LodgeFarmXC #XCTraining #EventingUK #equestrianlife #equestriancommunity
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#LodgeFarmXC #XCTraining #EventingUK #equestrianlife #equestriancommunity