🌳 Outdoor
What’s there
- Café on site
- Parking
On-site car park and a hard-standing lorry and trailer park (100m x 100m), per the venue's own site. Parking charges not stated.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Mendip Plains is a working equestrian centre on a farm estate on the Mendip Hills, run by a local farming family. It has a 90 by 50 metre all-weather outdoor arena, a cross-country course with fences from 60cm to 100cm, show jumps and dressage markers. Most of the year it is busy with schooling sessions, clinics, and competitions in dressage, showjumping, eventing and showing, and it hosts pony club and riding club activity. Families with horse-mad children are the most natural visitors, and the site lists reduced rates for under-14s on cross-country schooling. A small takeaway café, The Jockeys Rest, serves food and drinks on busy competition days. The centre is aimed at riders rather than casual visitors, so younger children are best placed to watch from the side or join in with a pony club or clinic session.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Plasters
- Spare carrier bagFor the wet things. There are always wet things.
- Sun cream
- Sun hat
- Lunch boxes
- Sunglasses
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