After they banned horses from the village green and surrounding common land, I set about trying to find out why, for it seemed such a strange thing to do.
Forbidding dark green signs saying ‘No Horse Riding By Order Of The Parish Council’ marked every track running through 30 acres of public land, while the bridleways in the nearby woods were almost permanently blocked with fallen trees.
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