Just forty-five minutes from central London, Coworth Park offers a luxurious countryside escape in the heart of Berkshire — and one of England’s most complete equestrian hotel experiences. Set within 240 acres of parkland bordering Windsor Great Park, this elegant Georgian mansion house estate combines a Michelin-starred restaurant, an award-winning spa, England’s only hotel-based polo grounds, and a genuinely serious equestrian centre with stabling for up to forty horses.
Coworth Park is, in its way, two destinations in one: a country house hotel of real refinement, and a working equestrian centre with an all-weather canter track, escorted hacking across the estate, and lessons in riding, dressage, jumping, and polo delivered by a British Horse Society-qualified team. It is the sort of place where a guest can start the morning cantering across a wildflower meadow and end the day with a Michelin-starred dinner in a Georgian drawing room.
The Experience
The stable yard at Coworth Park has the quiet purposefulness of a serious operation rather than a hotel amenity tacked on for the brochure — purpose-built American barn stabling, rubber-matted boxes, automatic drinkers, and horses that are visibly, properly cared for. You are matched to a mount that suits your ability, and the pace of the ride is set to you: a gentle walk with opportunities to trot for first timers, building to a confident trot and canter across the estate for more experienced riders.
The hour-long escorted hack is the signature experience — out across 240 acres of rolling Berkshire parkland, through the wildflower meadow, past the sunken garden and the Lime Grove, with the Georgian Mansion House rising in the distance. For a special occasion, the ride can be extended with a stop at The Barn for a glass of Laurent-Perrier and a photograph astride your horse before the return.
Beyond hacking, Coworth Park’s polo programme is genuinely unusual for a hotel: the estate’s two high-goal grounds are managed by Guards Polo Club, the storied Windsor institution founded by Prince Philip in 1955, and the Guards Polo Academy offers lessons for complete beginners right through to experienced players. Younger guests have their own equally serious programme — grooming, tacking up, and a supervised pony ride, finishing with a Coworth Park grooming kit to take home. And for guests travelling with their own horse, the Ultimate Horse Check-In treats the animal to its own five-star stay: assigned stabling, a welcome polo ball, a post-ride aromatherapy wash, and a hoof-oil finish.
The Signature Champagne Celebration Ride
Perfect for riders of all abilities, this bespoke one-hour experience combines countryside charm with a touch of indulgence. Guests enjoy a tailored ride through the estate, followed by a glass of bubbly at The Barn Restaurant and a photo with their horse.
About Coworth Park
Coworth Park’s history as an estate stretches back to 1776, when the original house was built for William Shepheard. Canadian businessman Galen Weston acquired the property in the mid-1980s, and Dorchester Collection purchased it in 2001, reopening it as a hotel in 2010 following an extensive restoration that preserved the character of the Georgian mansion while building the equestrian and polo facilities that now define the estate.
The riding programme is overseen by a British Horse Society-qualified team and set within genuinely excellent facilities: purpose-built stabling for up to forty horses, an all-weather gallop track, and direct access to bridleways across the 240-acre estate. The polo grounds, managed by Guards Polo Club, host a full fixture list from late April to mid-September, including the high-goal Cartier Queen’s Cup — and Coworth Park remains the only hotel in the UK with its own polo fields.
Set against the wider historic backdrop of nearby Windsor Great Park — royal riding country for the better part of a thousand years — Coworth Park offers something genuinely rare: a five-star country house experience built, from the ground up, around serious horsemanship. Guests need not be experienced riders, or players of polo, to appreciate what has been assembled here. But those who are will recognise, immediately, that this is not decoration. It is the real thing.
At Coworth Park, guests can choose from beautifully designed rooms and suites, each offering a peaceful retreat after a day in the countryside. The hotel blends timeless luxury with a relaxed country-house atmosphere, with many rooms offering views across the estate and surrounding Berkshire landscape.
Our Stewardship
Coworth Park was the first hotel of its kind in the UK to install a biomass boiler, fuelled by willow grown on the estate, giving the property a carbon-neutral heat source. Its spa is partially submerged in the ground, built with timber and lime-hemp walls, and topped with a green roof that grows herbs used elsewhere on the property. This sits within Dorchester Collection’s group-wide ESG framework, Legacy of Care, which includes a commitment to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, refillable bathroom bottles that prevent more than 723,000 single-use plastic bottles annually, and a partnership with The Humane League on animal welfare. The estate also borders Windsor Great Park, one of the oldest continuously protected royal landholdings in England.
Photo credits: Coworth Park & Equestrian Destination
