Lucknam Park Hotel review: a stately stay in the country

Matthew Partridge tries horse riding at the luxury Lucknam Park Hotel in Wiltshire.

Exterior view of Lucknam Park Hotel
(Image credit: Lucknam Park Hotel)

“Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me?” The quote from Full Metal Jacket rang through my head as I climbed up the steps of the mounting block and eased myself onto the back of the 17 Hands of May, the Clydesdale horse that had been selected to carry me around the 500-acre estate of Lucknam Park Hotel

Thankfully, while the pouring rain, helmet and green riding sheet I was wearing wouldn’t have been out of place in Stanley Kubrick’s film, the hour-long riding lesson wasn’t to be my own personal Vietnam – or Waterloo.

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Dr Matthew Partridge
Shares editor, MoneyWeek

Matthew graduated from the University of Durham in 2004; he then gained an MSc, followed by a PhD at the London School of Economics.

He has previously written for a wide range of publications, including the Guardian and the Economist, and also helped to run a newsletter on terrorism. He has spent time at Lehman Brothers, Citigroup and the consultancy Lombard Street Research.

Matthew is the author of Superinvestors: Lessons from the greatest investors in history, published by Harriman House, which has been translated into several languages. His second book, Investing Explained: The Accessible Guide to Building an Investment Portfolio, is published by Kogan Page.

As senior writer, he writes the shares and politics & economics pages, as well as weekly Blowing It and Great Frauds in History columns He also writes a fortnightly reviews page and trading tips, as well as regular cover stories and multi-page investment focus features.

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