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Equine Retirement at Lowertown Farm

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Yard Address:
Lowertown Farm
Poundsgate
Devon
TQ13 7PQ

Contact: Mrs Hannah Fursdon

Telephone: 01364 631034

Mobile: 07935391062

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Yard Details

One of Devon’s original specialist retirement livery yards, Lowertown Farm was established in 2009 and is nestled in the beautiful Dart Valley, tucked away from main roads. We offer the ideal setting to retire your horse.

 

At Lowertown Farm, we provide inclusive packages tailored to suit each horse’s individual needs during their retirement. We believe every horse deserves a loving and caring home, regardless of age or the reason for retirement. Horses live in a herd environment with companions carefully matched to their personalities and seasonal grazing requirements.

We pride ourselves on offering individual, specialist care while allowing horses the freedom to simply be horses. Your horse will enjoy a secure, tranquil, and relaxed setting. Our well-maintained fields feature natural shelter, gentle slopes, thick hedgerows for browsing, and troughs filled with fresh spring water. Thanks to our location on Dartmoor, we experience minimal flies in the summer and enjoy gentle breezes on warm days—keeping the horses comfortable and content.

 

Turnout & Lifestyle
We offer 24/7 turnout, which is particularly beneficial for older horses prone to stiffness, swelling, respiratory issues, or arthritis. Horses live out during the summer, and those needing additional care during the winter are brought into spacious, well-ventilated stables. Even in winter, stabled horses enjoy an average of nine hours of turnout each day to keep them mobile and happy.

 

Feeding & Land Management
We follow a comprehensive field management programme—rolling, fertilising, weed control, hedge trimming, and pasture restoration after winter. Our full worming programme, including worm egg counts, is supported by Westgate Laboratories. We produce all our own haylage on-site, ensuring it’s harvested under ideal conditions and of the highest quality. We also provide basic hard feed when required, and are happy to administer owner-supplied supplements, medications, or special diets.

 

Veterinary & Routine Care
We work closely with trusted local vets, farriers, physiotherapists, and an experienced equine dentist (who once kept his own horse with us). All are available at short notice. You’re also welcome to continue using your preferred professionals. We have clear emergency protocols in place and keep owners fully informed if veterinary care is needed.

 

Owner Involvement
There are no restrictions on visiting your horse. We regularly share updates via phone, email, and our Facebook page—with plenty of photos—so you can stay connected, even if you’re far away. Many of our clients live abroad, and we’re happy to recommend reliable nationwide horse transport companies to help bring your horse to us.

 

Our Background
Hannah studied equestrianism at Duchy College in Cornwall and has over 30 years’ experience with a wide variety of horses, including ex-racehorses, working hunters, polo ponies, and feral Dartmoor ponies. Her love for horses began at age two, after winning a raffle for a pony ride. Hannah and Luke live on-site and have built strong, trusted relationships with all our service providers. As we specialise exclusively in retirement livery, your horse will not experience the stress of busy comings and goings common at traditional livery yards.

 

What’s Included in Our Retirement Packages:

  • ✅ Daily checks and close monitoring for signs of discomfort, injury or illness
  • ✅ Farm-made haylage throughout the winter
  • ✅ 24/7 turnout in well-drained, sheltered fields with natural features and spring water
  • ✅ Companionship based on each horse’s temperament and grazing needs
  • ✅ Basic hard feed when required
  • ✅ Administration of owner-supplied supplements and medications
  • ✅ Pampering, grooming and daily hands-on attention
  • ✅ Full worming programme including egg counts
  • ✅ Regular trimming by our excellent local farrier
  • ✅ Field maintenance: rolling, fertilising, weed control, hedge and hedgerow management
  • ✅ Regular Facebook photo updates for owners
  • ✅ Rug changes tailored to the weather and your horse’s needs
  • ✅ Clear emergency protocols and full vet support

Optional Extras (at additional cost):

  • 🐎 Special hard feed and supplements
  • 🦷 Equine dentist visits
  • 🏥 Veterinary visits (with your vet or ours)
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We offer stabled retirement livery during the winter months (November–March), when space allows.

 

Our livery service is tailored to the individual, and because we value quality care over quantity, we keep our yard intentionally small. This allows us to offer the extra TLC every horse deserves.

If you have specific needs or requests, just let us know—we’re always happy to accommodate where we can.

 

”Hannah gives all the horses kind and attentive care in her peacefully situated yard. Communication and service are thoughtful and professional. Highly recommended”

 

Please do not hesitate to get in contact to discuss any of our services! 

 

Packages
  • Convalescence Livery
  • Full Livery
  • Grass Livery
  • Luxury Livery
  • Natural Livery
  • Non-Ridden Livery
  • Rehabilitation Livery
  • Retirement Livery
  • Tailored Livery
Yard Facilities
  • All Weather Turnout Area
  • Auto Waterers- Fields
  • Auto Waterers- Stables
  • Barefoot Friendly
  • Car Parking
  • CCTV Security
  • Child Friendly
  • Dog Friendly
  • Exterior Lighting
  • Farm Setting
  • Feeding Stations
  • Fencing- Hedging
  • Fencing- Mixed Types
  • Field Shelters
  • Grazing- 24/7 Summer Availability
  • Grazing- Available Year Round
  • Grazing- Mixed Herds
  • Hardstanding Areas
  • Hay/ Bedding Storage
  • Hose Boom
  • Laundry or Rug Wash Facilities
  • Natural Shelter
  • No Smoking Policy
  • Non-Ridden Friendly
  • Rubber Matting
  • Rug Room
  • Security Lighting
  • Stabling- External
  • Tack Room – Alarmed
  • Toilets
  • Wash Down Area
  • WiFi Available
Rider Facilities
  • Not Applicable- No Riding Facilities
  • Round Pen
Yard Services
  • 24 Hour Supervision
  • BHS Qualified Staff On Site
  • Bio-Security Policy
  • Clipping & Grooming Services (Provided by Yard)
  • Dentist- Regular Visits
  • Equine Body Worker- Regular Visits
  • Farrier- Regular Visits
  • Feed & Bedding Delivered to Yard
  • Fully Insured
  • Hay Supplier On-Site
  • Isolation Block/ Area
  • New Arrivals Policy/ Procedure
  • Owner/ Manager Lives on Site
  • Vaccination Policy
  • Vet- Regular Visits
  • Worming Programme
  • Yard Manager

Yard Reviews

Rated 5/5 based on 11 reviews

Review by Gill Brierley – Mar, 2025
Our very pampered Pony George has been in our lives for our 14 years. We bought him as bombproof for our daughter and he has been beyond wonderful. He has never put a hoof wrong. He has performed at Haydock, Pony Club camps and even made the Gymkhana team. He has given all of our family incredible pleasure. So choosing a retirement livery yard that met his needs and our expectations, was paramount prior to the relocation to Devon. We researched and visited yards. It is hard to pass the baton on to someone else to care for our boy when we love and pamper him so much. We visited Lowertown as a family and we all felt the location and atmosphere was super for our boy. Hannah reassured us and we were put on the waiting list for a stabled package. Our boy has been on Lowertown for almost 2 years and is very very content. We visit him weekly and it’s ideal that you can just turn up. No need to book. Hannah’s care and knowledge is of a very very high standard. We as a family have been very impressed.

Review by Sue – Feb, 2025
Our gorgeous dearly loved boy needed to retire and after making that hard decision we wanted to find somewhere he d be at peace as he never settled in busy places. When we first visited we knew this was the best place for him who wouldnt want to live out retirement in a beautiful peaceful grass laiden haven!! He is a very lucky boy having both Hannah and Luke taking care of him, we visit often and are always made to feel welcome – i hope my retirement is as wonderful as his!

Review by MH – May, 2023
My boy has been with Hannah and Luke for around 5 years now. Although I can’t get to see him as often as I’d like to, I never have to worry because I know he’s in such good hands.He really is living the best life and the kind of life that all horses deserve. He’s in a settled herd, living out and in beautiful, peaceful surroundings.My horse means the world to me and so giving him a long and happy retirement was of paramount importance.I’m always so grateful for the exemplary care he gets at Lowertown Farm.

Review by Karen Bates – Mar, 2022
My horse retired from a competition career at 16, and due to our house move was no longer able to be kept at home. He's a quirky character and I knew that I had to be very careful about his retirement livery, especially given that I wanted him to be able to be there for the rest of his life, not moving about and being unsettled all the time. When I visited Lowertown Farm and met Hannah and Luke I immediately felt that this was the place. The small number of liveries was in direct contrast to many other options, and Hannah's experience shone through as I talked to her. I felt that she was genuinely interested in Rufus's character and how she would be able to settle him and provide him with a stress free life. This is exactly what's happened. Rufus has been at Lowertown nearly 4 years now and is the calmest I've ever seen him, though he does sometimes still have "that glint" in his eye when I visit him. The "just give me an excuse and I'll show you I've still got it" glint! To be honest I love that he's so obviously happy and enjoying his life, and whilst I'd have loved to have been able to have kept him at home, this is a much better option for him. He's got a close friend in Faran, and all the care he needs from Hannah and Luke, and I know 100% that he'll be looked after and cared for with all consideration to him and his personality. Hannah is on top of any issue that arises and vet, farrier, dentist are all long standing contacts providing an excellent service whenever needed. I'd recommend Lowertown Farm to anyone looking to give their horse or pony the very best final years they can find.

Review by Caroline Ames – Mar, 2022
My mare has been with Hannah and Luke for three years now – and I highly recommend the service they provide. April is very well looked after and the care and attention she receives is what I myself would give. Hannah is someone who knows horses and clearly has a real love for them. More than this, when you visit Lowertown Farm you can see what a peaceful place it is, and why it is the perfect retirement community for a much-loved horse. Five stars and well deserved!

Review by Kirstin Brown – Jan, 2021
When the time came to retire my horse Faran, I considered all options. I knew that I wanted him to be able to just ‘be a horse’ having spent the last decade at least of his life being a busy riding club all rounder – my once in a lifetime horse. At the time of retirement Faran was 16 years old – so we knew we might have quite a long period of time to consider for him, and I didn’t want to have to move him around – it needed to be a ‘forever home’.We came across Hannah and Luke’s retirement livery service and upon visiting there was nowhere else I could imagine Faran spending his retirement. Nothing was too much trouble for Hannah – all his little quirks and requirements are catered for and the bonus of overnight stabling in the winter so he still has the creature comforts he has always been used to. Faran has now been at Lowertown for just over two years and he is relaxed, comfortable, happy and content – and has a lovely herd of friends. He is cared for superbly and Hannah has really got to know him well – she understands his individual personality and always ensures herd dynamics are reflective of the horses individual characters so that all horses are relaxed. It is such a quiet, remote location and is so peaceful – no coming and going – which was so important to me for keeping Faran as chilled out as possible.I really enjoy visiting whenever I can and rest assured in the knowledge that he is superbly cared for. Very professional and highly recommended.

Review by Angela Culverhouse – Sep, 2020
My mare, Puzzle, has been with Hannah and Luke since March this year. I managed to visit her once before lockdown was enforced, but have been delighted to see how happy, healthy and relaxed she looks from the photographs Hannah regularly puts up on Facebook. I know I don't have to worry about Puzzle, as Hannah and Luke obviously look after the horses in their care as if they were their own. I feel very lucky that Lowertown Farm had a vacancy when I needed it. I'm sure, as their reputation grows, it will become harder to find a space there.

Review by Val Dean – Sep, 2020
In November 2019 in needed livery for my home bred , broken and schooled dear mare Solly .I found Lowertown Farm to look after her .I would highly recommend Hanna and Luke as I found Solly was looked after and very happy – she even found herself I boyfriend!

Review by Cathy Smith – May, 2020
My lovely boy Taz has been with Hannah since I retired him 3 years, he has been so relaxed and every need catered for. His feet are now barefoot and never looked better, when he has needed the vet Hannah has been right on top of it and looked after him. I am happy to say that his mobility is still good, he is eating very well – on loads of grass, and he is settled in his herd. The yard is professional and friendly. Thank you for your excellent service.

Review by Karen Bates – Nov, 2018
When the time came to retire my horse I looked at many yards. Lowertown Farm appealed to me immediately due to it’s small size (10 horses/ponies) and the approach of both Hannah and Luke to the care they provide. Care is positive and kind, and individualised, and Hannah takes a lot of time to get to know your horse – his likes and dislikes, position in a herd, personality and any issues they may have. The yard is extremely peaceful, visiting is a pleasure and my horse settled in almost immediately. He always has a big smile on his face when I see him and, having had a previous career in dressage he’s loving spending time just being a horse. Grazing and group dynamics are always appropriate, and changed as and when necessary, and communication is timely and professional. I would recommend to anyone.

Review by Dawn Cornish – Nov, 2018
Hannah gives all the horses kind and attentive care in her peacefully situated yard. Communication and service are thoughtful and professional. Highly recommended.

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