WINNER OF THE ELWYN HARTLEYEDWARDS AWARD FOR EQUINE WRITING 2023. Tiffany FrancisBaker explores how the relationship between humans and horses has shaped the British landscape and how this connection has become part of our nations ecosystems. Many of us enjoy walking or riding on bridleways. These ancient networks crisscross the British countryside but we rarely pause to ponder how they came to be. Tiffany FrancisBaker tells the intriguing history of Britains bridleways revealing how our relationship with horses is deeply woven into the fabric of British culture from street and pub names to trading routes and coaching inns. She meets the closest living descendants of wild horses and investigates our evolving relationship with horses exploring equestrian sports horse fairs horseback travellers and adventurers and how humans and horses have worked together for millennia. Partdomesticated and partfiercely independent horses have long captured our imaginations and in The Bridleway FrancisBaker reveals how deeply rooted they have been in our culture for thousands of years and how they can help us understand the natural world and our place within it.