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The Fell Pony Society

The Fell Pony Society's aim is to foster and keep pure the old breed of pony which has roamed the northern fells for years and to circulate knowledge and general information about the pony breed.

The Society deals with the Registration of Ponies, applications for Membership and export matters. It produces two Magazines per year, lists of ponies for sale and a regular calendar of events.

The Fell Pony Society (2023). https://www.fellponysociety.org.uk

The Fell Pony Museum

In these pages we celebrate the ponies of the Lake District and Northern England, who have worked and travelled through history and who have been known since 1853 as "Fell ponies".

The Fell Pony Museum is organised by timeline. The menu on the left links to main topics. Additional menus across the top of each section enable you to discover more on each subject, including sound and video.

The Fell Pony Museum (2023). https://www.fellponymuseum.org.uk/fells/felcnts.htm

The Fell Pony Society of North America

The Fell Pony Society of North America, Inc. (FPSNA), is the oldest registered Fell Pony organization in North America. FPSNA was established in 2001 with the support of the majority of Fell owners and breeders in North America.

Our Mission is to promote and preserve the Fell Pony breed in North America in ways that are consistent with the rules and regulations of the Fell Pony Society (FPS) in the UK.

The Fell Pony Society of North America (2023). https://www.fpsna.org

The Fell Pony Heritage Trust

Fell Ponies are part of the our heritage in Cumbria because of the relation between humanity and its environment. The semi-wild herds of Fell ponies have helped create that landscape. Yet you can go into the streets in the local towns and ask people if they know about them and 9 out of 10 people don't. We should be raising more awareness of these hill-bred ponies, their small numbers on the Cumbrian fells need to be treasured, not destroyed.

Did you know that…

​​Fell Ponies are native to the Cumbrian fells and have developed characteristics unique to that environment.

Semi wild herds of Fell ponies helped create the landscape of the Lake District and conserve the flora and fauna through their grazing?

Fell ponies were used as working animals on hill farms and were crucial to their success?

The Fell Pony is now an endangered species?

The traditional skills in using ponies in hill farm work are being lost?

The current farming owners of Fell ponies on the fells are challenged on a daily basis to keep them there.

Fell Pony Heritage Trust (2023). https://www.fpht.co.uk/the-fell-pony

Fell Pony Films by Tom Lloyd

Tom Lloyd is the owner of the Hades Hill Fell pony stud. My family has been breeding and working Fell ponies since 1957. With the loss of many semi-feral herds over the years, there are now fewer than 200 breeding Fell pony mares living out all year round in their natural habitat of the Cumbrian fells.

These ancient native ponies have roamed the northern fells (hills) of England since before Roman times and survived the culls of Henry VIII and the harsh winter of 1947. Bred originally as a pack pony, they say "You can't put a Fell to the wrong job" but they are at risk of passing into the history books forever due to an ageing population of breeders and external pressures on their environment. It is now more than ever vital that we preserve a gene pool of Fell ponies with the hardiness and characteristics that have made them what they are.

Fell Pony Adventures (2023). https://fellpony.co.uk/about-the-herd

Fell Pony Podcast

A series of conversations with friends and guests including riders, drivers, breeders, judges, adventurers and beyond.

This podcast grew out of the first Lockdown, first by creating videos and in 2021 the first series of the Fell Pony Podcast.

Winner of the Best International Podcast award at the Equus Film Festival 2021

Fell Pony Podcast (2023). https://fellpony.co.uk/podcast