More city people use horses as transport than country people.

[Davidsdaughter]

My biggest surprise moving to a city, was to find how many people use horses as a method of transport instead of cars. I would have expected it to be none, but in fact it is significantly more than in the countryside.

Am I in the only UK city where this is the case? Is this an increasing trend?

YANBU - horses are a valid and common city transport method
YABU- you live in the only place where this happens

Is this London, Planet Earth we're talking about here? Or another one ...?

This must be a very specific part of London?

I can believe it's more common overall in urban areas (although very small). Here we have a lot of travellers on the roads with horses.

Well I’m still fumming about it

I live in London and i have never seen this.

Did you see this horse before going in the pub or on the way out ?

Horses have invisible disabilities too you know

Where I live which is sort of London we often get camps of travellers who come down and run their horses on a local park early in the morning and I've seen them shuttling back and forth from their site to the park, but even they're not using them as a getting about thing.

I've lived and worked all over London for 30+ years and never seen a horse being used for personal transport

Are you a time traveller?

I'm in London and occasionally see a little horse and trap trotting around the streets but that's being used as a recreation not a means of transport.

Hearses are pulled by horses, (more normal for short urban distances and Caribbean communities) and of course I see mounted police and mounted soldiers at Horseguards Parade but apart from that I don't see any working horses, no.

Woke snowflakeism

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I used to see horses where I grew up but we were right on the outskirts of the city, virtually semi rural.

Horseist

Live in rural Scotland, surrounded by farms, livery stables, and properties with land for own horses and for first time ever saw some one using a horse and trap last week, not a usual occurance! Village chat is that it's a Londoner who's retired here, maybe it is a thing!

Are you talking about these horses on the south bank? because I'm not sure they really qualify as transport

When I was a child in 1940s London there was the milkman, the coalman, the rag-and-bone man, who all had horses. I would occasionally give the milkman's horse a carrot .I used to feel sorry for children sent out with a bucket and spade to collect the manure for the garden.

Are they ULEZ and CAZ exempt?

The way they fart they really shouldn’t be.

Does anyone remember the parking thread a while back where a lady had a horse tied up next to her window for a while. It got quite funny!

I reckon the op ventured into a time slip....

There's a few people here who keep them in their gardens and it has been known to keep them in the house.

I can imagine that the OPs original point is actually true because almost no-one will use a horse for transport rather than leisure, there's more people in cities than the countryside, people in the countryside tend to have to travel further to reach shops, work etc and it's probably not going to be practical to make journeys that are 5/10/20 miles by horse, hence more people using horses for transport in cities than the countryside.

are you sure it’s not just your neigh-bours?

I've lived in London for years and never seen this

I've only seen police horses in London and mainly on football match days (I lived near a stadium)

It would be awesome if this was the case- so much calmer than cities full of cars.

Which bit? This happens near me (it’s travellers)