Action & Adventure

Speed or snow, high up or underwater, whatever you’re looking for, there’s something for you in Buckinghamshire.

Enjoy your favourite sports or try something for the first time in Buckinghamshire. There are beautiful golf courses, invigorating mountain biking trails and for horse lovers, a range of stables offer a variety of riding styles for children and adults to learn. Addington Manor Equestrian Centre is one of the country's best venues, catering for all levels of competitors and a Training Venue for the Olympics & Paralympics in London 2012. For a different kind of equestrian experience, a visit to the picturesque parkland of Towcester Racecourse, just a short canter over the border in Northamptonshire, will get your pulse racing.

Try something daring in the adrenalin forest adventures of Go Ape!, whilst the Xscape Entertainment Complex in Milton Keynes offers high energy fun including indoor skiing and snowboarding, rock climbing and indoor sky diving. Motor sports fans can enjoy watching one of the many national and international events or get behind the wheel themselves at Silverstone circuit in the north of the county.

Shooting enthusiasts will be in their element at the award winning E. J. Shooting Ground set in the stunning West Wycombe Estate and Guy Bond, the former Great Britain team manager from 1993 to 2005 and current manager of the England Clay Pigeon Shooting Team, runs a shooting school near Aylesbury.

Sometimes being a spectator is better than taking part, so don’t miss the chance to attend a top quality football or rugby match at Adams Park in High Wycombe. Well renowned as one of the most stunning sports grounds in Britain and regularly attracting thousands of supporters to the area, this stadium is home to the League Two Wycombe Wanderers Football Club, and London Wasps Rugby Football Club, who in recent seasons have enjoyed great success in winning European and Premiership titles.

If all this isn’t enough, why not try paintballing in High Wycombe or scuba diving in the most landlocked dive centre in the UK, at Scubaducks. In addition, there are state-of-the-art facilities at Aylesbury’s Aqua Vale, Chesham’s Moor Gym and Swim Centre, Buckingham’s Swan Pool and Leisure Centre or why not visit the birth of the Paralympics at Stoke Mandeville Stadium. The Longridge Activity Centre, near Marlow provides a range of exciting water and land-based activities aimed at people of all ages and abilities.