A few years ago I mentioned the new neighbour having livestock which turned out to be hawkes, we moved our eating place further down the garden as one young hawk was a real squawker. Arrived today and there are two horses as well. Now I know its rural country but they are crapping right next to our fence and have the run of the paddock along side our garden with their stables 5m from our house. Note a fare distance from his. As they come right up to our fence are there any rules for giving us some distance? Yes the smell of their crap is overpowering
You said it! No, you can’t stop a neighbour having horses graze on their own land.
However unless it’s an enormous field they will probably move the horses after a few weeks as will have grazed everything.
You could also ask owner if you could collect the manure, and make a pile to rot down for your garden. Prized stuff horse manure.
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Great idea - and makes the point about proximity, too 
An old friend always referred to the 24 hour syndrome.
Take a chill pill and look at it in a different light tomorrow.
Looking at your situation in reverse, we have maison secondaire Parisians as nieghbours. They never cut their field and all the seeds seem to come our way. We know when they are due to arrive as their horse which is kept at livery locally is delivered to the field.
The Parisian dutifully collects the horse poo and puts in a nice neat dung heap by our fence! It soon rots down.
As for stable 5m from boundary I think the rule is no closer than 3m.
We take the view that our Parisian nieghbours spend no more rhan 8/10 weeks here maximum and the rest of the time they are out of sight, out of mind. Probably your nieghbours piont of view.
Live and let live and enjoy your stay.
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Let me have your address and I will ensure you get regular deliveries 
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Not called neigh bours for nothing 
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I keep thinking I should charge for mine, I’ve never seen so many people look so enthusiastically at a muck heap as my neighbours do 
It’s like Maurice the cockerel all over again…!
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Yeah, bloody London’ers! 
Started to complain when they bought holiday homes in the Home Counties about how noisy the villages & hamlets are from church bells, cows, combine harvesters working all hours & the dawn chorus.
That’s globalisation for you. Now they’re moaning in rural France. 
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This Londoner backs on to allotments that have two deliveries each year, that only smells for about a week then its gone. Just hoping these horses spread it around a bit and not one spot which just happens to be the nearest point to where we eat outside. Havent made a semi permanent structure yet so will probably just move to another sunny spot without mozzies as I dropped an ash tree to make space for this one.
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I bet you’re still looking forward to having an inside loo, though.
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ROFL choked on my coffee
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Many thanks RicePudding, I hope to have a gentle word with our neighbour as the two stables are next to our pool by 3m. I would never do that to a neighbour so wouldnt expect the same. Dont mind the horses, certainly one is a quality animal possibly a sporting horse. There is plenty of paddock area they could relocate the stables by a few more metres.
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Go with a bottle of Ricard in hand as it seems to be the best lubricant for friction with neighbours.
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Horseflies are much worse a worry! If they bite you after walking on the poop you could need antibiotics for a nasty infection. 
Needing antibiotics twice after horsefly bites in a single year, the GP recommended I distance myself from the area.
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@Corona I suggest you buy this and a black bucket and some rope. Hang the bucket upside down via the rope at about horse head height. Plaster the bucket with the glue. It works well for all flies.
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Good idea @SuePJ
And to really keep things friendly, @Corona could pay a visit armed with a bottle of Pastis to ask if it’s ok to hang it on their side of the fence.
(Edited to correct spell ‘corrected’ errors)
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Presumably your pool was there before the Stables???
If so, I’m wondering how permission was granted for the Stables being built so close to it… mmm. 
presumably you can’t relocate the pool ???
but gently, gently… more is usually achieved by gentle means (eg pastis) than by wrath
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…and you catch more (horse)files with honey than vinegar. 
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