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The Grooms House
Self catering Accommodation
North Wales
Tel 01745 812454
Self catering Accommodation
North Wales
Tel 01745 812454
Eriviat Hall
Available for
Group Accommodation
Available for
Group Accommodation
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A Grooms Role
A groom is an employee who is responsible for some or all aspects of the welfare of a stable owner's horses and/or the care of the stables themselves.
The word appeared in English as grome c.1225, meaning "male child, boy, youth" but nobody knows whence.
It has no known cognates in other Germanic languages (e.g. Dutch and German use compound terms, such as Stal(l)knecht 'stable servant', or equivalents of synonyms mentioned below). Perhaps its stems from an Old English root groma, related to growan "grow" or from Old French grommet "servant" (compare Medieval English gromet for "ship's boy", recorded since 1229).
The meaning "male servant who attends to horses" is from 1667. The verb is first attested in 1809; the transferred sense of "to tidy (oneself) up" is from 1843; the figuratrive sense of "to prepare a candidate" is from 1887, originally in U.S. politics.
Grooms may be employed in private residence or in professional horse training facilities such as stables, agistment properties and rideing academies.
The groom(s) usually clean stables (mucking-out), feed, exercise and groom horses.
A groom in private service is expected to be 'on call' during specified hours in case any member of the employer's family wishes to ride.
Grooms whose employers are involved in horse sports or horse racing are often required to travel with their employers to provide support services during competitions. The services required vary with the type of competition and range from simply ensuring that the horse is ready for the start of the competition to warming the horse up beforehand.
In combined driving the groom is the passenger, and at speed is required to shift their weight to balance the carriage.
In large establishments there may be several grooms under the management of the head groom or stablemaster. In many cases the head groom has complete responsibility for the horses including devising training schedules, choosing feeds for optimum nutrition and ensuring the horses are shod, wormed, inoculated and provided with timely veterinary care.
Several words originally denoting stable staff have developed into other, often much higher titles, notably Constable, Equery, Henchman and Marshall..
A groom is an employee who is responsible for some or all aspects of the welfare of a stable owner's horses and/or the care of the stables themselves.
The word appeared in English as grome c.1225, meaning "male child, boy, youth" but nobody knows whence.
It has no known cognates in other Germanic languages (e.g. Dutch and German use compound terms, such as Stal(l)knecht 'stable servant', or equivalents of synonyms mentioned below). Perhaps its stems from an Old English root groma, related to growan "grow" or from Old French grommet "servant" (compare Medieval English gromet for "ship's boy", recorded since 1229).
The meaning "male servant who attends to horses" is from 1667. The verb is first attested in 1809; the transferred sense of "to tidy (oneself) up" is from 1843; the figuratrive sense of "to prepare a candidate" is from 1887, originally in U.S. politics.
Grooms may be employed in private residence or in professional horse training facilities such as stables, agistment properties and rideing academies.
The groom(s) usually clean stables (mucking-out), feed, exercise and groom horses.
A groom in private service is expected to be 'on call' during specified hours in case any member of the employer's family wishes to ride.
Grooms whose employers are involved in horse sports or horse racing are often required to travel with their employers to provide support services during competitions. The services required vary with the type of competition and range from simply ensuring that the horse is ready for the start of the competition to warming the horse up beforehand.
In combined driving the groom is the passenger, and at speed is required to shift their weight to balance the carriage.
In large establishments there may be several grooms under the management of the head groom or stablemaster. In many cases the head groom has complete responsibility for the horses including devising training schedules, choosing feeds for optimum nutrition and ensuring the horses are shod, wormed, inoculated and provided with timely veterinary care.
Several words originally denoting stable staff have developed into other, often much higher titles, notably Constable, Equery, Henchman and Marshall..