Where can
the dog go?

The Old Bell is a pub on Royal Parade, Harrogate. It is listed here so you know it is there, but we have not yet established whether dogs are welcome — so there is no verdict on this page and no stamp. If it is your business, claim the page and tell us, and we will stamp it.

A big Craft Union pub at 223-227 Fulwood Road in Broomhill, run with the university crowd in mind and busy with screens, live entertainment and an outside drinking area at the front. The operator's own page for the pub carries a dog friendly pub section alongside those facilities, and the pub has a resident dog of its own behind the bar. It is one wide room, so the outside seating is the calmer place to settle a nervous dog when the football is on. Weston Park is five minutes east and the drop down Brocco Bank to Endcliffe Park and the Porter Valley trail takes about ten.

A Craft Union city-centre local at 26 Dixon Lane, on the old market side of town behind the Haymarket and a minute from the Fitzalan Square tram stop. It is a single room built for sport and live entertainment, with HD screens, Sky and TNT and an accessible toilet, and no dining side to be turned out of. The Grey to Green planted route along Castlegate and the Five Weirs Walk along the Don are both within five minutes, which makes it a workable stop on a river walk into town. Craft Union lists the pub on its own dog-friendly pubs page; the pub's individual page carries no policy of its own.

A straightforward Craft Union local at 94 Crookes, at the quieter western end of the shopping street past the Punch Bowl and Two Sheds. It is one open room built around sport and live entertainment, with HD screens, Sky and TNT and an accessible toilet, so a dog is better placed along the wall than in the middle on a match day. Bole Hill recreation ground is five minutes west and the steep drop into the Rivelin Valley Nature Trail starts just beyond it. Craft Union lists the pub on its own dog-friendly pubs page; the pub's individual page carries no policy of its own.

A Craft Union community local at 26 Burncross Road, on the Burncross side of Chapeltown above the old Thorncliffe ironworks. The operator's own dog-friendly page for the pub says everyone is welcome, paws included, and names water bowls and a welcome in the beer garden as well as inside the pub. It is a games-and-sport room rather than a dining one, with a dartboard, a pool table and screens, plus a car park and an accessible toilet. Chapeltown Park and the wooded path down to Thorncliffe are both a short walk, so muddy paws are expected here.

A three-roomed village pub at 96 Uppergate Road in Stannington, on the ridge between the Rivelin and Loxley valleys and an obvious finish to a Rivelin Valley Trail walk up the Hagg side. The lounge keeps its old prints and a fireplace hung with brasses, and the interior is largely as a 1962 refit left it, which puts it on CAMRA's Local Inventory of historic pub interiors; there is a real fire, a garden and parking. Bradfield Farmers Blonde plus three guests and a proper food menu. Dog friendly per CAMRA's survey dated 19 February 2021 rather than the pub's own words.

Premier Inn is a place to stay in Scarborough. It is listed here so you know it is there, but we have not yet established whether dogs are welcome — so there is no verdict on this page and no stamp. If it is your business, claim the page and tell us, and we will stamp it.

A plain three-star hotel on Shude Hill at the bottom of the city, between Fitzalan Square and the Castlegate cutting, with lifts, hard-floored corridors and its own car park. Accor's own page for the hotel lists pets welcome among the hotel services, though it names no charge and does not say which rooms take dogs, so confirm at booking. The rooms are small and simple with wipeable floors rather than deep carpet, which is easier after a wet walk. The planted Grey to Green route along Castlegate is at the door and the Five Weirs Walk along the Don starts at Victoria Quays five minutes downhill, which matters for the last walk of the night.

A seventeenth century manor house on Church Lane at Tankersley, set high with woodland behind it and a minute from junction 36 of the M1, with a free car park of its own so a dog comes out of the car onto grass rather than onto a main road. The hotel has the Woodman restaurant and a lounge bar downstairs and a spa and pool alongside the bedrooms, and the lane outside runs past Tankersley church into the field paths towards Pilley, Birdwell and the top of the Elsecar valley. Accor, which operates the hotel under its Mercure name, lists pets as welcome among the hotel services on its own page for the property, but publishes no charge, no limit on numbers and nothing about which rooms or which public areas dogs may use, so settle all of that when you book. That is the operator's own listing for the hotel rather than a written dog policy from the hotel itself.

A large hotel in its own grounds on Grange Park Lane in Willerby, about fifteen minutes' drive west of Hull city centre, with free parking and a fitness centre. Its own site says the hotel is dog friendly and welcomes small dogs if they are well behaved and quiet, one pet per room, at a charge; dogs are not allowed in the restaurant, so meals mean either room service or leaving the dog behind. Willerby is East Riding of Yorkshire, not Hull, so it is East Riding's dog control Public Spaces Protection Order that governs the ground outside; its only dog exclusions are four named North Sea beach stretches at Bridlington, Hornsea and Withernsea between 1 May and 30 September.

A year-round campsite a mile out of Pocklington on the A1079 with grass and hard-standing pitches, all with electric, plus fully furnished caravans, a heated wet-room block, an undercover washing-up area, a licensed cafe and a farm shop. The site's own rules are specific: "Dogs are welcome, a maximum of 2 per unit" and "All dogs MUST be kept on a lead at all times when on the site." Dogs are barred from the toilets and showers but well-behaved ones are welcome in the cafe and the shop, and breeds listed under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 are refused. There is no dog-walking field included, though the site's own Pock Paws secure field can be hired by the half hour.

Six converted farm buildings on Beverley Road at Walkington, three miles out of Beverley on the Wolds side, sleeping between two and twelve and graded five star gold. The owners write the dog policy in the dog's own voice and it is unusually specific: up to two small or medium dogs, Labrador-sized or under, in every cottage except High Barn where three are allowed. It is thirty pounds a dog in most of them and forty in High Barn and the Cart House because they are bigger. Dogs are not allowed in the bedrooms or bathrooms and stairgates are provided, dogs must be over a year old, house-trained and not a Dangerous Dogs Act breed, and if you go out you need to bring a crate or use the kennel.

A long-established riverside park off Viking Road on the Derwent at Stamford Bridge, a few minutes' walk from the 1727 bridge and the village square, with static holiday homes, static tourers and a Treetops holiday apartment. It holds a David Bellamy Gold conservation award and a Yorkshire in Bloom award, and the footpath along the Derwent to Low Catton starts from the Viking Road car park next door. The operator's own tariff page is explicit that only some units take a dog: "Dogs are allowed in some of our holiday homes at £15/week." So the pet-friendly caravans must be asked for by name when you book, and the charge is per dog per week.

A licensed touring caravan park, campsite and event space on Kilnhurst Road, the B6090, at Hooton Roberts in the Don valley between Rotherham and Conisbrough, run in the old buildings of a farm lodge that was a country pub with dining until 2015. There is a bar with food at events, a function room, a garden and parking, and being a campsite it is open ground rather than corridors, which suits a dog that would rather sleep in a van than a hotel room. The Don valley footpaths and the Trans Pennine Trail towards Conisbrough Viaduct are the nearest walking. Opening hours depend on what event is on, so it is worth checking before turning up. CAMRA's WhatPub survey of March 2024 records the site as dog friendly; nothing published says whether dogs may sleep in any indoor accommodation.

The cafe at Heeley City Farm on Richards Road, a free-entry working city farm on the slope between Heeley and Meersbrook. The farm's own pages say they love welcoming the whole family including furry friends, and run a Pup Menu of dog-safe snacks with handmade Sheffield treats plus a bowl of water on the house. Dogs must stay on a lead and are asked not to go into the small animal house, since the rabbits and guinea pigs inside are easily frightened; the pigs, goats and sheep in the outdoor pens are fine to walk past. The cafe itself is level and pushchair accessible with plenty of floor space, and Meersbrook Park and the Sheaf Valley path are both a few minutes away.

Marmadukes' bakery and cafe at 846 Ecclesall Road in Banner Cross, in the converted sorting office that supplies bread to their other two sites. The same company FAQ that covers the city-centre cafes says dogs are welcome inside all of them, under control and with consideration for other customers. The room is a wide converted hall with hard floors and space between the tables, which makes it the easiest of the three for a large or wet dog. Bingham Park and the Porter Valley woods are a short walk north up Rustlings Road, and Endcliffe Park is ten minutes back down the hill.

The largest of the three Marmadukes cafes, at 42 Cambridge Street between the Moor and Devonshire Green, in one of the old buildings kept when the Heart of the City blocks went up around it. The company's own FAQ says you are welcome to bring your pooches inside all of their cafes, asking only that dogs are kept under control and that you are considerate of other customers. It is walk-ins only over two floors, and the ground floor has the wider gaps between tables, which is the half to aim for with a bigger dog. Devonshire Green is the nearest grass, three minutes up Carver Street.

The original Marmadukes, opened in 2012 at 22 Norfolk Row opposite St Marie's Cathedral and a minute from the Crucible and the Lyceum. Its own FAQ says they love dogs and that you are welcome to bring your pooches inside all of their cafes, asking only that they are kept under control and that you are considerate of other customers. Inside it is a narrow two-floor room of tightly packed tables, so a small dog tucks under easily and a large one wants the front window seats. The Peace Gardens and the Winter Garden are both two minutes away for a stretch before or after.

The only cafe inside Whirlow Brook Park, off Ecclesall Road South, built into a refurbished old public toilet and bus shelter with the indoor seating housed in renovated shipping containers and two outdoor seating areas. Its own Facebook page describes it plainly as a dog friendly cafe selling food, beverages and cakes based in Whirlow Brook Park, and its own website calls it family-run and popular with walkers and dog owners. Nothing here is carpeted and most people sit outside, so a wet dog off the Limb Brook path or the Round Walk is expected rather than tolerated. Open seven days from nine in the morning until about half four.

A small family-run coffee shop on Main Street in Willerby, open Wednesday to Friday from 10am and Saturday from 9am, doing breakfast, brunch, lunch, cakes and a rotating specials board with vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options. Its own site says: "We are dog-friendly and will welcome your furry friends with water and treats." There is no area or time restriction attached to that, and they keep a notice board of regulars' dogs. Willerby is one of the Haltemprice villages and falls under East Riding of Yorkshire Council rather than Hull City Council, despite the Hull postal address.

A licensed farm-shop cafe a mile out of Pocklington on the A1079, with indoor and outdoor seating, local produce from the shop next door and a doggy menu for the field alongside. The site's own rules say that well-behaved dogs are welcome in the cafe and the shop, but that every dog must be on a lead at all times anywhere on the premises. It is shut Mondays, opens ten till two on Tuesdays and Sundays and nine till three from Wednesday to Saturday. Handy as a start or finish for the Pocklington Canal, which is twenty minutes away at Canal Head.

An award-winning cafe and haberdashery on Walkergate, a minute from Saturday Market and a couple from the Butcher Row car park, open nine till four every day but Christmas Day and Boxing Day. The shop's own words could not be clearer: "Dogs are most welcome across all our premises, and we can supply water and treats to keep your canine content." There is a menu for dogs as well as one for people, which is a rare thing this side of the Wolds. It is the obvious warm-up stop before walking out to the Westwood.

One of the city's easternmost parks, on the Bilton Grange estate and reached from Amethyst Road or Valiant Drive, with bowling greens, baseball diamonds, a trim trail, a wildlife area, a community garden and a set of low hills that the Sunday junior parkrun uses for its two-kilometre course. What makes it worth the drive with a dog is the dog agility area, which is about the only piece of purpose-built dog provision Hull City Council publishes anywhere in the city. Hull is a unitary authority entirely separate from East Riding and operates no dog control Public Spaces Protection Order at all, and unlike the council's pages for its other parks this one publishes no dog exclusion of any kind. The park is open around the clock and free; the toilets only open when the water play area is running.

A secure hire-by-the-slot dog field at The Mile on the A1079 side of Pocklington, in front of the farm shop, open every day from seven in the morning until eight at night. Slots are half an hour at £3.50 or a full hour at £7.00, and the ratio is one person to two dogs with a maximum of six dogs in the field at once unless agreed beforehand. Inside there is agility equipment, an undercover seating area, a shaded picnic bench, water and a doggy menu from the cafe. The operator warns that there is no netting under the wire, so a determined digger needs watching, and dogs must be vaccinated, wearing ID tags, accompanied at all times, and neither aggressive nor in season.

One of the largest village greens in Yorkshire, a long open rectangle of mown grass ringed by brick cottages, the church and the Jemmy Hirst, with the embanked River Aire immediately behind the north side. It is unfenced on every side and the through lanes are quiet, which makes it the easiest place in the west of the patch for a dog to stretch out for twenty minutes off the bank. Nothing here is a dog exclusion area: the council's only seasonal dog ban is on the four North Sea beaches at Bridlington, Hornsea and Withernsea, and its other restrictions are named children's play areas. The green is used for the Rawcliffe Feast and for cricket in summer, so pick your corner.

A hundred and fifty acres of ponds, meadow, wetland and young woodland off Lidice Road on the north-west edge of Goole, easily the biggest piece of open ground in the town and far quieter than West Park. A surfaced track runs from the car park to the main pond and the ranger station, crossing an infrequently used railway line by pedestrian gates and a concrete crossing, and surfaced paths ring the main pond and the Brick Ponds. The meadow and wood paths are firm but unsurfaced and there are three flights of steps in the trees. The council's own reserve information asks that dogs are kept under close control and out of all the ponds and reed beds, and that bagged waste goes in the bin at the entrance.

A wooded chalk valley dropping to the RNLI slipway on the south side of the Flamborough headland, with a circular nature trail through the trees and out along the clifftop above Bridlington Bay. The council countryside service asks only that a dog is kept under close control and picked up after, noting that not everyone is comfortable around dogs, so there is no lead rule and no seasonal ban here in any month. The main access path has a firm surface, is wide enough to walk two abreast and is suitable for a wheelchair, and there is an access-for-all route round the two ponds with interpretation boards and picnic benches a hundred metres along the trail. The beach is down seventy-five steep steps. Admission is free, parking is charged for a hundred cars on the upper level, and the lower level is RNLI and permit holders only with fixed penalties for anyone else.

The Priory Church of St Mary on The Bolt in the Old Town, the surviving nave of an Augustinian house founded in 1113 and one of the largest parish churches in the country, with the Bayle gatehouse alongside it. The Priory holds Animal-Friendly Church status and is a member of the Anglican Society for the Welfare of Animals, and says in its own words that dogs, and well-behaved owners, are welcome at the Priory. Its own pages go further and say visitors with assistance and pet dogs are welcome and that a water bowl is put out during services. It is open to the public Monday to Friday eleven to three and Saturday ten to twelve, and the churchyard, managed as a living churchyard for wildlife, is open at any time. Parking is on-street around Church Green and Kirkgate, or in the Old Town car park off Applegarth Lane.

Sixty-four hectares of reclaimed colliery ground off Lund Hill Lane on the Royston side of the Dearne, built on the spoil of Monkton Colliery and Royston Drift Mine and opened as a country park in 2011. The paths climb to open viewpoints over the whole Dearne valley, with woodland and wetland below and a rabbit figure cut into the hillside by local schoolchildren. There is a free car park with a 2.1 metre height barrier and seasonal opening, plus alternative parking on Lund Hill Lane itself. The Land Trust, which manages the site, states plainly on its own page for the park that dogs are welcome.

The old Hornsea Freeport on Rolston Road, now trading as Hornsea Village, is an outdoor outlet shopping village of low brick units around lawns and lakes on the southern edge of the town. Its own visitor page says it is a dog friendly shopping centre, that some stores allow dogs inside, and that there are water bowls around the village and plenty of seating, so the honest position is that the open ground is yours and each shop decides for itself at its own door. Parking is free in two large public car parks with allocated disabled bays. Opening is ten to half five Monday to Friday, half nine to half five on Saturday and eleven to five on Sunday. Cycling is not permitted around the village, which keeps the paths calm for a dog on a lead.