North Yorkshire · 2 places checked
2 places on our list here — walks from the village, beach access. Every verdict below was checked by a human — the stamp shows when.
A mile and a half of sand and shingle under the red sandstone of St Bees Head, and the start of the Coast to Coast walk. Cumberland Council sets no seasonal dog ban on the sand, so this is a year-round beach; the restrictions are on the grass behind it rather than the shore.
Know a St Bees pub, cafe or place to stay that lets dogs in? Tell us and we will go and check it.
ADD A PLACEFive miles and about two and a half hours for 210 metres of climb, north from the beach along the top of the red sandstone cliffs to the shingle cove at Fleswick Bay and the lighthouse on North Head - the first miles of the coast-to-coast walk, done in reverse. It starts at the Seacote beach car park in St Bees, which is paid, holds around 200 cars and is the largest on this coast; St Bees station on the Cumbrian Coast line is ten minutes' walk inland. The clifftop is the honest warning: an unfenced 90-metre drop for three miles with the RSPB seabird colonies below, so a short lead the whole way, and the field boundaries above are grazed. Dogs on the beach itself are covered by a Cumberland Council dog control order - read the signs at the access points before you let one onto the sand.
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