Dog-friendly Windermere and around

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The Crafty Baa

LA23 1AB

A narrow craft beer bar on Victoria Street in Windermere town, a couple of minutes from the station and clad inside with beer crates and bottle labels. Its own site bills it as a "Dog & Child Friendly Venue" and advertises free snack treats for dogs, so the welcome is to the inside of the bar rather than a yard. It is open 11am to 11pm daily with food from 1pm to 9pm, and the room is small enough that a large dog will be in the way at Friday teatime. Useful if you have come off School Knott or Orrest Head and want somewhere in the town rather than down at Bowness.

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Pie & Pint

LA23 1AB

Pie & Pint is a pub on Victoria Street, Windermere. 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.

SolBar

LA23 3EB

SolBar is a pub on Ash Street, Windermere. 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.

The Brookside

LA23 2BX

The Brookside is a pub on Lake Road, Windermere. 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.

The Elleray

LA23 1AE

The Elleray is a pub on Cross Street, Windermere. 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.

The Queens

LA23 1AB

The Queens is a pub on Victoria Street, Windermere. 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.

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Restaurants & cafés · 37 All restaurants & cafés in Windermere →

ASAP Coffee

LA23 1EA

ASAP Coffee is a place to eat on Crescent Road, Windermere. 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.

Bandito Burrito

LA23 1DY

Bandito Burrito is a place to eat on Main Road, Windermere. 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.

Beresford's

LA23 2JG

Beresford's is a place to eat on Beresford Road, Windermere. 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.

Blue Smoke at Low Wood Bay

LA23 1LP

Blue Smoke at Low Wood Bay is a place to eat on Ambleside Road, Windermere. 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.

Booths Cafe

LA23 1QA

Booths Cafe is a place to eat on Victoria Street, Windermere. 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.

Brambalino's Bistro

Brambalino's Bistro is a place to eat on Main Road, Windermere. 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.

Brew Room

LA23 1BL

Brew Room is a place to eat on Crescent Road, Windermere. 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.

Brown Sugar

LA23 1DY

Brown Sugar is a place to eat on Main Road, Windermere. 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.

Cafe Italia

Cafe Italia is a place to eat on Main Road, Windermere. 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.

Francine's

Francine's is a place to eat on Main Road, Windermere. 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.

Holbeck Ghyll Restaurant

Holbeck Ghyll Restaurant is a place to eat on Holbeck Lane, Windermere. 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.

Homeground

Homeground is a place to eat on Main Road, Windermere. 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.

Hooked

LA23 1DP

Hooked is a place to eat on Ellerthwaite Square, Windermere. 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.

Joey's Cafe

LA23 1LJ

Joey's Cafe is a place to eat in Windermere. 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.

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Walks · 3 All walks in Windermere →

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Livestock — leads on Off-lead allowed

Claife Heights, Latterbarrow and Wray Castle

Windermere

10.2MILES

4:48TIME

420mCLIMB

90%OFF-ROAD

Ten miles and close to five hours up the quiet western shore of Windermere, through the Claife plantations to Latterbarrow's cairn and back past Wray Castle - forest track for much of it, so it drains well and works in winter. Start at the Ferry House on the west bank, reached by the Windermere car ferry from Bowness, which takes dogs at no extra charge and saves the long drive round by Newby Bridge. Almost all of it is enclosed woodland and track where a dog can be off the lead, there is lake access at High Wray Bay for a swim, but the two fields below Latterbarrow are grazed and the forest is worked - keep to the lead if machinery is out.

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Orrest Head from Windermere station

Windermere · LA23 1AH

2.3MILES

1:05TIME

100mCLIMB

88%OFF-ROAD

Two and a quarter miles and an hour, 100 metres of climb on a surfaced zigzag that was rebuilt to be manageable in any weather - the standard first view of the lake and worth the modest effort. It begins directly opposite Windermere railway station, which makes it the easiest Lakeland walk in the county to reach without a car; the station car park is paid and the free roadside spaces on Ellerthwaite go early. The lower path is fenced and good for a lead-free stretch, but the top field is grazed and the summit rocks sit above a sudden drop on the north side, so leads from the last gate; there is no water on the route, so bring some.

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School Knott and School Knott Tarn from Windermere

Windermere · LA23 1AH

3.5MILES

1:55TIME

190mCLIMB

72%OFF-ROAD

The other hill out of Windermere town, quieter than Orrest Head because it faces away from the lake. From the station the lane climbs east past Lickbarrow, then field paths lead onto open ground and a small reedy tarn sits in a fold below the summit. The 232m top gives the whole length of Windermere one way and the Kentmere fells the other. The ground is grazed the whole way once you leave the tarmac, so this is a lead walk from the last gate onwards regardless of the season.

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Stays · 134 All stays in Windermere →

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Low Wood Bay Resort and Spa

LA23 1LP

VERIFIED 29 JUL 2026 VIEW ›

A large lakeshore resort between Windermere and Ambleside, with its own marina and watersports centre. Dogs are welcome nearly everywhere on the estate: the exceptions are the Winander Club, both hotel restaurants and the spa, so plan meals around a room service tray or the bar.

1 Park Road

LA23 2AW

1 Park Road is a place to stay on Park Road, Windermere. 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.

48 Oak Street

LA23 1EN

48 Oak Street is a place to stay on Oak Street, Windermere. 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.

Abacus Guest House

LA23 2LB

Abacus Guest House is a place to stay on Upper Oak Street, Windermere. 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.

Adam Place

LA23 2AR

Adam Place is a place to stay on Park Avenue, Windermere. 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.

Alice Howe

LA23 1AJ

Alice Howe is a place to stay on The Terrace, Windermere. 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.

All Seasons

LA23 1AF

All Seasons is a place to stay on High Street, Windermere. 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.

All Seasons Rest

LA23 1AF

All Seasons Rest is a place to stay on High Street, Windermere. 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.

Applegarth Villa

LA23 1BU

Applegarth Villa is a place to stay on College Road, Windermere. 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.

Ashleigh House

LA23 1BU

Ashleigh House is a place to stay on College Road, Windermere. 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.

Autumn Leaves

LA23 2AB

Autumn Leaves is a place to stay on Broad Street, Windermere. 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.

Bannerrigg

LA23 1AJ

Bannerrigg is a place to stay on The Terrace, Windermere. 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.

Beaumont House

LA23 2AF

Beaumont House is a place to stay on Holly Road, Windermere. 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.

Beckmead

LA23 2AR

Beckmead is a place to stay on Park Avenue, Windermere. 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.

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Pub 0.9 mi SOME LIMITS

The Angel Inn

Bowness · LA23 3BU

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A pub with rooms above the bay at Bowness, with a beer garden that looks across Windermere to the Langdale Pikes. Dogs use the designated dog-friendly areas of the pub, restaurant and garden, and stay in selected bedrooms for a nightly supplement.

VERIFIED 29 JUL 2026 VIEW ›

Stay 1.0 mi SOME LIMITS

Craig Manor Hotel

Bowness · LA23 2JF

A Victorian house on Lake Road on the hill above Bowness, ten minutes down to the bay and the piers. Its own site states plainly that well-behaved dogs are welcome in its pet-friendly rooms, and equally plainly that those rooms can only be booked by telephone rather than through the website. That is the detail worth knowing: an online booking will not get you a dog room. No dog charge is published and the site says nothing about the bar and lounge.

Pub 1.0 mi SOME LIMITS

The Albert

Bowness · LA23 3BY

A Robinsons house on Queens Square in the middle of Bowness, a couple of minutes back from the bay and open from 11am every day, later than most on Fridays and Saturdays. The brewery's own page for the pub lists it as dog friendly. It is a straightforward town local rather than a destination dining room, which is why it works when the lakeside places are full of coach parties. Handy at the end of the promenade and Cockshott Point circuit.

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Pub 1.0 mi SOME LIMITS

The Village Inn

Bowness · LA23 3DE

A Greene King pub on Lake Road in Bowness, a minute up from the bay and open 11am to 11pm with food served to 9pm. The chain lists dog friendly among the pub's facilities and publishes the same house rules across its estate: a lead indoors and out, dogs off the furniture, and the welcome at the manager's discretion. There is a beer garden, which matters here because the inside fills quickly with coach trade in season. It is the closest pub with a garden to the Glebe and Cockshott Point walk.

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Restaurant 1.1 mi SOME LIMITS

BAHA

Bowness · LA23 3EB

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An Asian barbecue restaurant and bar on three floors at 18 Ash Street, a minute up from the Bowness piers. Its own dog page puts the welcome on the ground floor: "Our ground-floor bar is a laid-back spot where you can eat, drink, and relax with your pup", with dogs welcome during all daytime hours, water bowls and treats. Small dogs are also taken upstairs in the first-floor restaurant. They suggest coming before 1pm or after 4pm at weekends if your dog is nervous, which is honest advice for a busy three-storey building.

Attraction 1.1 mi SOME LIMITS

Windermere Lake Cruises

Bowness · LA23 3HE

The scheduled boats out of Bowness Pier, running north to Waterhead at Ambleside and south to Lakeside, and the single most useful thing on this lake if you want a linear walk with a dog. Their published policy is that well-behaved dogs travel free on every cruise and on the self-drive boats, with no need to add the dog to an online booking. A lead is required for the whole journey and dogs must stay off the seats. The Ambleside sailing lets you walk one shore and ride back rather than retracing the A591.

Restaurant 1.2 mi DOGS WELCOME

The Bluebird Cafe

Bowness · LA23 3HJ

The Bowness sister of the Coniston cafe, on Glebe Road right on the lake front between the piers and Cockshott Point. The company's own site states the Bowness policy without qualification as "Dogs welcome", where the Coniston entry on the same page limits dogs to the terrace, so this is the more useful of the two if the weather has turned. It opens 9.30am to 4.30pm daily with hot food until 4pm. It sits directly on the Glebe, which is the promenade section where the council's dogs order requires a lead.

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Bowness promenade, Cockshott Point and Ferry Nab

Bowness · LA23 3HE

1.8MILES

50mTIME

25mCLIMB

70%OFF-ROAD

The lakeside circuit south out of Bowness Bay, and the only easy way to get a dog to the water's edge in the middle of town without crossing the launch slipways. From the Glebe Road car park the promenade runs north to the piers, then back south across the Glebe to the point at Cockshott, where the shore path swings round to face Belle Isle. Ferry Nab and the Windermere Ferry slip close the loop, and the return leg is along Ferry Nab Road. Two of the three named sections carry a lead requirement under the council's dogs order, so treat this as an on-lead walk throughout.

Restaurant 1.6 mi DOGS WELCOME

Marina View Restaurant and Bar

Bowness · LA23 3JQ

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The restaurant at Windermere Marina Village, south of Bowness past Ferry Nab, looking out over the moorings. Its own page states that there are "spacious indoor and outdoor seating areas where dogs are welcome", with fresh water bowls and complimentary dog treats, and it makes a point of taking muddy paws. Because it is inside as well as out, it is one of the few options round Bowness that still works in weather. The walk in along Ferry Nab Road is a dogs-on-leads area under the council's order.

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Troutbeck Tongue and Hagg Gill

Troutbeck · LA23 1PL

7MILES

4:00TIME

350mCLIMB

92%OFF-ROAD

The long quiet valley walk behind Troutbeck, up the bridleway along Hagg Gill under the Yoke ridge, round the head of the dale and back down the west side of the Tongue by the Trout Beck. The Tongue itself is the whaleback hill of 364m in the middle of the valley and can be added from the north end. Troutbeck Park is a working sheep farm and the whole route crosses grazed in-bye and fell, with lambs on the valley floor from March. The bridleway is wet underfoot for most of its length even in a dry spell.

8.7 MI · LOOP

Livestock — leads on Water bowls

Orrest Head, Brant Fell and Bowness Bay

Bowness · LA23 1AH

8.7MILES

4:03TIME

350mCLIMB

72%OFF-ROAD

Eight and three quarter miles and four hours, linking the two viewpoints above the lake with the length of Bowness in between: quiet lanes and field paths north of Windermere, then the Dales Way out of Bowness Bay onto the little rocky top of Brant Fell. It starts at Windermere station and can be broken at Bowness Bay, where the 599 bus runs back up the hill every twenty minutes in season. There is drinking water and a bowl outside several of the Bowness cafes, the bay itself is a good paddle away from the boat landings, but the middle mile through the town is pavement and busy with day visitors, and both fell tops are grazed - lead on above the last gate.

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Wansfell Pike from Troutbeck

Troutbeck

6.7MILES

3:41TIME

550mCLIMB

88%OFF-ROAD

Six and three quarter miles and 550 metres of ascent, close to four hours: the old walled lanes above Troutbeck, then a steep grassy pull to the Pike for the best single view down Windermere, returning by Nanny Lane. It starts at Jesus Church in Troutbeck, where the roadside space is limited to a handful of cars - the village car park by the institute is the better bet, or the 508 bus from Windermere stops on the main road below. The lanes are walled and enclosed, which makes the first two miles easy going for a dog, but the summit slope is open grazed fell with sheep on it all year and the descent is loose and stony, hard on soft pads in dry weather.

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Garburn Pass and Yoke from Troutbeck

Troutbeck · LA23 1PW

9MILES

5:30TIME

700mCLIMB

92%OFF-ROAD

The old packhorse road over Garburn from Troutbeck to Kentmere, taken as far as the pass and then north up the broad ridge to Yoke at 706m, the first top of the Kentmere horseshoe. The Garburn road is a rebuilt stone track, hard going underfoot but never in doubt, and the ridge above it is grassy and wide. The return drops west off Yoke to the Hagg Gill bridleway and back down the valley past Troutbeck Park. Sheep are on every yard of this from the first gate, and the Garburn track is also used by mountain bikes at speed.

Pub 2.5 mi SOME LIMITS

The Queen's Head

Troutbeck · LA23 1PW

The seventeenth-century coaching inn at Town Head on the A592, high on the east side of the Troutbeck valley with the Kirkstone road climbing past the door. Its own site describes the place as "a cosy, dog-friendly haven" with "a warm Lakeland welcome for visitors both two-legged and four-legged", dog-friendly bedrooms, a dog menu and a wash station. It is the natural finish for Wansfell Pike or the Garburn Pass, and the walk down to Troutbeck Bridge is all lane. No dog charge is published, so ring before booking a room.

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