Dog-friendly The Cumbrian Coast

Balmoral Hotel

Silloth · CA7 4AB

Balmoral Hotel is a pub on Criffel Street, Silloth. 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.

Barra Jacks

Barra Jacks is a pub on Market Place, Whitehaven. 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.

Billy McGrady's Irish Bar

Billy McGrady's Irish Bar is a pub on New Lowther Street, Whitehaven. 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.

Black Bull

Cockermouth · CA13 9LE

Black Bull is a pub on Main Street, Cockermouth. 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 Bell

Workington · CA14 4DJ

Blue Bell is a pub on King Street, Workington. 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.

Brewers Fayre

Cockermouth · CA13 0QX

Brewers Fayre is a pub on Egremnot Road, Cockermouth. 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.

Restaurants & cafés · 109

41 Market Place

Cockermouth · CA13 9LT

41 Market Place is a place to eat on Market Place, Cockermouth. 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.

Abby's Café

Abby's Café is a place to eat on King Street, Whitehaven. 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.

Akash Tandoori

Whitehaven · CA28 7UZ

Akash Tandoori is a place to eat on Tangier Street, Whitehaven. 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.

Ali Taj Tandoori Takeaway

Ali Taj Tandoori Takeaway is a place to eat on Tangier Street, Whitehaven. 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.

Angry Boba

Angry Boba is a place to eat in Whitehaven. 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.

Anna's

Whitehaven · CA28 7HR

Anna's is a place to eat in Whitehaven. 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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Beaches · 7

Beach DOGS WELCOME Dogs all year

Allonby Beach

Allonby

A wide, shallow beach of sand and shingle on the Solway, backed by a village green and the old sea-bathing terraces. No seasonal dog ban applies, and the tide goes a long way out; keep dogs on leads where the shore meets grazing land and away from nesting birds.

Beach DOGS WELCOME Dogs all year

Maryport Promenade and South Beach

Maryport

Sand and shingle running south from the Georgian harbour, with a promenade above it and the Solway opening out to the north. No seasonal dog ban applies to the beach; the play areas at Camp Road and Ennerdale Road are dog exclusion areas under the council order.

Beach DOGS WELCOME Dogs all year

Silloth West Beach

Silloth

Cobble and sand along the Solway shore below the promenade and Silloth Green, looking across to the Scottish hills. There is no seasonal dog ban under the Cumberland order, but this is a bird coast: keep dogs under control near the feeding and nesting areas and on the lead around the grazing stock.

Beach SOME LIMITS Dogs all year

Haverigg Beach

Millom · LA18 4EX

A wide sand and shingle beach at the mouth of the Duddon, backed by marram dunes and running west towards Silecroft with Black Combe standing behind it. At low water the sand is firm and vast. There is no seasonal dog ban here: Cumberland Council's dog control order lists no beach anywhere in the county as either a dog exclusion area or a dogs-on-lead area, so the sand is open to dogs off the lead all year round, which is a genuine finding rather than a gap in the record. What is restricted is the land behind the beach. There are no lifeguards and the Duddon channel runs hard on the ebb, so keep a swimming dog well away from the mouth of the estuary.

Off-lead allowed

VERIFIED 30 JUL 2026 VIEW ›

Beach SOME LIMITS Dogs all year

Seascale Beach

Seascale

A long, flat sweep of sand below the sea wall and the old railway station, with the Isle of Man visible on a clear evening and dunes at the north end. There is no seasonal dog ban here, which makes it one of the more useful summer beaches in west Cumbria.

Beach SOME LIMITS Dogs all year

St Bees Beach

St Bees · CA27 0ES

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.

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Walks · 24

5.4 MI · OUT & BACK

Livestock — leads on Off-lead allowed

Allonby to Dubmill Point

Allonby

5.4MILES

2:11TIME

20mCLIMB

84%OFF-ROAD

Five and a half miles and a little over two hours with almost no climb at all, north along the Solway shore from Allonby's green to the rocky scar at Dubmill Point and back on the coast path behind the shingle bank. It starts on the green at Allonby, where parking is free along the front and by the old baths, and the walk needs no gates or stiles from end to end. This is a big empty beach walk with the Galloway hills across the firth, and the sand is firm enough to run a dog on for miles, but the shore is grazed in places by cattle brought down to the marsh, Dubmill Point is a fast-tide corner where the road floods on spring tides, and the promenade is covered by a Cumberland Council dog control order - check the signs on the day.

VERIFIED 29 JUL 2026 VIEW WALK ›

5.4 MI · LOOP

Black Combe from Whicham Church

Silecroft · LA18 5LU

5.4MILES

3:30TIME

550mCLIMB

90%OFF-ROAD

The hill that stands over the whole of the Millom peninsula, climbed by the old pony track from St Mary's Church at Whicham, half a mile inland of Silecroft station. It is a long steady pull on grass with no scrambling and no crags on this side, and from the trig point you look down the Duddon, along the Cumbrian coast and out to the Isle of Man on a clear day. The whole summit dome is registered open access land grazed by sheep all year, so this is a lead walk in practice for most of the ascent. There is no water on the route above the intake wall.

2.6 MI · LOOP

Harrington Nature Reserve and the harbour

Workington · CA14 5LD

2.6MILES

1:25TIME

80mCLIMB

65%OFF-ROAD

Up from the little marina at Harrington through the streets to the nature reserve on Moorclose Road, round the two flower meadows, the Ellerbeck and the reservoir that locals call the Rezzer, then back down to the harbour and the sea wall. The reserve path is even and wheel-friendly and takes twenty minutes on its own; joined to the harbour it makes a proper short walk. Kingfishers use the beck and there are toads and dragonflies on the reservoir, which is why the council designates the reserve a dogs-on-lead area. Parking is a layby by the reserve entrance or the harbour itself.

3.4 MI · LOOP

Haverigg dunes and Millom Sands

Millom · LA18 4EX

3.4MILES

1:45TIME

20mCLIMB

85%OFF-ROAD

Off-lead allowed

Out along the sand west from the Haverigg beach car park with Black Combe filling the view inland, then back through the marram dunes and along the Haverigg pool into the village. At low water the sand is firm and enormous and a dog can run for a mile without meeting a road; at high water the walk is on the dune paths instead, which are soft going. There is no seasonal dog ban on this beach. The play area at Haverigg is the one place on the route dogs may not go.

3.2 MI · LOOP

Hodbarrow lagoon and the outer barrier

Millom · LA18 4JY

3.2MILES

1:40TIME

25mCLIMB

90%OFF-ROAD

A circuit of the lagoon at RSPB Hodbarrow, the flooded pit of the old Hodbarrow iron mine, held back from the Duddon by a massive outer sea barrier. The main path in from the Mainsgate Road car park is rolled stone, firm and wide enough for a wheelchair, and runs a mile and a half to the hide; beyond that the barrier gives an open walk to the lighthouse with the estuary on one side and the lagoon on the other. Terns, ringed plovers and oystercatchers breed on the shingle here and natterjack toads use the pools, which is why the RSPB requires leads throughout. There are no toilets on site, the nearest being a mile away at Haverigg.

2.8 MI · LOOP

Maryport Coastal Park and Bank End

Maryport · CA15 8AA

2.8MILES

1:25TIME

55mCLIMB

70%OFF-ROAD

North along the promenade from the sea wall car park onto the grassland of the coastal park at Bank End, then back on the inland path below the Roman fort site. It is short, open and entirely on made surfaces and grass, with the Solway on one side and Criffel across the water, and it is where most of Maryport walks its dogs. The seaward grass is unfenced above a shingle shore, so a dog can get down to the water at several points. Cumberland Council designates Land at Ennerdale Road, at the southern end, as both a dogs-on-lead and a dog exclusion area, so read the signs before crossing the grass there.

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Stays · 71

Abbey Farm House

St Bees · CA27 0DY

Abbey Farm House is a place to stay on Abbey Road, St Bees. 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.

Allerdale Court Hotel

Cockermouth · CA13 9NQ

Allerdale Court Hotel is a place to stay on Market Place, Cockermouth. 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.

Bank Cottage

Cockermouth · CA13 9PD

Bank Cottage is a place to stay on Victoria Court, Cockermouth. 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.

Baywatch Hotel

Allonby

Baywatch Hotel is a place to stay in Allonby. 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.

Beeches Caravan Park

Gilcrux

Beeches Caravan Park is a place to stay in Gilcrux. 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 Dial Caravan Park

Crosscanonby

Blue Dial Caravan Park is a place to stay in Crosscanonby. 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.

Attractions · 1

Attraction SOME LIMITS

Lake District Coast Aquarium

Maryport · CA15 8AB

A small independent aquarium on Maryport harbourside, with a cafe, a tackle shop and crazy golf outside, and it is genuinely a wet-day option. Well-behaved dogs are welcome in the cafe and the gift shop, but only guide dogs may go into the aquarium exhibits.