Dog-friendly Hadrian’s Wall & Tynedale

A handsome coaching inn at the end of Corbridge bridge, with a proper bar on one side and a smarter dining room on the other. Both the bar and the lounge are dog-friendly areas; most of the bedrooms take dogs and the remainder are kept deliberately dog-free. Walkers and cyclists are welcomed in the same breath as dogs.

A plain town-centre local by the market place, with sport on and no pretensions to food. Listed by its operator as a dog-friendly pub. The obvious pint if you have a dog and the abbey has just turned you away, since only assistance dogs are allowed inside the abbey itself.

The walkers' inn on the Military Road below Steel Rigg, with its own brewery, an observatory and a car park full of boots. Dogs are welcome in the bar area for evening meals and breakfast, and there are dedicated dog-friendly bedrooms plus three cabins that all take dogs. Dogs cannot join the stargazing events and must not be left alone in a room.

All-day cafe-bar off the market place, mismatched furniture and a long menu, open from breakfast to late. Dog friendly, and one of the few doors in central Hexham that says so outright. Useful for a rainy afternoon between the abbey and the car park.

A bright cafe by the bridge at Chollerford, five minutes from Chesters and on the Hadrian's Wall bus route. Well-behaved dogs are welcomed inside as well as out, which is not the norm in cafes on this stretch. Breakfasts, sandwiches and cake, with tables by the North Tyne.

Three and a half miles and 195 metres of climbing in about two hours through the largest area of ancient semi-natural woodland in Northumberland, up one bank of the River Allen and back over Morralee Tarn. Start at the National Trust car park at Ridley Hall, signposted from the A69 between Haydon Bridge and Bardon Mill; it is charged for non-members and holds about 80 cars. This is a genuinely good off-lead wood with the Allen alongside the whole way for a drink and a swim, but the gorge paths run along steep drops above the river, the suspension bridge bounces and some dogs baulk at it, and red squirrels are a reason to keep a recall close.

Three and three quarter miles in about an hour and a half over rolling country with a fine stretch of Wall, east to Caw Gap and back by Great Chesters fort. Start at the Cawfields Quarry car park north of Haltwhistle, a National Park pay-and-display with picnic tables beside the flooded quarry, which is the easiest parking anywhere on this section. The quarry lake is fenced with steep sides and deep water so dogs are better kept out of it, the Wall pasture is grazed by sheep with several ladder stiles, and the Haltwhistle Burn provides the only drinkable water.

Three and a half easy miles in an hour and three quarters on the flat river meadows, upstream to the Roman supply town at Corstopitum and back through the village. Park at the bridge-end car park south of the Tyne, free for two hours, or the longer-stay car park behind Hill Street; both are five minutes from the start. Wide open haughs give a good off-lead run with plenty of river access, but the grass is grazed at times, the Tyne is fast and cold after rain, and dogs on leads are allowed round the Roman site though not in its museum.

Six miles in three hours or so, north out of the village past the Roman town and up quiet lanes and field paths to the fortified manor house at Aydon, returning by Aydon Bank. Start from the car park on the south side of the Tyne bridge at Corbridge, which is free for two hours only, so a longer stay means the village pay-and-display off Hill Street. The lanes carry little traffic but have no pavement, several fields are grazed by cattle, and Aydon Castle is a paid English Heritage site with its own rules, so most walkers admire it from the gate and carry on.

A flat three-mile hour and a half on both banks of the Tyne, from Tyne Green past the golf course to the old bridge and back along the water. Start from the free Tyne Green Country Park car park below the town, which is large, unmetered and the one place in Hexham you can leave a car all day for nothing. Open riverside grass makes this the best off-lead walk in the town, with easy shelving access to the Tyne for a swim, though the current runs fast after rain and the golf course section asks for dogs to be kept close.

Five and a half miles of level walking in under three hours, downstream on riverside and woodland paths by Dilston to the bridge at Corbridge. Begin at the free Tyne Green car park in Hexham and take the train or the 685 bus back; both run frequently and the rail journey is one stop. Long stretches of quiet riverbank where a dog can be loose, plenty of Tyne access for a drink and a swim, but there are two farm fields with cattle, a short length of lane without a verge, and the paths flood after heavy rain.

An old farmstead turned green-minded hotel in Wark, with a walled garden feeding the kitchen and a dark sky observatory in the grounds. Dogs share ground-floor rooms or the luxury lodges, at a small nightly charge, and guests are asked to bring their own dog bedding. The North Tyne and the Wark forest tracks are on the doorstep.

A wooded, well-kept park at Acomb, two miles from Hexham and inside a short drive of the wall. Up to two dogs per pitch, and they must be on a lead at all times on site. The park makes a point of its dog-friendly reputation and of the walks straight off the site.

A small, quiet campsite between Haltwhistle and Once Brewed, well placed for the crags and popular with wall walkers and birdwatchers. Dogs are accepted with a limit of two per pitch and must be kept on a lead while on site. Everything around it is livestock farmland, which the owners are direct about.

Glamping pods, a lodge and a touring field on the hill above Haltwhistle, set up for dogs down to a hot-water dog wash by the wash block. The site publishes its own dog checklist and local dog walks. Cawfields Quarry and the wall are a mile and a half up the lane.

A fourteenth-century tower house turned hotel in ten acres of woodland south of Haydon Bridge, seven-foot walls and all. It keeps family and dog-friendly rooms and a published dog policy, and the Drawing Room takes dogs for afternoon tea and relaxed dining. Grand without being stiff, and the grounds are yours to walk.

A fortified manor house in a wooded dene north of Corbridge, largely unaltered since the thirteenth century and usually almost empty. English Heritage lists it as dog-friendly, with dogs on leads. The approach lane is single track and the parking small.

The cavalry fort of Cilurnum beside the North Tyne, with the best-preserved Roman bath house on the wall down by the river. English Heritage lists it among its dog-friendly properties, with dogs on leads across the site. Flat, grassy and easy going compared with the crags.

A Roman supply town rather than a fort, with a street you can walk down and granaries still standing to shoulder height. English Heritage lists it among its dog-friendly properties, dogs on leads. Level paths and a short walk from Corbridge village make it the easiest Roman site in the valley with a dog.

The most complete fort on the wall, laid out on a ridge with a half-mile uphill walk from the car park to reach it. English Heritage lists Housesteads among its dog-friendly properties, dogs on leads throughout. Sheep graze the whole site and the wall path either side of it.

The car park at the top of the crags, and the start of the best mile of Hadrian's Wall: up over Peel Crags and down to the dip where the sycamore stood until 2023. The national park asks that dogs are kept on leads on the wall paths, which cross grazing land and ground-nesting bird country. Steep steps, drop-offs on the north side and no shade at all.

A fourteenth-century tower house built out of stolen Roman stone, standing above the Tipalt Burn a short walk from Greenhead. Free, unstaffed and never busy, with a footpath approach through fields. Leads on, as the national park asks throughout its grazing land.