Dog-friendly pubs in Bawtry

A wet-led local on Bawtry High Street, the old Great North Road through the town, a short walk from the market place and from the tracks into Bawtry Forest on the Austerfield side. Its own Craft Union page says dogs are welcome with cosy corners, water bowls and plenty of friendly faces, and points out that a dog can sit with you for live sport or come out into the beer garden. Nothing on the page fences dogs off to one part of the building, so the bar itself is open to them. This is a sport-and-drinks pub rather than a dining room, so expect noise on a match day.

A traditional back-street pub at 12 Swan Street, a minute off Bawtry market place and away from the High Street restaurant trade, with a single-room bar, a separate pool area and several different seating corners. There is a large covered patio with picnic tables and a real fire inside, which between them cover both a wet dog and a cold one, plus a car park that makes it an easy stop after the tracks through Bawtry Forest on the Austerfield side. Two real ales are always on, Timothy Taylor Landlord plus a changing guest, and it holds a five-star Cask Marque rating. CAMRA's WhatPub survey of September 2024 lists the pub as dog friendly with no room excluded, which is the published evidence rather than the pub's own wording.

A family-run pub on Gainsborough Road at the southern edge of Bawtry, in the same hands since 2007 and trading on plain home-cooked food at sensible prices rather than on a menu that changes every season. The pub describes itself on its own site as a family and dog friendly traditional pub and serves food seven days a week, which in this part of the borough is worth knowing because most of Bawtry's High Street venues publish nothing about dogs at all. There is a beer garden behind for warm days and a takeaway service. It is the practical dog stop for Bawtry now that the woodland east of the town is behind a permit scheme.