Dog-friendly pubs in Mexborough

A micro bar at 88a Bank Street, a few minutes on foot from Mexborough High Street and the railway station, with bottled beers and cans rather than handpulled cask, a small garden and live music nights. There is one step in and a ground-floor accessible toilet, and the room is small enough that a dog will be under the table rather than roaming. The towpath of the River Don Navigation at Mexborough Low Lock is ten minutes down the hill and is the obvious walk to pair with it. CAMRA's WhatPub listing records the bar as dog friendly; the bar itself does not publish a policy.

A brewery beer hall on the Canalside Industrial Estate off Cliff Street, opened in 2022 with five handpumps of guest ales, street food of chicken and burgers, and canal-side garden seating with its own moorings on the River Don Navigation. Level access with a radar-key accessible toilet and its own parking make it easy with a dog, and the towpath past Mexborough Low Lock runs straight from the door, which is the obvious walk. Live music most weekends and a Wednesday quiz mean it can get loud, so the canal-side tables are the calmer choice. CAMRA's WhatPub survey of December 2024 lists it as dog friendly with no area excluded, rather than the beer hall publishing a policy itself.

A brewery tap in a former club on Cliff Street, next door to the Gorilla beer hall and a few minutes from Mexborough station, with a main bar where the entertainment happens, a separate lounge and a games and function room. Two permanent Imperial beers are joined by four rotating guests, and the lounge is the room to aim for with a dog when there is a band or a karaoke on in the main bar. The River Don Navigation towpath below the town is the nearest walk. CAMRA's WhatPub survey of November 2023 records the tap as dog friendly with no room excluded; that is the published evidence rather than the brewery's own wording.

A locally owned local on Wath Road at the Swinton end of Mexborough, with a garden, sport on the screens and a week of pool competitions, games nights, darts and karaoke rather than any food or real ale. It is a straightforward one-bar pub, which means there is no dining room a dog has to be kept out of, and the garden takes the overflow in summer. Manvers Lake and the Trans Pennine Trail along the Dearne are a short drive west if you want a walk to pair with it. CAMRA's WhatPub survey of April 2024 lists the pub as dog friendly with no room excluded, rather than the pub publishing a policy of its own.

A community pub on Doncaster Road in Mexborough, the nearest place of its kind to the Denaby Ings end of the Dearne valley and the Trans Pennine Trail through the Don gorge. The Craft Union page for the pub lists it as a dog friendly pub and states that they are pet-friendly and welcome everyone, alongside the beer garden, pool table, dartboard and cask ale. It is a sports pub with several screens and live entertainment, so it is not a quiet corner for a nervous dog on a match night. There is a beer garden, which is the sensible place to sit with a wet dog after the Dearne valley paths.