Dog-friendly stays in Ravenglass

A small glamping site of five-metre canvas bell tents pitched in a wooded corner of the seventy-seven acre Muncaster gardens, each sleeping up to four. Two well-behaved dogs are welcome for an additional charge, but the estate is surrounded by working farmland and asks for dogs on a lead at all times on site. Staying here puts the whole garden and the terrace walk on the doorstep, though dogs are still barred from the castle state rooms and the Hawk and Owl Centre. Ravenglass, the estuary and the railway terminus are a mile down the hill.

Self-catering accommodation in the old stable block at Muncaster Castle, a mile above Ravenglass: nine en-suite bedrooms, a bunk room and bell tents sharing a communal kitchen, dining room and lounge. Dogs cost ten pounds each per night, up to two per room, and must be on a lead in all the public areas and never left alone in the bedroom. Staying here does not by itself get a dog into the gardens, which need a dog ticket bought on arrival, and dogs are not allowed in the castle state rooms or the Hawk and Owl Centre at all. The seventy acres of woodland garden and the Esk estuary path are on the doorstep.

Three self-catering properties owned by the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway and standing on the station itself: two restored Pullman coaches, the Elmira and the Maid of Kent, each sleeping four, and Hilton Cottage on platform one, the old railway manager's house, sleeping six. All three take dogs, up to two, at twenty-five pounds a dog for a short stay or forty pounds for a week or more. Staying here does not include travel, so a dog still needs its own five-pound ticket to ride up the valley. The estuary, the Roman bath house and Muncaster woods are all within a mile on foot.

A twenty-two bedroom hotel on Ravenglass main street, owned by the Pennington family of Muncaster and a two-minute walk from both the tidal estuary and the terminus of the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway. Most rooms can be arranged as dog-friendly on request for ten pounds per dog per night, and the hotel keeps a separate morning room, seating sixteen, so that guests with dogs can eat with them rather than leave them upstairs. Reserving that room in advance is advised because it is small. The estuary path and the Muncaster woods start from the village, so the walking is genuinely on the doorstep.