Dog-friendly walks in Askrigg

Askrigg, Mill Gill Force and Whitfield Gill Force

Three and a half miles in about two hours to two hidden waterfalls in a deep wooded ravine, on field paths and a narrow, rooty, often muddy gorge path with steps and a short scramble at Whitfield Gill. Start at St Oswald's church in Askrigg, where there is free parking on the cobbles outside the Kings Arms; the Little White Bus links Askrigg with Hawes and Leyburn. The gorge path is close to a steep drop into the beck and is no place for a dog off the lead, and there are stone squeeze stiles on the field sections that a wide dog will not fit through; the beck below the falls is shallow and cold for a drink on the way back.