Dog-friendly walks in Blacktoft

Blacktoft to Faxfleet on the Humber floodbank

Out of Blacktoft down Ings Lane onto the top of the Humber floodbank, then east along the bank for the best two miles of estuary walking in the East Riding, with saltmarsh and reed below you and Alkborough Flats and the mouth of the Trent across the water. The bank runs along the landward edge of the RSPB's Blacktoft Sands reserve, and this matters: the reserve itself takes no dogs at all, but the right of way on the bank outside its fence is open, so you get the same reedbed and the same marsh harriers without going in. At Weighton Lock the return turns inland on the Faxfleet lane and the field tracks back across Blacktoft Ings. It is flat, exposed and utterly quiet, with no shade and no shop.