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Dog-friendly walks in Bolsover

Boots on. These are the Bolsover walks worth the drive, with lead rules and livestock warnings marked.

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Bolsover Castle to Sutton Scarsdale

Bolsover · S44 6PR
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6.8MILES
3:15TIME
200mCLIMB
88%OFF-ROAD
Livestock — leads on

Eleven kilometres, just under seven miles, and two and a half to three hours between two great ruined houses, up and down through fields with steep sections and stiles to climb. Start at Bolsover Castle, where the English Heritage car park is the only sensible parking and the cafe and toilets are the only facilities on the route. English Heritage warns that livestock may be grazing along the way, so a lead is needed throughout; dogs on leads are welcome in the castle grounds but not in the Little Castle, Riding Range or Cavalier displays, and the route is not suitable for pushchairs or a dog that cannot manage stiles.

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Hardwick parkland and Lady Spencer's Wood

Bolsover · S44 5QJ
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4.2MILES
2:10TIME
140mCLIMB
96%OFF-ROAD
Livestock — leads on Water bowls

Four and a quarter miles and a little over two hours round the parkland below Bess of Hardwick's two halls, on estate tracks and grass with one climb back up to the ridge. Start from the main National Trust car park at Hardwick, three miles south-west of Bolsover, free to members and paid otherwise, with the ponds and Lady Spencer's Wood signed from it. Hardwick is a working farm with rare-breed longhorn cattle and sheep so dogs must be on a lead at all times across the estate, dogs on leads are welcome in the stableyard but not the formal gardens, and there are water bowls and dog bins around the estate.

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