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Dog-friendly walks in Driffield

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

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N 880 YD 4.4 MI · OUT & BACK
DOGS WELCOME

Driffield Navigation: Riverhead to Snakeholme Lock

Driffield · YO25 6PT
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4.4MILES
2:00TIME
10mCLIMB
93%OFF-ROAD
Off-lead allowed

The Driffield Navigation is the eleven-mile cut that made Driffield a market town, and the top of it is a proper canal basin at Riverhead, five minutes from the Market Place and a couple of hundred yards from the railway station. This out-and-back follows the towpath south past Whin Hill Lock and Bethells Bridge to Snakeholme Lock, with the crystal-clear chalk stream of the River Hull running alongside for much of it and hardly a gradient anywhere. It is one of the few genuinely all-weather flat walks in the Wolds and the surface is grass and mown towpath rather than stone, so it takes a boot after rain. The navigation is privately maintained by the Driffield Navigation Trust rather than the Canal and River Trust, the banks are steep and the water is deep and cold, so a dog that swims is safer on a lead near the lock chambers.

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N 440 YD 4.2 MI · LOOP
SOME LIMITS

Driffield Riverhead, the Beck and Little Driffield

Driffield · YO25 6PP
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4.2MILES
2:00TIME
45mCLIMB
80%OFF-ROAD
Off-lead allowed Livestock — leads on

Great Driffield grew round the Riverhead, the top basin of the Driffield Navigation, and this circuit walks out of it the other way to the older village that gave the town its name. From the Riverhead the route follows the clear chalk beck west past the mill sites, crosses to the churchyard of St Mary at Little Driffield where a Northumbrian king is supposed to lie, then loops north over the arable of Driffield Wold before dropping back down the beck. The water is spring-fed chalk stream, gin-clear and shallow, and it is a genuine trout fishery, so a dog crashing about in it will not be thanked. The upper field paths are cross-field and heavy after ploughing.

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