Dog-friendly walks in Grassington

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Conistone Dib and Lea Green from Grassington

Grassington · BD23 5LB

8.5MILES

4:30TIME

350mCLIMB

90%OFF-ROAD

Livestock — leads on

Eight and a half miles and about four and a half hours along the Dales Way terrace above Wharfedale to the rock knuckle of Conistone Pie, then down the narrow limestone slot of Conistone Dib, which needs a short scramble on polished rock, and back by the river past Ghaistrill's Strid. Start at the National Park Centre in Grassington, where the car park is large and the 72 bus from Skipton pulls in alongside. Lea Green is unfenced ancient pasture full of sheep and the riverside meadows are grazed too, so keep the dog on the lead; the Wharfe gives a good drink and a safe paddle at Ghaistrill's Strid, though the Strid itself is deep and fast and no place for a swim, and the wall crossings on Lea Green are narrow stone squeeze stiles that a broad dog will not get through, while the Dib needs a dog that can be lifted down a short polished-rock scramble.

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2.4 MI · LOOP

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Grass Wood Nature Reserve

Grassington · BD23 5FA

2.4MILES

1:15TIME

90mCLIMB

100%OFF-ROAD

One of the largest broadleaved woodlands in the Dales, an ash wood on limestone terraces a mile up the lane from Grassington. Dogs are welcome but must be on a lead throughout this Yorkshire Wildlife Trust reserve, which shelters rare woodland flowers. Public footpaths and a well-surfaced access track, though steep and rocky in places and slippery when wet.

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Grassington Moor Lead Mines from Yarnbury

Grassington · BD23 5LB

5.5MILES

3:00TIME

280mCLIMB

90%OFF-ROAD

Livestock — leads on

Five and a half miles and about three hours on the waymarked lead mining trail above the village, mostly on firm stone tracks with a boggy dip or two, past the Cupola smelt mill chimney, Beevers engine shaft and the little Coalgrovebeck reservoir. Walk up Moor Lane from Grassington National Park Centre rather than driving to Yarnbury, where the parking is a handful of spaces at a road end and blocks the farm turning when it overflows. This is a working grouse moor with sheep on it, so the dog stays on the lead the whole way and especially between March and July; the real hazard is the mining ground itself, with capped and uncapped shafts, open flues and steep-sided reservoirs a few feet off the path, and the only water is the beck below the smelt mill.

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6.5 MI · LOOP

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Grassington to Burnsall along the Wharfe

Grassington · BD23 5LB

6.5MILES

3:00TIME

190mCLIMB

85%OFF-ROAD

Livestock — leads on

Six and a half miles and about three hours, down the Dales Way beside the Wharfe past Linton Falls and the 1885 Hebden suspension bridge to Burnsall, returning on the far bank and the lane through Hebden village. The going is easy riverside meadow with a few short pulls, though it floods in winter; start from the National Park Centre car park in Grassington, where the Dales Bus from Ilkley and Skipton stops. Sheep graze almost every field and there are stone stiles and step stiles the length of the route, most with a dog hole but a few without; the Wharfe gives shallow gravel entries near Burnsall for a swim, but Loup Scar is a rock gorge with a deep fast channel and no way out.

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Linton Falls and Linton village

Grassington · BD23 5LB

3.1MILES

1:30TIME

85mCLIMB

80%OFF-ROAD

Livestock — leads on

Three level miles in an hour and a half from Grassington down Sedber Lane to the roaring limestone steps of Linton Falls, on to Linton's green and its packhorse bridge, and back by field paths. The going is easy and mostly surfaced or grassy, though the falls footbridge steps are slippery in wet weather; park at the National Park Centre in Grassington, where the Dales Bus from Skipton and Ilkley calls. A good short outing for a stiff old dog with almost no climbing, and the Wharfe above the falls has quiet shallows for a drink, but the falls themselves are a violent chute with no exit and the field paths carry sheep and a handful of stone stiles.

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Threshfield Quarry and Skirethorns

Grassington · BD23 5EL

3.2MILES

1:40TIME

110mCLIMB

85%OFF-ROAD

Off-lead allowed

Three miles and a little over an hour and a half round a worked-out limestone quarry that has gone back to nature, with turquoise pools, old kilns and a rubble waterfall that only runs after heavy rain; the tracks are firm and it stays walkable in winter when the river meadows are under water. Park on Skirethorns Lane on the western edge of Threshfield, a short walk from Grassington and its bus links. This is one of the few places round Grassington with no sheep in it, so a steady dog can be off the lead on the quarry floor, but the pools are the catch - far deeper than they look, bitterly cold and rimmed with loose scree - and the linking field paths back towards Skirethorns are grazed and carry two narrow wall stiles that a big dog will need help with.

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