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Dog-friendly walks in Gunnerside

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Gunnerside Gill and the Blakethwaite Lead Mines

Gunnerside · DL11 6LD
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5.5MILES
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303mCLIMB
95%OFF-ROAD
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Five and a half miles with a thousand feet of climbing, about three and a half hours, up the shattered industrial landscape of Gunnerside Gill to Bunton Hush and the ruined Blakethwaite smelt mill, returning on a high green miners' track. Start in the centre of Gunnerside village where roadside parking is usually available; the little bridge over the beck is the obvious landmark. Good ground underfoot on the old mine tracks and no awkward stiles, but the hushes are steep loose scars with real drops, and the upper gill is open access moor where dogs must be on a short lead between 1 March and 31 July for ground-nesting birds; the beck runs alongside for most of the climb, so there is water all the way.

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Gunnerside Pasture and Ivelet

Gunnerside · DL11 6LD
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4.5MILES
2:30TIME
210mCLIMB
90%OFF-ROAD
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Four and a half miles and around two and a half hours on the high pasture road west out of the village to Ivelet, dropping to the seventeenth-century packhorse bridge and coming back along the Swale and up Gunnerside Beck; the pasture road is a firm stony track, the return through the meadows is soft. Start in Gunnerside village by the bridge, where roadside parking is limited to a handful of considerate spaces and the 30 bus from Richmond and Reeth calls a few times a day. Gunnerside Beck and the Swale both give a drink and there is a shallow shingle bay above Ivelet Bridge for a swim, though the pool below the arch is deep, and sheep are on the pasture year round with the meadows cut for hay, so the lead stays on and dogs must keep to the path; expect a handful of narrow stone stiles in the valley-bottom walls that a broad dog will need help through.

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