Dog-friendly walks in Hessle

Humber Bridge Country Park and Foreshore Circular

A worked-out chalk quarry on the cliff above the Humber, now a 21-hectare local nature reserve of woodland, meadow, ponds and bare white quarry faces, joined to the tidal foreshore directly beneath the north tower of the Humber Bridge. The reserve is East Riding of Yorkshire Council land, not Hull's, and the council's own page asks only that a dog is kept under close control and picked up after, so the woods and meadow trails are the nearest thing to off-lead ground within reach of Hull. The route drops through the quarry that locals call Little Switzerland, comes out on the foreshore path under the bridge deck, runs east on gravel past the Old Black Mill and climbs back up through the meadow. There is no livestock, but the foreshore itself is a separate council site with a lead rule, and the Humber tide comes in fast over soft mud.