Dog-friendly walks in Hull

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Alexandra Dock and the Holderness Drain

Hull · HU9 2DT

2.5MILES

1:15TIME

16mCLIMB

65%OFF-ROAD

Off-lead allowed

A working-docks walk rather than a pretty one, and the better for it: Hull City Council's signposted circuit leaves St John's Church on Rosmead Street, crosses the park with its playground and exercise zone, and takes the old Withernsea branch line cycleway to the blue bridge over the railway into the dock estate. From there it follows the Holderness Drain down to Hedon Road, past the Alexandra Dock gatehouse and the restored hundred-ton steam crane that Associated British Ports keeps on the quay, with a short optional spur out to the Humber bank or into Hedon Road Cemetery, before returning past Hull Prison and up Southcoates Lane. It is Hull City Council land and highway, and Hull has no dog control Public Spaces Protection Order of any kind, so the only instruction on the council's route page is to pick up after your dog. Hedon Road is a dual carriageway with heavy port traffic and the drain bank is unfenced.

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2.1 MI · LOOP

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Cottingham Branchline and Priory Road Circuit

Hull · HU5 4HP

2.1MILES

1:00TIME

12mCLIMB

80%OFF-ROAD

Off-lead allowed

A signposted Hull City Council route that follows the Setting Dyke drain west from National Avenue, then climbs a footbridge over the Hull to Cottingham and Scarborough branch line to reach Priory Drive and the tree-lined track and cycleway that runs behind the Shropshire Close and Warwickshire Close estates. It ducks under the County Road North flyover and comes back down the drain, so the whole thing is a green corridor squeezed between the railway and the western suburbs. It is Hull City Council land and highway, not East Riding, and the city has no dog control Public Spaces Protection Order at all; the council's own route notes ask only that you pick up after your dog. There are gates, chicanes and steps at the bridge, and the drain-side sections are rough and boggy after rain.

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2.2 MI · LOOP

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Engine Drain, Kingswood

Hull · HU7 3DA

2.2MILES

1:00TIME

6mCLIMB

65%OFF-ROAD

Off-lead allowed

Kingswood was built on drained carrland in the 1990s and 2000s, and the Engine Drain that made the building possible now runs through it as a tree-lined trail, which is the one properly green thing in a district otherwise made of retail sheds and new housing. Hull City Council's signposted circuit starts at the Kingswood Retail Park bus interchange by Asda, picks the drain up at the zebra crossing and follows it past the playground and Kingswood Parks Primary School to the Village Green shops, returning by Runnymede Avenue, Richmond Way, Barnes Way, Ashcombe Road and Althorp Road. It is all Hull City Council land and highway, and Hull has no dog control Public Spaces Protection Order at all, so the council's own guidance for the route asks only that you pick up after your dog. It is flat and hard-surfaced almost throughout, which makes it a good winter option, but there are several busy estate-road crossings.

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1.7 MI · LOOP

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Foredyke Stream and Dunscombe Park

Hull · HU8 8HW

1.7MILES

50mTIME

6mCLIMB

85%OFF-ROAD

Off-lead allowed

Foredyke Stream is one of the old drains that once carried water off east Hull into the River Hull, and the segregated path along it from Chamberlain Road is a quiet green line through streets that have very little other green in them. The route runs north past the allotments and a wooded stretch, crosses the ancient meadow at Rockford Fields, joins the Hornsea Rail Trail and Trans Pennine Trail south, then comes back through Dunscombe Park. Rockford Fields has been grazed or mown since monastic days and carries a genuinely rich mix of grasses and wildflowers, including the uncommon crow garlic. This is Hull City Council land, and Hull has no dog control Public Spaces Protection Order, so the only instruction on the council's own route page is to pick up after your dog.

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2.1 MI · LOOP

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Hull Marina and the Old Town Waterfront Circuit

Hull · HU1 1UF

2.1MILES

1:00TIME

12mCLIMB

50%OFF-ROAD

Off-lead allowed

A flat two miles of quayside, cobbles and river that takes in most of what Hull is known for: the yacht basin in the old Humber and Railway Docks, the fruit-market warehouses on Humber Street, Victoria Pier where the New Holland ferry used to leave, the tidal surge barrier and the Scale Lane swing bridge over the River Hull. It is all Hull City Council highway and public realm, and the city has no dog control order of any kind, so this is one of the few English city centres where nothing on a walk like this is closed to a dog. The route runs the marina pontoons, follows the Humber promenade east past The Deep, turns up the River Hull to Scale Lane, then comes back through the Old Town on High Street, Queen's Gardens and Princes Quay. The pontoons and the swing bridge deck are steel and slippery in the wet, and the Humber railings have gaps a small dog can go through.

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1.9 MI · LOOP

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Rockford Fields Meadow Circuit

Hull · HU8 0EY

1.9MILES

55mTIME

7mCLIMB

90%OFF-ROAD

Off-lead allowed

Rockford Fields is a genuine wild hay meadow left over from the monastic farming of the Sutton carrs, and it survives inside east Hull because the old Hull to Hornsea railway walled it off on one side and the Foredyke Stream on the other. Hull City Council's signposted circuit starts at the Sutton Road underpass on the rail trail, drops onto the meadow, follows the Foredyke Stream track past the allotments and a strip of young woodland, and comes back over Sutton Trod, the raised path that carried villagers into town before the roads were made up. It is Hull City Council land, and Hull, a unitary authority quite separate from East Riding, has no dog control Public Spaces Protection Order; the council's own route notes ask only that you pick up after your dog. The meadow is left uncut until late summer for the wildflowers, so the grass is chest-high on a spaniel from June.

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2.1 MI · LOOP

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Setting Dyke and Bricknell Circuit

Hull · HU5 4HP

2.1MILES

1:00TIME

8mCLIMB

75%OFF-ROAD

Off-lead allowed

Setting Dyke is a drain cut as part of a 1172 scheme to take the water off the Newlands carrs, and Hull City Council has turned its grassed bank into one of the city's signposted walking routes. The walk heads west from National Avenue along the north side of the drain, crosses County Road North, passes Bricknell Playing Fields and slips into the strip of woodland by the Hull to Scarborough railway before coming back through Dent Road, Bishop Alcock Road and Bricknell Avenue. This is Hull City Council land and highway throughout, and Hull is a unitary authority with no dog control Public Spaces Protection Order, so the council's own route guidance asks only that you pick up after your dog. County Road North is a genuinely busy crossing and the drain bank is boggy and rutted in winter.

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2.3 MI · LOOP

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Sutton Trod and Rockford Fields

Hull · HU7 4TL

2.3MILES

1:05TIME

11mCLIMB

75%OFF-ROAD

Off-lead allowed

The Trod is the old raised footpath that carried people between Sutton village and Hull across the carrs, and Hull City Council's signposted route uses it to link St James's Church on Church Street to the wildflower meadow at Rockford Fields. It leaves the village past The Ship Inn, works through Hornbeams Close and Tweendykes Road, crosses the very busy Sutton Road and drops through Glenwood Close onto the meadow, then comes home along the Hornsea Rail Trail and Trans Pennine Trail past the Barbara Robson Playing Field. This is Hull City Council, a unitary authority with no dog control Public Spaces Protection Order of any kind, and the council's route notes ask only that you pick up after your dog. Sutton Road is fast and there is a signalled crossing about 340 yards away if the direct crossing looks unwise.

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2.6 MI · OUT & BACK

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Victoria Dock and the Humber Shoreline

Hull · HU9 1PZ

2.6MILES

1:15TIME

10mCLIMB

80%OFF-ROAD

Off-lead allowed

Victoria Dock Village was built in the 1990s on the filled-in timber dock east of the River Hull, and the best thing about it is the shoreline walkway that runs the whole way along its Humber frontage and on west to Sammy's Point and The Deep. There is a real beach of sand, shingle and brick rubble below the wall at the eastern end, reachable by steps, and it is one of very few places in the city where a dog can get into open water. This is Hull City Council, a unitary authority with no dog control Public Spaces Protection Order, so nothing here is closed to dogs at any time of year. The Humber has one of the largest tidal ranges in Britain and a savage ebb current, and the shoreline below the wall covers completely on a big spring tide.

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1.5 MI · LOOP

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Bude Park and the Kingswood Edge

Hull · HU7 4HF

1.5MILES

45mTIME

5mCLIMB

95%OFF-ROAD

Off-lead allowed

Hull City Council calls Bude Park one of the largest parks in the city, and it is the open ground that separates the older Bransholme estates from the newer Kingswood development, entered from Bude Road or from Ennerdale. It is mostly wide mown grass and sports pitches rather than Victorian planting, which makes it an unusually good place to throw a ball, and there is a multi-use games area, an outdoor gym and a seasonal water play area at the Ennerdale end. Hull is a unitary authority separate from East Riding and has no dog control Public Spaces Protection Order, so the only published dog rule here is the one covering the enclosed play areas. The park is open on all sides to Bude Road and Ennerdale, both of which carry fast traffic.

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1.8 MI · LOOP

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Costello Playing Fields and Peter Pan Park

Hull · HU4 6XQ

1.8MILES

50mTIME

5mCLIMB

85%OFF-ROAD

Off-lead allowed

Costello Playing Fields on Anlaby Park Road North is where the Hull parkrun is held on a Saturday morning, and a short link along Pickering Road joins it to the smaller Peter Pan Park with its nature pond and island. Between them they give a couple of miles of flat mown grass and made-up path on the western edge of the city, with four floodlit tennis courts and a stand of mature limes along the Anlaby Park Road boundary. This is Hull City Council land, and the city has no dog control Public Spaces Protection Order of any kind; the council's only published dog rule for the site is the play area exclusion. On Saturday and Sunday mornings the parkrun and the junior races make this a lead-only walk in practice, and the pitches are chewed up and boggy from November.

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2 MI · LOOP

SOME LIMITS

East Park Circuit

Hull · HU8 8JU

2MILES

55mTIME

8mCLIMB

95%OFF-ROAD

Off-lead allowed Livestock — leads on

At 130 acres this is Hull's largest park and the city's default dog walk, an 1887 Victorian layout off Holderness Road with the Ferens boating lake at its heart, a model yacht pond, the Khyber Pass rock folly and its waterfall, and long tarmac carriage drives that stay walkable in winter. This is Hull City Council land, a unitary authority entirely separate from East Riding, and Hull's rules are its own. The whole park is open to dogs except the enclosed children's play area and splash pad, where the council's page says only assistance dogs are allowed; the free Animal Education Centre with its farm and exotic stock is a further reason to have a lead to hand. The park is unfenced from the surrounding streets, gates open at 8am and it closes at dusk on a sliding seasonal timetable.

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2 MI · LOOP

SOME LIMITS

Hull · HU3 6JU

1.4MILES

40mTIME

5mCLIMB

95%OFF-ROAD

Off-lead allowed

Opened in 1885 between Walton Street and Anlaby Road, West Park is the green setting for the MKM Stadium and for Hull Fair, which takes over the Walton Street side for a week every October. Away from the stadium it is a straightforward Victorian park of mature limes, wide lawns, a bowling green, an aviary and a lake, with a made-up path circuit that stays walkable through the winter. It is Hull City Council land, and the council closes only the play area to dogs; the city has no dog control Public Spaces Protection Order at all. Match days and fair week both make this a lead-only park in practice, and the aviary birds are worth steering a keen dog past.

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