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Dog-friendly walks in Northallerton

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

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Applegarth and Willow Beck

Northallerton · DL7 8LH
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75%OFF-ROAD

Green corridor tucked directly behind Northallerton High Street, where the Applegarth's grass and surfaced paths follow Willow Beck, one of several becks that thread through the town towards the River Wiske. A short, level town walk of a mile or so, ideal for an older dog or a quick leg-stretch between shops. No stock to worry about, though the beck banks can be muddy after rain.

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Bullamoor, Stank Hall and Kirby Sigston

Northallerton · DL6 3QP
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Four miles of road and track walking with three grass fields to cross, about an hour and three quarters; because the fields are grass rather than plough it stays firm, which makes it one of the best wet-weather routes near Northallerton. Start from the Fox and Hounds car park at Bullamoor, where walkers are welcome to park if they call in for a coffee afterwards, or walk out from the town in twenty minutes. Expect a single-strand electric fence to step over near Stank Hall, cattle in the fields, and a stretch of lane with fast blind bends where a lead is essential.

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Northallerton and Dibdale

Northallerton · DL6 1EP
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2:30TIME
81mCLIMB
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Five miles from the edge of Northallerton into the small pastoral valley of Dibdale and up to the hilltop hamlet of Bullamoor, about two and a half hours with three stiles, ten gates and the only real inclines within reach of the town. Start at the Crosby Road car park; the railway station is a ten-minute walk and the Fox and Hounds at Bullamoor sits roughly halfway round. Dibdale Beck and the footbridge in Droppingwell Wood give water and shade and the wood is a decent off-lead stretch, but the fields either side are grazed and the lane into Bullamoor carries farm traffic.

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Bishop's Palace and North End loop

Northallerton · DL7 8AA
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1:05TIME
10mCLIMB
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Two and a half miles round the northern edge of the town past the earthworks of the medieval Bishop of Durham's palace, an hour, with ten metres of ascent in the whole circuit and made-up paths for most of it. Start at the top of the High Street by North End, where there is short-stay parking, and Northallerton station is ten minutes' walk away on the East Coast line, which makes this one of the easiest good walks in the county to reach by train. The old stone bridge over the beck is the halfway point and the beck itself gives a dog a drink; there is no livestock on the loop and dogs can be off lead on the enclosed sections, but the High Street end demands a lead and the low field beside the palace site is boggy from November through to March.

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Northallerton to Brompton by the Cod Beck

Northallerton · DL6 2QA
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2:00TIME
30mCLIMB
85%OFF-ROAD
Off-lead allowed Livestock — leads on

Four and a half miles north to the linen-weaving village of Brompton along the Cod Beck and back by field paths, two hours, flat all the way with kissing gates rather than stiles and one stretch of made-up track. Start at the Applegarth car park behind the High Street, which is pay and display but cheap, and Brompton has a good village pub and a bus back into town if the legs have had enough. The beck-side stretch is enclosed and safe for a dog off lead, but the return fields carry sheep and cattle so leads go on there and calves in spring deserve real caution; the Cod Beck is shallow, gravel-bottomed and easy for a dog to get in and out of, and the beck path drains well enough to stay walkable through most of the winter.

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Northallerton to Yafforth and the Wiske

Northallerton · DL7 8UJ
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2:55TIME
40mCLIMB
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Six and a half miles west across the flat Wiske country to the hamlet of Yafforth and back, three hours, on field paths and quiet lanes with a couple of plank bridges over drains and one stile. Start from the town centre near the parish church and head out through Romanby; Northallerton station is fifteen minutes from the start and the 73 bus runs to the villages on this side of town. Cattle and sheep are on the riverside pastures for most of the year and calves make a herd genuinely dangerous, so this is a lead-on walk across the grazed ground; the Wiske is a slow muddy river, fine for a drink but with steep clay banks a small dog will struggle to climb out of, and the low ground here holds water badly and is best left alone from December to February.

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