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Dog-friendly walks in Penrith

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

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Brougham Castle and Brougham Hall from Penrith

Penrith
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5.7MILES
2:25TIME
80mCLIMB
80%OFF-ROAD
Livestock — leads on Water bowls Off-lead allowed

Five and three quarter miles and about two and a half hours on almost flat ground, out of Penrith along the Eamont to the red sandstone keep of Brougham Castle and back by Brougham Hall's craft yards. It starts in Penrith town centre, ten minutes from the station on the West Coast main line, and the town's Sandgate and Bluebell Lane car parks are paid but inexpensive. The riverside path is level, shaded and gives constant water access, and dogs are welcome in the outer grounds of Brougham Hall and in its courtyard cafes; the field paths between are grazed by cattle in summer, there are two narrow squeeze stiles, and a quarter mile of the return uses the verge of a busy lane.

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Penrith Beacon and Beacon Hill

Penrith
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2.7MILES
1:15TIME
100mCLIMB
92%OFF-ROAD
Off-lead allowed Livestock — leads on

Two and three quarter miles and an hour and a quarter, a hundred metres of climb through the beech plantation to the little pyramid-roofed beacon tower above the town, with the north Pennines on one side and the Lakeland fells on the other. It starts at the Cold Springs community nature reserve on Beacon Edge, where there is free roadside parking for about a dozen cars; from the town centre it is a fifteen-minute walk uphill instead. Most of the route is inside enclosed woodland where a dog can be off the lead, and the reserve at the bottom has open grassland, but the woods are shared with local dog walkers and the summit clearing gives out onto grazed fields - the lead goes on at the top gate.

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