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Dog-friendly walks in Pocklington

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

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N 880 YD 5.2 MI · OUT & BACK
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Pocklington Canal Towpath: Canal Head to the Bielby Arm

Pocklington · YO42 1NR
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5.2MILES
2:20TIME
15mCLIMB
95%OFF-ROAD
Water bowls Off-lead allowed

Flat, sheltered and almost entirely off-road, the Pocklington Canal runs nine and a half miles from Canal Head down to the River Derwent at East Cottingwith. This out-and-back takes the top end from Canal Head past Top Lock, Silburn Lock and Coates Lock to the Bielby Arm and back, which is the tree-lined, un-restored half with humpbacked bridges and no boat traffic to speak of. Most of the canal is SSSI, so keep a dog out of the reed fringe in the nesting season. The Canal and River Trust's own towpath guidance asks for a short lead around locks and bridge holes and says plainly that dogs are not to swim in the canal, which matters here because the banks are steep-sided and hard to climb out of.

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N 880 YD 5.6 MI · LOOP
SOME LIMITS

Pocklington: Chapel Hill, The Balk and Kilnwick Percy

Pocklington · YO42 2QR
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5.6MILES
2:55TIME
165mCLIMB
75%OFF-ROAD
Off-lead allowed Livestock — leads on

The steepest ground in Pocklington starts about four hundred yards from the Market Place, and this circuit takes it. From the free car park off Railway Street the route climbs The Balk out of town, up over Chapel Hill with the whole Vale of York opening out behind you, then contours the edge of the Kilnwick Percy golf course to Kilnwick Percy Hall, whose forty-seven acres of parkland, woodland walks and lake are open to anyone from dawn until dusk. The return drops south-west on field paths and green lanes above Burnby. It is chalk and clay underfoot, genuinely muddy from November to March, and part of the outward leg runs along the edge of a working golf course where a loose dog is not welcome.

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