Dog-friendly walks in Runswick Bay

A level two-mile there-and-back along the Cleveland Way from Runswick Bay's upper car park towards Staithes, looking over the remains of Port Mulgrave's 1856 iron-ore harbour. Mostly grass and earth paths with one kissing gate, and refreshments and toilets back in the village.

A gentle 5-mile circular of about two and three-quarter hours that starts along the sands, climbs a narrow path to the dismantled Whitby to Loftus railway and follows the level trackbed under stone bridges to Kettleness, returning on the Cleveland Way clifftop. Park at Bank Bottom car park at the foot of Runswick Bank, a variable charge of roughly £5.80 for four hours, and check the tide first because the opening and closing half-mile are on the beach. Runswick beach allows dogs all year and the old railway is a fine off-lead stretch between gates, but the clifftop return is unfenced and the pastures above Kettleness are grazed.