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Dog-friendly walks in Sandsend

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Sandsend Ness, the alum quarries and the railway tunnels

Sandsend · YO21 3SU
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4.4MILES
1:55TIME
110mCLIMB
85%OFF-ROAD
Off-lead allowed

An easy 4.4-mile circular of just under two hours along the old Whitby to Loftus trackbed past Sandsend Ness to the Deep Grove alum quarries and the bricked-up tunnel mouths, returning over the fields above the shore. Park at the East Row or Sandsend Ness pay-and-display car parks, or take the 4 or X4 bus from Whitby, which stops beside the beck. The trackbed is wide, level and good for off-lead running, but the central Sandsend beach is closed to dogs in summer and the cliff above the quarries is soft and slipping, so keep to the path there.

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Sandsend to Lythe and back down the bank

Sandsend · YO21 3SR
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3.4MILES
1:50TIME
165mCLIMB
70%OFF-ROAD
Livestock — leads on

A short but steep 3.4-mile circular of about two hours climbing 165 metres up the Cleveland Way to Lythe church on its shoulder above the sea, then dropping back to the beck by field path and the old bank road. Start at the Sandsend main car park by the beck, pay-and-display and often full by ten in summer, with the 4 and X4 buses from Whitby stopping at the same spot. The views back over the whole bay are the point, there is water in East Row Beck at both ends, but the climb crosses grazed fields with stiles, Lythe Bank is a fast and narrow road, and the central Sandsend beach is closed to dogs in summer.

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Sandsend to Whitby beach walk

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3MILES
95%OFF-ROAD

An easy three-mile stroll along the sands from Sandsend car park towards Whitby's pier, with the cliffs at your back the whole way. Mind the tide, which comes in quickly near the Sandsend cliff end.

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Sandsend, Mulgrave Woods and the old castle

Sandsend · YO21 3SU
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4MILES
2:00TIME
160mCLIMB
85%OFF-ROAD

Four miles and about two hours on broad estate carriage drives through one of the finest beech and oak woods on the coast, out to the ruined thirteenth-century castle on its ridge and back down the other side of the valley, with 160 metres of easy climbing. Start at the East Row car park in Sandsend, a few minutes from the woodland gate, with the 4 and X4 buses from Whitby stopping beside the beck. The tracks are wide and dry and the becks run all year, but access is by the estate's permission on set days only and dogs must be on the lead throughout the woods, where there is a shoot and roe deer.

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