Dog-friendly walks in Settle

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4 MI · LOOP

SOME LIMITS

Attermire Scar and Victoria Cave

Settle · BD24 9EJ

4MILES

2:30TIME

260mCLIMB

90%OFF-ROAD

Livestock — leads on

Four miles and around two and a half hours through the finest limestone amphitheatre in Craven, past Warrendale Knotts and the cave mouths of Victoria and Jubilee, with a long steep climb out of the town to start and rocky, slippery ground in places. Start from Settle market place; parking is pay-and-display and Settle station on the Settle-Carlisle line is five minutes away, which makes this one of the few Dales walks you can do properly by train. This is open access limestone grazing with sheep everywhere and short leads required from 1 March to 31 July for ground-nesting birds, there are ladder stiles over the walls that no dog can climb, and the cave entrances and scar edges are unfenced drops.

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7.4 MI · LOOP

SOME LIMITS

Giggleswick Scar, Feizor and Stackhouse

Settle · BD24 9AA

7.4MILES

3:45TIME

340mCLIMB

85%OFF-ROAD

Livestock — leads on

Seven and a half miles and about three and three quarter hours along the top of Giggleswick Scar, over to the hamlet of Feizor and back down the Ribble at Stackhouse, with one steep pull onto the limestone and some genuinely slippery ground where the path crosses bare rock. Start at Settle railway station on the Settle to Carlisle line, which puts the walk within reach without a car and saves the scramble for parking in the market place. Sheep are on the scar and the Feizor pastures throughout the year so the lead stays on, and there is a short and unpleasant stretch beside the A65 at Buck Haw Brow where traffic comes fast round a bend; the Ribble at Stackhouse is the payoff, with easy shingle access for a swim, but expect several tight limestone squeeze stiles above Feizor that a broad dog will have to be lifted through.

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5.4 MI · LOOP

SOME LIMITS

Langcliffe, Stainforth and Catrigg Force

Settle · BD24 9NJ

5.4MILES

3:00TIME

280mCLIMB

85%OFF-ROAD

Livestock — leads on

Five and a half miles and around three hours: the Ribble Way north through riverside meadows to the packhorse bridge at Stainforth, then the steep stony climb of Goat Scar Lane to Catrigg Force, and a high return across Winskill with the whole of Ribblesdale below. Start at Langcliffe village green a mile north of Settle, where there is limited roadside parking and a bus from Settle station; the alternative is the pay-and-display car park in Stainforth, which fills early at weekends. The beck at Catrigg and the Ribble both give a drink and there is a safe shallow paddle at Stainforth Bridge, but sheep graze the whole route so keep the dog on the lead, the viewing path at the top of the fall runs along an unprotected lip, and the meadow section is crossed by a run of narrow stone squeeze stiles that a Labrador simply will not fit through.

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5 MI · LOOP

SOME LIMITS

Scaleber Force from Settle

Settle · BD24 9EJ

5MILES

2:45TIME

270mCLIMB

75%OFF-ROAD

Livestock — leads on

Five miles and about two and three quarter hours, climbing steadily out of town on Mitchell Lane and High Hill Lane to a forty-foot waterfall hidden in a limestone gorge, then coming back on the stony Settle Loop track with Ingleborough filling the view. It starts in Settle market place, and Settle railway station on the Settle to Carlisle line is a four-minute walk away, so the whole thing is doable by train from Leeds. The walled lanes and the Loop are gated rather than stiled, which is a rare mercy for a big dog in this corner of the Dales, and Stockdale Beck gives a good drink; sheep graze every field on the route so the lead stays on, and the last few yards down into Scaleber Wood are a slippery scramble on wet limestone above a deep pool, best done without a dog attached to your wrist.

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5.3 MI · LOOP

SOME LIMITS

Settle to Stainforth Force on the Ribble Way

Settle · BD24 9EJ

5.3MILES

2:30TIME

110mCLIMB

85%OFF-ROAD

Livestock — leads on

Five and a quarter miles round in about two and a half hours, following the Ribble Way north out of Settle through riverside meadows to the limestone shelves of Stainforth Force and its seventeenth-century packhorse bridge, returning by the lane and field paths on the far side. Nearly flat and easy going apart from mud after rain; start at Settle market place and use the pay-and-display car parks, or take the train and walk from the station. The pool below Stainforth Force is the best-known dog swim in Ribblesdale with a shallow shelf to get in and out, though the current is strong when the river is up; the meadows carry sheep and cattle, and the Ribble Way has a number of narrow stone stiles that will stop a large dog.

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