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Dog-friendly walks in Staithes

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Staithes and Port Mulgrave clifftop circular

Staithes · TS13 5AD
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4.2MILES
1:55TIME
118mCLIMB
65%OFF-ROAD
Livestock — leads on

A 4.2-mile circular of about two hours that climbs hard out of Staithes harbour onto the Cleveland Way, runs a mile along unfenced clifftop to Port Mulgrave, then loops back over fields, down wooden steps into woodland and through Dalehouse. Park in the pay-and-display car park at the top of Staithes Lane, since the old village is barred to cars, and walk down the cobbled alleys past the Cod and Lobster to start. The cliff path is unfenced with a sheer drop to the scars below and the return crosses grazed fields with gates, so this is a lead-on walk throughout, though the beck at Dalehouse and the harbour give a drink at either end.

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Staithes to Runswick Bay clifftop circular

Staithes · TS13 5AD
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7.6MILES
3:25TIME
220mCLIMB
70%OFF-ROAD
Off-lead allowed Livestock — leads on

A 7.6-mile circular with 220 metres of climbing, roughly three and a half hours, out along the Cleveland Way past Old Nab and Port Mulgrave to the steps at Rosedale Wyke and down into Runswick Bay, then back inland by field paths through Hinderwell and Dalehouse. Start from the car park at the top of Staithes Lane; the Arriva X4 links Staithes, Hinderwell and Runswick Bay if you would rather walk it one way and ride back. Both beaches take dogs all year and there is genuine off-lead running on the inland return, but the clifftop is unfenced and undercut in places and the fields carry sheep, so lead up for the whole coastal half.

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Staithes, Cowbar and Boulby Cliff

Staithes · TS13 5AD
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6MILES
3:15TIME
300mCLIMB
85%OFF-ROAD
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Six miles and around three and a quarter hours over the highest cliff on England's east coast, 300 metres of climbing with one long unrelenting pull from Cowbar to the 203-metre summit and a field-path return past the trig point. Start at the Staithes visitor car park at the top of the bank, since the village itself is closed to cars, and the number 5 bus from Whitby stops beside it. The clifftop fields are grazed and the path runs close to a sheer and unfenced 200-metre drop for over a mile, so this is a lead walk for its whole seaward half, though the return over the tops is open ground with a beck to drink from.

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Staithes, Dalehouse and Roxby Beck

Staithes · TS13 5EA
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4.6MILES
2:25TIME
190mCLIMB
85%OFF-ROAD
Livestock — leads on

An inland 4.6-mile circular of about two and a half hours up the wooded valley of Roxby Beck and back over the fields, 190 metres of climbing on paths that are properly boggy from October to April and rarely walked in winter. Start at Dalehouse, a mile inland from Staithes, where there is limited free roadside parking by the bridge and the number 5 bus stops on the main road above. The beck is shallow, clean and lined with wild garlic in spring, and the wooded stretches are sheltered off-lead ground, but there are half a dozen stiles, some of them awkward, and sheep on almost every field on the return.

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