Dog-friendly The White Peak

Unreconstructed village pub on Church Street with an open fire in winter and boules in the garden in summer. Robinsons list it as dog friendly, and it is the quieter of the two Ashford pubs. A useful halt on the Monsal Trail loop from Bakewell.

Stone inn on Hartington's market place, minutes from the walk down into Beresford Dale. The pub is unusually clear about it: all dogs are welcome in all areas, bedrooms included, and there are water bowls, snacks and dog beds laid on. Three en-suite rooms upstairs, so book early in summer.

Handsomely reopened village inn a minute from the Sheepwash Bridge over the Wye. Well-behaved dogs are welcome in the bar and the outdoor seating, with water bowls always out, but the nine bedrooms are dog-free. Book a bar table rather than the restaurant if the dog is with you.

The highest pub in Derbyshire at 1,300 feet, on the Eyam Edge ridge with five counties visible on a clear day. Dogs are welcome in the outdoor areas only: inside is assistance dogs alone, which the pub states plainly. The view from the benches is the point, so this is a fair-weather stop.

Proper village pub on the green at Monyash, at the top of Lathkill Dale. Dogs are welcome in the bars and the garden, but not in the formal dining room, and the full menu is served in the dog-friendly parts anyway. There is a water bowl on the pavement out front year-round and more scattered round the garden in summer.

Big stone pub on Castle Street with a walled beer garden that catches the afternoon sun. Greene King lists it as dog friendly, and it is the easiest place in town to get a table outside with a dog and a plate of food. Rooms are available upstairs, but the dog policy for bedrooms is not published, so ask when booking.

Old Midland Railway station a mile north of Bakewell, now a cafe, bookshop and the main cycle hire for the Monsal Trail. The cafe says dogs are always welcome, and the trailside terrace is the sensible spot when the trail is busy with bikes. There is accommodation on site, though the bedroom dog policy is not published.

Long-standing cafe at the Castleton crossroads, first stop for most people off Mam Tor or Cavedale. It calls itself a dog-friendly cafe outright, which in Castleton is more useful than it sounds. The holiday let the same owners run does not take pets, so keep the two separate in your planning.

Five and a half miles and about three hours over the limestone plateau to the best-preserved lead mine in the Peak, returning through Great Shacklow Wood. Start at the roadside spaces by Sheepwash Bridge in Ashford-in-the-Water, which take a dozen cars and no more, so an early arrival or a walk out from Bakewell is wise. This is walled sheep pasture the whole way with squeeze stiles a broad-chested dog will need lifting through, the Magpie Mine site has open shafts fenced but unroofed and no dog should be loose there, and the only reliable water is the Wye at the end of the wood.

Two and a half easy miles beside the Wye, an hour at most, on level gravel paths and a short stretch of pavement through the town. Start from the Bakewell Recreation Ground car park by the bridge, which is pay-and-display and the best bet in a town where parking is scarce on market Mondays. The river is slow and shallow at the weir and dogs swim there constantly, the packhorse crossing at Holme Bridge is a quiet spot to dry off, and only the last few hundred yards along Buxton Road need a lead for traffic.

Just under seven miles and about three and a half hours, climbing through Manners Wood and over Ball Cross before dropping into Chatsworth park and returning across Calton Pastures. Start at the Bakewell Recreation Ground car park; if you would rather halve the climbing, park at Chatsworth itself and walk it the other way round. Chatsworth requires dogs on a lead everywhere in the park and garden because of the deer and grazing sheep, dogs are barred from the farmyard and playground though there are tie-up posts outside, and there are drinking stations at the stables courtyard.

Six miles and a little over three hours down the Dove through Beresford Dale and Wolfscote Dale, returning over the tops by Biggin Dale or the lane to Hartington. Start from the pay-and-display car park off Hall Bank in Hartington, a couple of minutes from the duck pond and usually with space outside bank holidays. The National Trust owns much of the dale and asks for dogs on leads all year where stock graze and in the nature reserve sections, the Dove gives clean drinking and shallow paddling the whole way, and the stepping stones and narrow riverside ledges are slippery in the wet.

Five and a half miles and about three hours linking two of the clearest rivers in England, with only one real climb out of Bradford Dale and back down to Alport. Park on Alport Lane or Church Street in Youlgreave, both free but tight; there is no car park in the village at all. The dales are part of the Derbyshire Dales National Nature Reserve where livestock graze large areas and dogs are asked to be on the lead, the shallow pools in Bradford Dale are the best dog swimming in the White Peak, and there are stone stiles that a big dog will need help over.

Six miles and three and a quarter hours, climbing the old coffin road to Hollins Cross on the Great Ridge then dropping to Hope and returning along the Peakshole Water. The Castleton visitor centre car park is the start and the walk can be split by the Hope Valley train, which takes dogs free between Hope and Hathersage. Sheep graze the ridge and the valley fields, so a two-metre fixed lead is needed near stock and from 1 March to 31 July on the access land, but the Peakshole Water beside the last mile is shallow, clean and made for a hot dog.

Lodge and glamping park in an old quarry off the A515, with the Tissington Trail passing the gate. Pet-friendly lodges are part of the standard offer, several with hot tubs, and there is a cafe in the old stables. The trail means you can walk for hours from the door without meeting a road.

Seventeenth-century hotel facing the duck pond, named for the angling poet who fished the Dove with Izaak Walton. Only two of its seventeen bedrooms take dogs, so say you are bringing one at the time of booking rather than on arrival. A good base for the Tissington Trail and the head of Dovedale.

Jacobean manor turned hostel on the edge of the village, with bell tents and Landpods in the grounds. Dogs cannot stay in the hostel bedrooms, only in the camping and cabin accommodation, at £10 per dog per night payable on arrival. Camping guests may bring dogs into the hostel's public areas, though not the kitchens.

The old Co-op building in the middle of Youlgreave, above Bradford Dale and a mile from Lathkill. Dogs are only allowed if you take the whole hostel on YHA's Exclusive Hire, and even then not in the bedrooms, on the furniture or in the kitchen, and on a lead in the grounds. For a group with dogs that is a genuinely useful option; for a couple booking a room it is a no.

The most photographed limestone dale in England, with the stepping stones a few minutes upstream of the pay-and-display car park at Thorpe. The stones are flat-topped but spaced and go slick after rain, so most dogs are happier wading the shallow Dove alongside them, and you can stay on the Thorpe bank and not cross at all. The National Trust asks for short leads throughout, as there are sheep, lambs and cattle in the fields; from Ilam there is an alternative route that avoids the cows and the stiles and takes ten minutes longer.

Eight and a half miles of the old Midland Railway between Coombs Road at Bakewell and Blackwell Mill in Chee Dale, level, compacted and completely traffic-free. Four long tunnels are lit during daylight hours, and ramps at Bakewell, Hassop, Great Longstone and Miller's Dale mean wheelchairs, pushchairs and stiff old dogs get the same walk as everyone else. Dogs are welcome the length of it; keep to close control where the trail runs between grazing fields.

Thirteen miles of the old Ashbourne to Buxton line, running from Ashbourne up to Parsley Hay where it joins the High Peak Trail. The surface is level compacted stone the whole way, with accessible car parks, picnic sites and toilets, which makes it the kindest long walk in the county for an arthritic dog. Tissington's old station yard is the best mid-point start; dogs need close control where the trail runs between grazing fields.

Blue John mine on the Winnats side of Castleton, and the one show cavern in the village that takes dogs underground: well-behaved dogs on a lead are welcome in the visitor area and in the cavern itself. Neighbouring Speedwell and Blue John Cavern publish no such welcome, so this is the one to book. Steep steps and a cool 9C inside, whatever the weather outside.