Dog-friendly Cromer

A Victorian hotel on the cliff by Cromer church, looking down on the pier. Dogs are welcome in the bar, lounge and restaurant, there is a doggy bar with dog beer, and dogs staying overnight get a bed, bowl and welcome pack plus a sausage at breakfast. The most straightforwardly dog-friendly place to eat in Cromer.

Four and three quarter miles in a little over two hours, west along the beach below the cliffs to the two Runtons and back on the clifftop path, with the chalk reef and the fossil beds exposed at low water. It starts at the Runton Road cliff-top car park in Cromer, pay and display and the closest to the western beach ramp; check the tide before you set off because the beach section is cut off at high water and the only exits are the gaps at East and West Runton. Dogs run free on the sands outside the restricted zones, the rock pools and freshwater seeps give a drink, but the council excludes dogs from the marked areas of Cromer and West Runton beaches from 1 May to 30 September.

Four and a half miles there and back in two and a quarter hours, out along the Norfolk Coast Path east of the pier past the lighthouse and the golf links, dropping into Overstrand for a turn on the promenade before coming home the same way. Start from the Cromer Meadow car park behind the church, the biggest in town and a five-minute walk from the pier; the Coasthopper and the Sheringham train both stop nearby if you would rather go one way. The cliff path is grassy and unfenced with a long drop, dogs can go off lead on the golf-course margin but not on the fairways, and the council bans dogs from the marked areas of both Cromer and Overstrand beaches and requires leads on the proms from 1 May to 30 September.

Seven and a half miles and around three and a half hours, the one properly hilly walk in Norfolk, climbing off the coast through Felbrigg's woods and parkland to the Roman Camp, the highest ground in the county at 103 metres. Start at Cromer Meadow car park and take the Weavers' Way out of town, or drive to the National Trust car park at Felbrigg, postcode NR11 8PR, and do the shorter parkland half; Felbrigg has water bowls and dog bins at the visitor buildings. Dogs must be on a lead across the whole Felbrigg estate between 1 March and 31 July and in the marked areas at other times of year, sheep and cattle graze the park, and the lake and the woodland streams give a reliable drink.