Dog-friendly Snettisham and around

A large family pub on the edge of Hunstanton doing grills, stone-baked pizzas and pub classics, with a beer garden and table service. Dogs are welcome in the whole pub, not just a corner of it, which matters in a town whose beach shuts to dogs for seven months. Useful on a wet day in April.

A dry chalk valley behind Hunstanton, the largest surviving piece of chalk grassland in Norfolk, thick with wild thyme and marjoram in summer. Dogs are allowed on a lead, and the valley floor gives an easy there-and-back walk with high sides and no road noise. Open dawn to dusk all year.

A sixteenth-century smugglers' inn on the edge of Thornham marsh, all low beams, open fires and paraffin lamps. Dogs are welcome through the door and can stay the night, with a bed, towel and water bowl in the room and a cooked sausage at breakfast; there is a dog menu too. The marsh boardwalk starts a few yards away.

A smart village pub at the Hunstanton end of Thornham, known locally for cooking well above the average. It is proudly dog friendly, with its own doggy menu and guest rooms that take dogs. A good stop between the Titchwell marshes and Holme dunes.

A flint-and-brick pub on Thornham high street with eleven bedrooms split between the inn and a cottage next door. The pub says it is dog friendly throughout, including most of the bedrooms, and overnight dogs get the use of a bed, a bowl and a ball to take home. Water and snacks are out for dogs all day, and there is a resident pub dog.

Dune, pine and grazing marsh at the corner where the north coast turns south into the Wash, with big skies and, at low tide in winter, real solitude. Dogs are allowed on a lead throughout the reserve and on the patio outside the visitor centre, where leash hooks are provided, but not inside the centre. Car parking must be booked in advance during 2026.