Dog-friendly Danby

An ivy-clad inn of 1732 on Danby's village green, once a recruiting post during the Napoleonic Wars, with beamed bars and an open fire. Dogs are welcome in the bar, and up to two well-behaved dogs can stay in two of the eight bedrooms with prior notice for a small nightly charge. Ideally placed for the Esk Valley line, Danby Beacon and the Moors Centre.

The independently run cafe at Danby Lodge, the North York Moors National Park's flagship visitor centre in the Esk Valley. The cafe itself is dog friendly with indoor and garden seating, and dogs on leads are welcome in the surrounding riverside grounds, though not in the centre's exhibition buildings or Crow Wood. Open daily from 10am to 4pm, with staff happy to suggest dog walks from the door.

A 7.7-mile moorland round with a modest 150 metres of ascent, about three and a half hours, on heather paths and boardwalks laid over the wettest ground, with wide views down to Scaling Dam reservoir and out to the sea. Start from the Moors National Park Centre at Danby, which has a large car park, a cafe and toilets, and sits a few minutes from Danby station on the Esk Valley line. Clitherbeck and the reservoir outflow give water, and the walk is quiet enough for a good stretch off the lead, but this is grouse moor grazed by free-roaming sheep and leads are required from 1 March to 31 July for ground-nesting birds.