Dog-friendly Middleton Tyas

A four-hundred-year-old village pub in the middle of Middleton Tyas, an old copper-mining village a mile east of Scotch Corner. The pub's own facilities list states dogs are allowed, alongside a beer garden, a car park and a real fire, so there is somewhere to sit outside in summer and something to dry off in front of in winter. Food is served every day, lunchtimes and evenings Monday to Friday and straight through on Saturday and Sunday, with the bar open until eleven. It is the obvious stop at the end of the Five Hills Lane and Cow Lane circuit.

The estate's main restaurant, in the converted coach house at Middleton Lodge on Kneeton Lane. The published terms bar dogs from the indoor restaurant but make one exception, the Snug, so a dog can sit with you there while you eat or drink and nowhere else inside. Dogs must be on a lead the whole time they are on the estate, and they cannot be taken into the lounges, the Walled Gardens or the Orchard, which rules out a wander round the gardens afterwards. Booking is required for all restaurant guests and you are met at the Gatehouse on the main drive when you arrive.

A lane circuit out of Middleton Tyas: north up Kneeton Lane past the turn for Middleton Lodge, right along Five Hills Lane towards Moulton, then back by field track and Cow Lane to the top of the village. These are single-track farm lanes with grass down the middle and long views north to the Tees valley, and you can walk most of it without meeting a car, though there is no pavement so a dog needs to be at heel when one comes. There is no seasonal dog ban here and no lead order on the lanes, only the fouling offence, which is a £50 fixed penalty in the Richmondshire area. It ends within a minute of the Shoulder of Mutton, which allows dogs.

A Georgian estate on Kneeton Lane a mile north of Middleton Tyas village, with bedrooms spread across the Coach House, Walled Garden, Dairy and Orchard buildings. The estate's own terms are precise about dogs: five Coach House comfy rooms take them at thirty pounds per room per night and no other room type does, dogs stay on leads everywhere on the grounds, and they are kept out of the lounges, the Walled Gardens and the Orchard. Indoors at the Coach House restaurant is also out, with the Snug the one exception, so a dog can sit with you for a drink but not in the main dining room. Parking on the estate is free and there are farm animals on site that dogs must be kept away from.