Dog-friendly Skelton in Cleveland

A large family pub on Pheasant Fields Lane on the north side of Skelton, with cask ales, a full food menu and a beer garden. Its own site lists dog friendly among the pub's facilities, though it does not say which rooms are covered, so it is worth asking whether the dog can come past the bar. Useful as the nearest pub with parking to the Skelton end of the Cleveland Way.

A village pub on Skelton High Street with a public bar, a lounge with pool table and dart boards, a dining room and six bed and breakfast rooms above. Its own site is unusually clear about dogs: well behaved dogs are welcome not only in the bar and lounge areas but in the bedrooms too, at £5 per dog per night. That combination is rare in this corner of Cleveland, and the pub sits within a mile of the Cleveland Way as it climbs out of Skelton Green.

The inland leg of the Cleveland Way as it leaves the coast behind, climbing south-west out of Skelton Green across working farmland towards Airy Hill and the head of the Slapewath valley. It is an out-and-back of about three and a half miles in total, on field paths and farm track, with the whole of Teesside opening up behind you as you gain height. This is pasture the entire way, so the lead is not optional: on open access land and around livestock the law requires a lead, and between 1 March and 31 July dogs must be on a lead on access land whether stock are there or not.