North Yorkshire · 7 places checked
Harbour cottages, cobles and clifftop paths — leads on for the sheep fields. Every verdict below was checked by a human — the stamp shows when.
A real-ale inn at the top of the village on Staithes Lane, named for the town's most famous apprentice. Its own site notes a couple of rooms are dog friendly for 'a break away with your four legged friend', but they are limited, so check before booking.
A small vintage tearoom in the old village that welcomes dogs, though the room is snug and there will very likely be other dogs already in residence. Light meals and cakes at kind prices after a blowy walk on the breakwater.
A welcoming High Street local in the old village that happily takes dogs — just be prepared for the small indoor rooms to be busy, and full of other dogs. A proper fishing-village pint, moments from the harbour.
The famous harbour-wall pub at the foot of Staithes, where the spray hits the windows on a rough day. Its own policy is simple: your dog is welcome provided it is clean, on a lead and kept on the floor.
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ADD A PLACEA small, sheltered harbour beach hemmed in by steep cliffs at the foot of one of Yorkshire's prettiest fishing villages. Dogs are welcome all year, but the beach mostly disappears at high tide and the walk down through the village is steep, so it is not wheelchair accessible.
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ADD A PLACEA 4.2-mile circular of about two hours that climbs hard out of Staithes harbour onto the Cleveland Way, runs a mile along unfenced clifftop to Port Mulgrave, then loops back over fields, down wooden steps into woodland and through Dalehouse. Park in the pay-and-display car park at the top of Staithes Lane, since the old village is barred to cars, and walk down the cobbled alleys past the Cod and Lobster to start. The cliff path is unfenced with a sheer drop to the scars below and the return crosses grazed fields with gates, so this is a lead-on walk throughout, though the beck at Dalehouse and the harbour give a drink at either end.
A 7.6-mile circular with 220 metres of climbing, roughly three and a half hours, out along the Cleveland Way past Old Nab and Port Mulgrave to the steps at Rosedale Wyke and down into Runswick Bay, then back inland by field paths through Hinderwell and Dalehouse. Start from the car park at the top of Staithes Lane; the Arriva X4 links Staithes, Hinderwell and Runswick Bay if you would rather walk it one way and ride back. Both beaches take dogs all year and there is genuine off-lead running on the inland return, but the clifftop is unfenced and undercut in places and the fields carry sheep, so lead up for the whole coastal half.
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