Dog-friendly Amble

A modern inn on the edge of Amble with thirty bedrooms, a beer garden and free parking, run on the same dog policy as the group's other Northumberland houses: dogs in the designated bar and dining areas, water bowls and treats as standard. Many of the rooms have their own outside door, which makes a late walk easy. Up to two dogs per room.

A High Street free house in one of the oldest buildings in Amble, originally the farmhouse for Link House Farm, doing breakfasts through to restaurant meals with a beer garden behind. Dogs are welcome through the pub itself, with blankets, water and treats kept behind the bar and a Doggy Dinners menu if you want to feed them alongside you. The line that matters for anyone booking a night is the pub's own: "Unfortunately, we are not able to accommodate dogs in the bedrooms." There are four ensuite rooms upstairs and none of them will take a dog, so use it as a pub and stay elsewhere.

A two-mile loop from the Braid car park along the harbour front past the marina pontoons and the Harbour Village huts, out to the Little Shore, then back south along the Coquet estuary edge to the open grass of the Braid, where curlew and redshank feed on the mud at low water. Flat tarmac and gravel path throughout, so it suits an old dog. The county dog control PSPO puts no exclusion on the harbour path or the Braid grass, but the estuary is a bird feeding ground and a dog running the tideline will clear it. The enclosed play area at Paddlers Park is dog-free all year under the same order.

A short mile and a bit out and back along the north breakwater from Amble harbour mouth, straight at Coquet Island and its lighthouse a mile offshore, with roseate terns crossing overhead through May and June and grey seals on the water below. Flat concrete deck with a low parapet. The county dog control PSPO carries no restriction here, but this is the least sheltered ground in Amble: the deck takes green water in any northerly blow and the drop to the rocks on the harbour side is unfenced, so a lead is the sensible call from the pier root outwards. Coquet Island itself is an RSPB reserve with no public landing at all.

Five miles in a shade over two hours, out along the shore past Bondi Carrs to Low Hauxley and back through the lakes and woodland of Hauxley nature reserve. Start at the Braid car park by Amble harbour, which is free and large, with the Little Shore and the coast path signposted from its far corner. The beach south of Amble has no seasonal dog restriction and is off-lead, but Northumberland Wildlife Trust asks for dogs on leads on the reserve paths, and Coquet Island’s tern colony means the shoreline birds are best given room in summer.

Two and a half miles upriver from the Braid car park at Amble harbour, following the north bank of the Coquet past the boatyard and the saltmarsh to Warkworth Bridge, with the castle keep on its mound in front of you for the last mile. Level surfaced path for the first half, then a grass and gravel riverside track. It is the standard way locals move between the two towns on foot and it works as a one-way with the X18 bus back. The county dog control PSPO places no exclusion on the route; the last stretch runs alongside the road into Warkworth, where the 1.5m lead rule for classified roads applies.

Simple, well-kept lodge rooms a short walk from Amble harbour and the Braid, with dog-friendly rooms among them. Handy for the fish shacks and the Coquet Island boat trips, and for the coast path north to Warkworth. Confirm the dog room when booking as they are a subset of the total.