Dog-friendly Beadnell

The pub at the top of Beadnell, five minutes from the bay, and unusually clear about dogs: they are welcome in the bar, in the restaurant and outside through every service hour. Water is put down inside and out, with a tap in the garden for rinsing sandy legs. Dogs may also stay overnight in the rooms.

Glass-fronted restaurant above Beadnell Bay, built for the view and busy with it. Dogs are welcome in the restaurant only between half past eight in the morning and five in the afternoon, and on the decking and in the orangery at any hour. After five the indoor rooms are dog-free, which catches people out at dinner.

Five miles there and back along the great arc of Beadnell Bay to the footbridge over the Long Nanny burn, two hours on level sand and dune path. Start from the harbour car park at the north end of Beadnell, a small pay-and-display that fills by mid-morning; the National Trust car park at Low Newton makes a better base if you would rather walk it from the south. The beach itself has no seasonal dog ban, but the National Trust ropes off the Arctic and little tern colony at the Long Nanny and wardens it round the clock from May to August, and dogs must be on a short lead through that stretch.

A short two and a half mile hour on the flat, out along the whinstone spur of Ebb’s Nook past the ruined chapel and back through the village and dunes. Park at the harbour car park by the eighteenth-century limekilns, which is pay-and-display and small; the walk can also be started from the roadside at the south end of the village. Sand and rock with no seasonal dog restriction anywhere on this beach, so leads can come off, but the Nook is a narrow grassy promontory with abrupt low cliffs on both sides and the tide covers the causeway of rock at its base.

A revived village hotel with a decent kitchen and a set of pet-friendly bedrooms, the ground-floor ones opening straight outside so the six o'clock walk does not involve a corridor. Ten minutes on foot to the bay. The hotel confirms pet-friendly accommodation but does not publish a dog charge, so agree it at booking.