England's first purpose-built infantry barracks, put up from 1717 to Nicholas Hawksmoor's design around a parade square off The Parade, with the Main Guard sentry building down on Palace Street. English Heritage names Berwick-upon-Tweed Barracks and Main Guard on its own published list of dog-friendly properties, so a dog on a lead can come with you. English Heritage's stated rule for its dog-friendly sites is to keep the dog on a lead near livestock and to clean up after it. The barracks square is gravel and cobble with no shade, and the site sits directly on the ramparts walk, which makes it an easy add-on to the walls circuit rather than a destination in itself. Check opening before travelling, as parts of the site have been in and out of use during the Living Barracks redevelopment.
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What it looks like with a dog in the picture.
Entry, parking, whether the dog goes free.
Can the dog actually sleep here, and what does it cost.
Which parts of the site, and whether leads are required.
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A large Haven caravan park on the cliff top at Magdalene Fields, ten minutes' walk from the Elizabethan walls and with its own steps down to the sand. Haven's own park page states plainly: "We welcome dogs with open arms! There's a dog-friendly beach and restaurant terrace as well as nearby areas to walk that'll make your pooches' tails wag. You can even bring well-behaved dogs into designated areas of the main restaurant." Dogs go in pet-friendly caravans only, which are a subset of the stock and must be selected at booking, so a general availability search will show you vans you cannot use. The Brigs of Tweed is the on-park bar and restaurant with the dog terrace.
An easy mile and three quarters there and back along Quay Walls, past Ness Gate and out onto the half-mile stone pier to the squat red lighthouse at its end, with the whole of Spittal and the Tweed mouth on one side and open North Sea on the other. It is flat concrete and stone the whole way with no stiles and no gates. The council's dog control PSPO carries no exclusion or lead order here. What matters instead is the sea: the pier has no railing on the seaward side for much of its length, waves break clean over the parapet in any easterly, and it is closed off by the harbour authority in rough weather. Keep a dog close and turn round if spray is landing on the deck.
Three and a half miles there and back upstream from below Stephenson's Royal Border Bridge, following the north bank of the Tweed out of town through the trees to the Whiteadder confluence and Canty's Bridge on the Paxton road. It leaves the crowds within five minutes and the far end is all heron, goosander and salmon nets. Bank path and estate track, muddy after rain and with two kissing gates. The county dog control PSPO puts no exclusion or lead order on the route, so it is off-lead ground, but the bank is undercut in places with a fast deep river below and the last field before Canty's Bridge is grazed.
Nobody has written one for Berwick-upon-Tweed Barracks and Main Guard. If you have been with the dog, you would be the first — and the first review is the one everybody reads.
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