Haverigg Beach
A wide sand and shingle beach at the mouth of the Duddon, backed by marram dunes and running west towards Silecroft with Black Combe standing behind it. At low water the sand is firm and vast. There is no seasonal dog ban here: Cumberland Council's dog control order lists no beach anywhere in the county as either a dog exclusion area or a dogs-on-lead area, so the sand is open to dogs off the lead all year round, which is a genuine finding rather than a gap in the record. What is restricted is the land behind the beach. There are no lifeguards and the Duddon channel runs hard on the ebb, so keep a swimming dog well away from the mouth of the estuary.
Haverigg dunes and Millom Sands
Out along the sand west from the Haverigg beach car park with Black Combe filling the view inland, then back through the marram dunes and along the Haverigg pool into the village. At low water the sand is firm and enormous and a dog can run for a mile without meeting a road; at high water the walk is on the dune paths instead, which are soft going. There is no seasonal dog ban on this beach. The play area at Haverigg is the one place on the route dogs may not go.
Millom Park, Millom Castle and Holy Trinity
A town circuit from the station and Market Square out through Millom Park on St George's Road, then north across the fields to the fourteenth-century pele tower of Millom Castle and the old parish church of Holy Trinity, which stand on their own a mile from the modern town. Field paths back down to Mainsgate Road complete the loop. It is short and mostly level and it is the walk to do when the tide is in and the sands are gone. The park itself is a dogs-on-lead area and its play area is closed to dogs entirely.