River Cottage is a place to stay in Ashford in the Water. It is listed here so you know it is there, but we have not yet established whether dogs are welcome — so there is no verdict on this page and no stamp. If it is your business, claim the page and tell us, and we will stamp it.
River Cottage is a real stay in Ashford in the Water, and it is here so you know it exists. But we have not been able to find a dog policy for it that we would stand behind, so we are not going to guess at one. No verdict, no stamp, no date.
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Five and a half miles and about three hours over the limestone plateau to the best-preserved lead mine in the Peak, returning through Great Shacklow Wood. Start at the roadside spaces by Sheepwash Bridge in Ashford-in-the-Water, which take a dozen cars and no more, so an early arrival or a walk out from Bakewell is wise. This is walled sheep pasture the whole way with squeeze stiles a broad-chested dog will need lifting through, the Magpie Mine site has open shafts fenced but unroofed and no dog should be loose there, and the only reliable water is the Wye at the end of the wood.
Unreconstructed village pub on Church Street with an open fire in winter and boules in the garden in summer. Robinsons list it as dog friendly, and it is the quieter of the two Ashford pubs. A useful halt on the Monsal Trail loop from Bakewell.
A four and a half mile circuit of about two and a half hours that drops from the Monsal Head viewpoint into the dale, follows the Wye upstream past Cressbrook and comes back over the viaduct on the Monsal Trail. The steep path down from Monsal Head is loose limestone and hard on the knees in the wet; the car park at Monsal Head is pay-and-display, small, and full by ten on a summer Sunday. Cattle and sheep graze the dale bottom and the meadows above Upperdale, so a fixed lead of no more than two metres is required near stock and on the access land above the dale from 1 March to 31 July for the ground-nesting birds; the river gives shallow, easy drinking all the way along.
Nobody has written one for River Cottage. 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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