Riverside Cafe is a place to eat on Castleton Road, Bamford. 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.
Riverside Cafe is a real restaurant in Bamford, 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.
If this is your business, tell us whether dogs are welcome and we will put a stamp on it — free, and it stays free. Tell us your dog policy. Want the whole page — photos, prices, your own words? Claim this listing.
If you have been and you know the answer, tell us and we will go and confirm it.
Photos, a sample menu and prices, any room details and the venue’s own house rules will appear here once the business claims this listing. Until then, what you see above is what we’ve checked and verified ourselves.
Claiming lets you add all of that and reply to reviews in your own name, right underneath them. £12.99 a month, no contract, and it never changes the verdict — the stamp stays ours.
Four and a quarter miles and about two and a half hours for the best view-to-effort ratio in the Peak, looking straight down on Ladybower from a gritstone rim 260 metres above the valley. Start from the free roadside lay-bys on New Road above Bamford, which hold perhaps twenty cars in total and are full by nine on any fine day; parking on the verges beyond them causes real problems for residents. The edge is unfenced with a sheer drop in places and the moor behind is open access land where a fixed two-metre lead is required from 1 March to 31 July for the ground-nesting birds and at all times near the sheep, and there is no water on the top at all.
Ten miles and five hours on forest tracks and reservoir roads up the length of Derwent and Howden to the packhorse bridge at Slippery Stones, with barely 260 metres of climbing spread over the lot. Start at Fairholmes visitor centre, where the pay car park fills by mid-morning and the valley road above closes to cars at weekends and bank holidays, with a shuttle bus running instead. Severn Trent asks for dogs to be on a lead at all times here because of the wildlife, the shallow river above Slippery Stones is the one safe place for a swim as the reservoirs themselves are steep-sided and dangerous, and the cafe kiosk at Fairholmes has water and trail maps.
Three reservoirs, the Dambusters dam at Derwent and a network of surfaced tracks that suit wheels and old legs, from the quarter-mile walk to Ladybower's plugholes up to the ten-mile Slippery Stones circuit. Severn Trent, who own it, require dogs to be kept on a lead at all times because of the wildlife and stock. Note there is no full walking circuit of Ladybower itself - the A57 has no footway - so park at Heatherdene or Fairholmes and use the marked trails.
Nobody has written one for Riverside Cafe. If you have been with the dog, you would be the first — and the first review is the one everybody reads.
Real dog-welcoming cottages from our booking partner holidaycottages.co.uk — live prices, booked on their site. Booking through these links supports Wagfinder and never changes the price you pay.
Wrekin Havoc
Heart of England · dogs welcome
7 nights from £404
The Phone Box
Heart of England · dogs welcome
7 nights from £411
Mallard Blaco Hill Farm
Heart of England · dogs welcome
7 nights from £418
The Cuckoos Nest
Heart of England · dogs welcome
7 nights from £447
Wrens Nest
Heart of England · dogs welcome
7 nights from £449
Wren Blaco Hill Farm
Heart of England · dogs welcome
7 nights from £458
The Mill Granary
Heart of England · dogs welcome
7 nights from £461
Thorndon Barn Annex
Heart of England · dogs welcome
7 nights from £462
Swallow Blaco Hill Farm
Heart of England · dogs welcome
7 nights from £507
The Old Post Office Matlock
Heart of England · dogs welcome
7 nights from £531
Know one we have missed?
Local knowledge beats desk research every time. Name the place and we will check it properly — the venue's own policy, confirmed, then stamped and dated like every other listing.
One short email when we add places or a council changes its beach rules. No noise, easy out.
NO SPAM · UNSUBSCRIBE ANY TIME · WE NEVER SELL THE LIST
Wagfinder Members
ENTER DOG OF THE MONTH · RESTRICTION ALERTS · CANCEL ANY TIME