Rose and Thistle is a pub in Alwinton. 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.
Rose and Thistle is a real pub in Alwinton, 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. Claim this page.
If you have been and you know the answer, tell us and we will go and confirm it.
These are the parts only the business can add. We check the dog policy and stamp the date — photos, prices and their own words are theirs to put in, and this listing is waiting for them.
The fire, the snug, the water bowl by the door.
A few dishes and what they cost, so people arrive knowing.
Can the dog actually sleep here, and what does it cost.
Which rooms, which times, whether the whippet gets a biscuit.
Claiming fills every box above, and lets you reply to reviews when they open. £15 a month, no contract, and it never changes the verdict — the stamp stays ours.
Eight miles and 400 metres of climbing in four and a half hours, up the medieval drove road of Clennell Street to Copper Snout, down into the Alwin valley and back over Barrow Scar above the Coquet gorge. Start at the National Park car park at Alwinton, free with about 30 spaces, which is the last parking before the military ranges and the last building of any kind is the Rose and Thistle in the village. This is as remote as English walking gets: much of the ground is Ministry of Defence land where access is only permitted when no red flags or lamps are flying, there is no phone signal in the valleys, and the fell is grazed by hardy sheep with ground-nesting curlew from March to July, though the Alwin gives good water.
A medieval drove road climbing out of Alwinton over the hills to the Border ridge, still a green track for most of its length. Alwinton is the last village in upper Coquetdale: beyond it there is no fuel, no shop and no signal, and the Otterburn military ranges lie to the east with live firing on published days. Leads on for sheep and nesting birds, and turn back early rather than late.
Nobody has written one for Rose and Thistle. 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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