A family-run country pub on Staveley's main street, serving hearty home-cooked food from local produce since 1999 beside log fires and shabby-chic furniture. The pub describes itself as dog-friendly throughout, with a dog-friendly beer garden hidden at the back complete with a wood-fired pizza oven. The wetland nature reserve on the northern edge of the village is a ten-minute walk away.
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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.
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A flat three-mile hour-and-a-quarter circuit of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust's 79-hectare wetland reserve, built on old gravel workings, with barely 10 metres of height change and a network of surfaced paths that take a buggy or a wheelchair and stay usable in midwinter. The car park on Minskip Road takes a dozen cars, with disabled parking off Main Street through a radar-key gate by the church, and the reserve sits ten minutes from the A1(M) south-west of Boroughbridge. Highland cattle and Hebridean sheep graze here all year, so dogs must be on a lead on every path, and they are not allowed in the largest hide; the lagoons draw bitterns and marsh harriers, so keep the noise down.
A small dog-friendly campsite behind the Royal Oak in Staveley, with electric hook-ups and fresh water and a flat fee per caravan. Dogs are welcome across the site, and the pub's bar, garden and kitchen are a few steps from your pitch. A quiet base for the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust reserve and the lanes towards Boroughbridge and Knaresborough.
Nobody has written one for The Royal Oak Inn. 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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