The tidal Ouse at Saltmarshe swings round a long bend below the hall's parkland, and at low water the bank drops onto a strand of firm sand and shell with mudflat and saltmarsh either side of it. Access is on foot from Saltmarshe station or from the lane past the hall, out to the top of the flood bank; there is no promenade, no slipway and no facilities of any kind. Nothing here is closed to dogs at any time of year, because the East Riding seasonal beach ban reaches only Bridlington, Hornsea and Withernsea. The flood tide comes up this reach fast and pushes a bore-like edge across the flats, and the mud off the sand is soft, so this is a place to stay on the strand and keep the lead handy.
THE SMALL PRINTEast Riding of Yorkshire Council's seasonal dog ban runs 1 May to 30 September and names only three towns: Bridlington, harbour to the Limekiln Lane slipway on North Beach and harbour to the outflow pipe opposite the pumping station on South Beach; Hornsea, the groyne under the Marine pub south to the groyne below the Sands Lane slipway; and Withernsea, the steps north of the Seaside Road slipway to the steps opposite the memorial gardens. The Ouse shore is not covered at all.
Nobody has written one for Saltmarshe Ouse foreshore. 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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