Our drawing of the route, over road and path data from OpenStreetMap. It shows where the walk goes and what it goes through. It is not a survey and not a navigation aid — carry OS Explorer on the hill.
Five miles there and back in a little over two hours, almost flat, on dune path and firm sand past Annstead to the limekilns at Beadnell harbour. Start at the main pay-and-display car park behind Seahouses seafront, which is large but charges all year and fills on Farne Islands boat days. No part of this beach carries a seasonal dog ban, so it is off-lead sand the whole way; the dunes are fenced in places for nesting birds and the Annstead Burn gives a drink halfway.
A seafront hotel at St Aidan's, looking straight out at the Farnes, and one of the few places on this coast to say plainly how many dog rooms it holds. Twenty of the bedrooms are designated dog-friendly, some with private garden space, so check availability rather than assuming. Dogs are asked to stay off the beds and furniture.
A three and a half mile easy circuit of about ninety minutes, north from the harbour along the sand to the old Monks House and back on the dune track behind North Sunderland. It begins at the harbour car park in Seahouses; parking is pay-and-display and the harbour end goes first, so the seafront car park is the reliable fallback. The sand is open to dogs all year with no council restriction, so this is an off-lead run out and back, though the return skirts fenced grazing and the harbour itself is busy with fish crates and vehicles.
A working farm on the ridge between Seahouses and Bamburgh with self-catering cottages, lodges, wigwams and a touring caravan field, all of it set up for dogs rather than tolerating them. The farm tracks give you a walk before breakfast without touching a road. The beach at Seahouses is a mile and a half down the lane.
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