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.
Six miles and around three and a quarter hours over the highest cliff on England's east coast, 300 metres of climbing with one long unrelenting pull from Cowbar to the 203-metre summit and a field-path return past the trig point. Start at the Staithes visitor car park at the top of the bank, since the village itself is closed to cars, and the number 5 bus from Whitby stops beside it. The clifftop fields are grazed and the path runs close to a sheer and unfenced 200-metre drop for over a mile, so this is a lead walk for its whole seaward half, though the return over the tops is open ground with a beck to drink from.
A real-ale inn at the top of the village on Staithes Lane, named for the town's most famous apprentice. Its own site notes a couple of rooms are dog friendly for 'a break away with your four legged friend', but they are limited, so check before booking.
A small vintage tearoom in the old village that welcomes dogs, though the room is snug and there will very likely be other dogs already in residence. Light meals and cakes at kind prices after a blowy walk on the breakwater.
A welcoming High Street local in the old village that happily takes dogs — just be prepared for the small indoor rooms to be busy, and full of other dogs. A proper fishing-village pint, moments from the harbour.
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