Swainby Country Park is a place to stay in Swainby. 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.
Swainby Country Park is a real stay in Swainby, 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.
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A short 3.1-mile round with a stiff 190 metres of ascent and about an hour and a half, climbing out of Scugdale to the little sandstone outcrops of Barker's Crags and returning by the bracken slope of Stoney Wicks; short but sharp, and the bracken path is narrow and overgrown by August. It starts at Scugdale Hall at the head of the dead-end lane out of Swainby, where there is very limited verge parking, so if it is full drop back to Huthwaite Green a mile down the valley. Scugdale Beck gives clean water at the bottom, the upper slopes are open moor for a dog to range, but the crags are popular with climbers and have unprotected drops, sheep graze the whole valley and the moor edge, and leads are needed on the moor from 1 March to 31 July.
A varied 7.1-mile circuit with 239 metres of ascent, a little over three hours, taking country lanes and bluebell woods on to the heather of Scarth Wood Moor and back down through Clain Wood; boggy where the moor path drops off the edge. Start in Swainby, parking along the beckside street where the road runs either side of Scugdale Beck, and there is a bus from Northallerton and Stokesley. The beck through the village is a fine paddling spot at the finish, the woods take a dog off the lead well, but the moorland section is open access where leads are required from 1 March to 31 July, and there are sheep on Scarth Nick.
The Black Horse is a pub on High Street, Swainby. 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.
Nobody has written one for Swainby Country Park. 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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