A gastropub at Springfield on the edge of Stokesley, serving food from noon until late seven days a week, with a large outdoor area including the main beer garden. The pub bills itself as dog friendly on its own site and keeps a dog-friendly area indoors, but it does not publish which rooms that covers, so ask before you settle in the restaurant half. Parking on site, which makes it a workable finish to the River Leven walk.
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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 small tap room and micro-pub in the middle of Stokesley, all cask and craft and no fruit machines. Well behaved dogs are welcomed indoors as well as in the beer garden, and the owners say so in as many words on their own FAQ.
A flat 3.7-mile riverside stroll with barely 10 metres of ascent, an hour and a half, on mown grass paths and field edges beside the River Leven, finishing over the seventeenth-century packhorse bridge in the town. Start from Stokesley market place, which has free short-stay parking and frequent buses from Middlesbrough and Great Ayton. The Leven is shallow and easy to get in and out of the whole way, there are bins and benches along the town stretch, and dogs can be off the lead on the riverside greens, though the outer field section is sometimes grazed.
Eight flat miles with barely 20 metres of ascent and around three and a quarter hours, tracking the River Leven across the vale between the two towns and returning on the paths north of the river; there is no climbing at all but the arable headlands are heavy going in winter and there are numerous stiles and kissing gates. It starts in Stokesley town square, where parking is free for three hours and the Arriva 81 runs to Great Ayton if you would rather walk one way and ride back. The Leven is within reach for most of the route and gives easy drinking and a shallow paddle, but almost every field on this walk is farmed, with sheep and cattle in the pastures and standing crops in the arable, so this is a lead walk with only short releases.
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