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.
Three and a half miles in an hour and three quarters, over the dunes to the sand and north along the beach to the rock scars at Birling Carrs, returning by the links path. Start at the Warkworth beach car park at the end of Beal Bank, a charged council car park that is the only parking on this side of the river and fills on the first warm Saturday of the year. Dogs run free on the whole beach with no seasonal ban anywhere in this parish, and the Coquet mouth is a good swim on a calm day, but the dune grassland is grazed and the estuary end holds roosting terns in late summer.
Daytime cafe and courtyard in the middle of Warkworth, good for breakfast before the castle opens. It is dog friendly, but the dog-friendly tables are a limited set: say you have a dog when you reserve, because they are subject to availability. The courtyard is the pleasanter half in fine weather.
A stone pub on Castle Street with benches at the front and a sheltered yard behind that the landlord calls the yar-den. The inn describes itself as dog friendly and does bar food and B&B rooms, all en suite. It does not state whether dogs may stay in the bedrooms, so ask before booking.
A small riverside site on Morwick Road for tents, caravans and campervans, with a walkway down to the Coquet that suits an early dog walk. The site takes well-behaved dogs as a matter of course. Warkworth village and castle are a mile and a half north.
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