Traditional coaching inn on the cobbled square of Middleham, racehorse capital of the north and home to a mighty ruined castle. The hotel is dog friendly, with dogs allowed in the characterful wood-fired bar and in designated bedrooms; staff have been known to slip visiting dogs a breakfast sausage. Gallops-watching and Wensleydale walks from the door.
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Braithwaite Hall is a place to stay in Middleham. 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.
Castle Hill Cottage is a place to stay in Middleham. 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.
Six miles and around three and a quarter hours from the castle down to the wooded banks of the River Cover, along to the packhorse crossing at Hullo Bridge and out to the long green at East Witton, returning past the Cover Bridge Inn; the riverside path is steep-sided and rooty in places. Start in Middleham market place, where parking is free; the 159 bus from Leyburn and Ripon stops in the square. The Cover is shallow, clean and easy to reach for a swim and a drink which makes this a good hot-day walk, but the meadows are grazed so the lead stays on, and the real warning is the gallops - Middleham trains hundreds of racehorses and strings work the moor and the lanes from dawn, so a dog off the lead near them is a serious hazard; stiles are mostly wooden steps, with one narrow stone squeeze near Hullo Bridge.
Nobody has written one for The White Swan Hotel. 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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