Our drawing of the route — the shape of the walk, not a navigation aid. Carry OS Explorer on the hill.
The full day out from Whitehaven: up past the Candlestick and Haig, along the cliff above Saltom and Barrowmouth, past the old Birkhams sandstone quarry and round the two headlands of St Bees Head with the lighthouse at North Head, then down the long descent to the beach and village at St Bees. It is the biggest cliff walk on the Cumbrian coast and the drops are unfenced in places, so a lead near the edge is sensible. The fields on the landward side are grazed by sheep and cattle for most of the distance. Trains run back to Whitehaven from St Bees roughly every two hours.
A Grade I listed seventeenth-century house with walled gardens at Moresby, two miles north of Whitehaven and a mile inland of the Parton shore walk. The hotel's own site states that it is a dog-friendly hotel and that you can bring well-behaved dogs to stay, so dogs are taken in the bedrooms as well as the public rooms. Rooms start around one hundred pounds a night for a double, super king or twin, with four-poster rooms, a lodge and a studio apartment above that. There is a restaurant open for dinner every evening and Sunday lunch, and the grounds are large enough for a last walk before bed.
A drinking pub on Market Place in the middle of Whitehaven, two minutes from the harbour and on the line of the Coast to Coast walk. The pub's own site states that it welcomes well-behaved dogs into the whole pub, not just one room, which is unusual for a town-centre bar and makes it the easiest stop in Whitehaven if you are coming off the cliffs. It is a bar rather than a kitchen, so treat it as a drink stop rather than a meal, and there is step-free access from Market Place.
A day-to-night cafe, bar and restaurant in the converted bus station on Bransty Row, a minute from Whitehaven station and the start of the walk north to Parton. Its own site says your dogs are welcome in the bar area, and does not extend that to the restaurant, so the bar is the place to sit. Food runs from breakfast at half past nine through to nine in the evening Wednesday to Saturday, with shorter hours on Monday and Tuesday.
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