Dog-friendly Bawtry

A family-run pub on Gainsborough Road at the southern edge of Bawtry, in the same hands since 2007 and trading on plain home-cooked food at sensible prices rather than on a menu that changes every season. The pub describes itself on its own site as a family and dog friendly traditional pub and serves food seven days a week, which in this part of the borough is worth knowing because most of Bawtry's High Street venues publish nothing about dogs at all. There is a beer garden behind for warm days and a takeaway service. It is the practical dog stop for Bawtry now that the woodland east of the town is behind a permit scheme.

A coaching inn on Bawtry High Street, on the old Great North Road, with a bar and restaurant on the ground floor and bedrooms above and behind. This is the useful but awkward combination: the hotel takes dogs in bedrooms but not anywhere else, so a dog can sleep here and walk from the door but cannot sit with you in the bar or the restaurant. Dogs go in designated bedrooms only at £15 per night on top of the room rate, and the hotel will only allow a dog to be left alone in a room if it is in its own cage, which you have to bring yourself. Bowls, blankets and bedtime treats are provided, and dogs have to be added to the booking by phone rather than online.