Messy Dog Life
& Dog-Friendly Days Out

Whitby has the abbey, the steam railway, the harbour and a remarkable number of places that will wave your dog inside without hesitation. Here's a loose framework for making the most of it.

Lancaster is often driven through on the way to the Lakes. It deserves better. Here's a loose two-night framework built around Williamson Park, the canal and venues where dogs are genuinely welcome inside.

Ramsgate has a Royal Harbour, a coastal boat trip where dogs sail in lifejackets, and enough indoor-welcome venues to fill a weekend without engineering your route around a pavement.

Paignton is a proper English seaside resort — pier, beach, harbour — and dogs are welcome inside at a surprisingly good range of cafés and pubs. Here's how to make a weekend of it.

Oxford rewards the dog owner who knows where to look. This guide covers the riverside, Jericho, Summertown and the city centre — with confirmed dog-welcome venues and a Saturday anchor on the water.

Cromer earns its weekend: a Victorian pier, proper crab, indoor-welcome cafés and shops, and Felbrigg Hall's 520 acres of parkland just outside town. Here's how to put it together with a dog.