Messy Dog Life
& Dog-Friendly Days Out

A compact Yorkshire Dales town with a cobbled square, genuine indoor dog welcomes and Bolton Abbey on the doorstep. Here's how a dog-friendly weekend in Grassington actually fits together.

A Norman castle above the Swale, atmospheric abbey ruins and a market place lined with dog-friendly pubs and cafés. Richmond earns two nights without trying particularly hard.

Waterfalls, proper pubs and a compact market town that's genuinely easy to navigate with a dog. Here's a loose framework for a weekend in and around Hawes in the Yorkshire Dales.

Ludlow's compact medieval streets, a castle that welcomes dogs inside the ruins, and a genuine spread of indoor-welcome venues make it one of the most effortless dog-friendly weekends in the Welsh Marches.

Steep cobbles, a silted harbour, smugglers' pubs and a medieval town that rewards a slow pace. Here's how to spend a dog-friendly weekend in Rye, with confirmed indoor welcomes throughout.

Jazz received a bone-shaped treat, found every burial spot already taken and spent one afternoon solving the problem in the most Jazz way possible. Warm, wry and completely true.