Messy Dog Life
& Dog-Friendly Days Out

A Victorian spa town with a moor behind it, a heritage railway on the doorstep and a compact centre full of shops and pubs where dogs are actually welcome inside. Ilkley earns a proper weekend.

Two thousand years of history, genuinely welcoming independent venues and a Saturday anchored by Castle Howard. Here's how to do York properly with a dog.

From a Tudor fort where dogs can go inside to a harbour cluster of dog-welcoming pubs and a dramatic Sunday drive to Corfe Castle — here's how to spend a dog-friendly weekend in Weymouth.

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.

Whitley Bay has a proper seafront, a landmark dome, clifftop ruins and a Park View strip full of cafés and bars where dogs are welcome inside. Here's how a weekend there actually fits together.

Torquay has prehistoric caves, a Victorian model village, Cockington Country Park and a ferry to Dartmouth — plus a harbourfront with actual indoor-welcome venues. Here's how to make a weekend of it with your dog.

Hastings has a working fishing quarter, a Victorian cliff railway that takes dogs inside the carriage, and enough dog-welcoming venues for a full weekend. Here is a plan that actually works.

Canterbury works better with a dog than you might expect. Here's a Friday-to-Sunday itinerary built around confirmed indoor-welcome venues — including the Cathedral itself.

Arrive Friday, spend Saturday working through central Bath from a café inside a church to a cruise on the Avon, then climb to Prior Park on Sunday before lunch at a hilltop pub. Dogs welcome inside at every stop.