This section is designed to help you find uk walks for you and your best friend to enjoy together, helping you to plan your walking holidays uk. We will try to gather a variety of routes to meet a range of needs for all of our walks uk. We will welcome contributions from others (please see copyright and data use) but will take into account our experiences below in deciding what to include within the uk walks directory.
If you are not used to walking longer distances, especially in hills and mountains, we suggest you take care to plan for your own comfort and safety and your dogs needs. Hamish can keep going all day – longer than us – but needs regular drinks, especially in hot weather. Typically he drinks more than us, we often carry at least a litre of water for him and supplement this with clear running supplies we encounter on the walk. Please consider your dog’s need for a drink.
Whilst we take care to ensure walking instructions are easy to follow Dogpeople Limited cannot, and do not, guarantee complete accuracy of all details. Users of instructions must accept the possibility of errors or omissions and any consequences arising there from. Routes can look different at different times of the year and there is always the possibility landowners will change fence lines or access through them. Felling trees can also make a difference - even in comparing 'the ground' with Ordnance Survey maps. Please take these possibilities into account before setting off.
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Even in the National Parks we have found it difficult on occasions to find places for Hamish to really stretch his legs. Sheep and other livestock have been the main reasons for this. We are confident Hamish wouldn’t hurt any of these but he would almost certainly make them run – so we always keep him on his lead when farm animals are around whilst on any uk walks.
We have found forest and woodland walks help us overcome this problem. Even for a full day’s walking we try and plan sections of them into the route so Hamish gets the chance to explore beyond the end of his extending lead. Blean Woods are Hamish’s favourite place for local uk walks. These are partly owned by The Woodland Trust. Other favoured walks close to home include King’s Wood (Challock) and Clowes Wood (Radfall) both Forestry Commission property.
Another problem in planning walking holidays are stiles, especially on longer walks uk. Step stiles over dry stone walls are especially difficult. Hamish is not a big jumper so needs to be lifted – not a desirable option for him or us, especially when he’s wet and muddy! We have found long distance paths tend to have fewer ‘dog unfriendly’ stiles and bridle paths nearly always have gates. Hamish is good at scrambling under gaps so, as long as the fence isn’t sheep proof, he can often get around a difficult stile. A short diversion will sometimes allow passage through a farm gate as an alternative to lifting your dog. Always ensure you secure the gate when you leave it whenever you use one. We will endeavour to give warning of stiles and other problems in walking instructions. |
