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Walking Wainwright's Coast to Coast with a dog?
Q. Hi.
I am thinking of taking my dog as company on my summer holiday to do the Coast to Coast walk.
Has anyone done this successfully and would anyone recommend it. She is quite agile and very well behaved.
I will be hoping to do a mixture of camping and B & B's (mostly camping!)
Thank you.
Dawn Cawthorne, Merseyside
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A. It's perfectly possible to do the coast to coast with a dog. When I did it, one of our group had a dog with them. We did it camping all the way, but your options might be more limited if you want other accommodation. The YHA will not accept dogs for example. I think you need a pretty fit dog, used to lots of walking. Sore paws become a definite issue towards the end of the walk. You will get people accusing you of cruelty too!
James Carter,
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A. There shall be two of us doing the C2C this summer with 2 boarder collies. Can you remember where the dog friendly camp sights were?
Graeme Hately, Awsworth
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A. We managed to complete the C2C with 2 Boarder Collies in July. Camping all the way with a few nights wild camping.
Your problem will not be so much camping with dogs but the trouble with cows and horses! We had a couple of very close shaves.
Sore pads have been a problem in the past. It's good to have a day off somewhere to let your dog recover.
(For more information on walking through cows see How to stay safe when walking and hiking through fields of cows, Ed,)
Graeme Hately, Awsworth
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A. I did East to West with a Labrador in Sept of this year, did both camping and also stayed in a couple of B&B's, all the following are dog friendly, Glaisdale, Hollins Farm. Lord Stones Cafe (grid 524030) facilities are awful. Ingleby Cross Pub Garden, Blue bell inn. Richmond, St Giles Farm excellant. Reeth, Orchard camping site, Keld Park house camping site (grid 887015) Kerby Stephen, Pennine View camping park. Hope this helps. Barney and Storm.
Barney Barnes, Lyneham
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A. Rufus, my Bearded Collie and I did the Coast to Coast walk two years ago, there are plenty of places to stay at either end of the walk, though its a good idea to book early, as the middle section, Keld, etc, accommodation is a bit harder to find. We enjoyed it so much, I've started planning this year's adventure already. Most dogs are much more sure-footed than us humans and just be sensible where there is livestock and keep Muttley on the lead. PS Rufus has a good appetite, so you don't want to be hauling dog food round, I used a baggage company to forward my large bag daily, though I have also spent a week walking round the Lakes and posted Rufus' food to each Inn I had booked into. Good luck
Camilla Hurst, Sevenoaks
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NB. Wild Camping and The Law in England, Scotland and Wales.
Tents cannot be pitched just anywhere because every piece of Britain is owned by some individual or some organisation and according to the strict letter of the law permission must be obtained prior to pitching tent and camping.
In practice however, this is often impractical and wild camping is usually tolerated in the more remote areas - typically, more than half a day's walk from an official campsite or other accommodation providing you:
- Keep groups small
- Camp as unobtrusively as possible
- Leave camp as you found it
- Remove all litter (even other people's)
- Carry out everything you carried in
- Carry out tampons and sanitary towels (burying them doesn't work as animals dig them up again)
- Choose a dry pitch rather than digging drainage ditches around a tent or moving boulders
- Toilet duties should be performed 30m (100ft) from water and the results buried using a trowel
- At all time, help preserve the environment
- And if you are in any doubt about what you're doing, find out more
In Scotland, the current access legislation (which came into effect in early 2005) is explicit about your right to wild camp on hill land.
There appears to be an exception to this with respect to camping in Dartmoor National Park where the right to wild camping is actually enshrined in the National Parks & Access to the Countryside Act, 1949 amendment Dartmoor Commons Act, 1985 - see Wild Camping in the UK for more details.
For the definitive answer with respect to wild camping in Scotland see the answer supplied by the Scottish Natural Heritage
NB. go4awalk.com cannot offer any advice on suitable locations for wild camping - but click here for walks from exisiting campsites.
Hope this helps
Mike (Editor)
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