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Eight verified dog-friendly spots across Edinburgh — five pubs, two cafés and a restaurant — each checked against at least two independent sources.

Five genuinely verified dog-friendly places to stay in Edinburgh, from a free-stay luxury hotel to a harbourside self-catering flat in Leith, checked against each operator’s own policy.

Seven verified dog walks spread right across Cheshire, from Delamere Forest to south Cheshire’s Bickley Hall Farm — plus a boundary-adjacent National Trust park worth knowing about.

Five genuinely verified secure dog fields across Cheshire, with live online booking and real addresses — plus one well-regarded field we’re flagging as just over the border in Wales.

Four professional dog walking businesses in Cheshire we could actually verify beyond a marketplace profile — plus which towns genuinely came up empty.

Four genuinely verified dog-friendly pubs across Cheshire — and an honest note on why we’re not naming a café or restaurant yet.

Genuinely dog-friendly hotels, glamping and cottages in Cheshire, checked one by one against the operator’s own stated policy — including the chains we ruled out and the cottage platforms that wouldn’t publish enough to verify.

Ceredigion’s coast and inland hills make for some of the best dry-land dog walking in Wales. We’ve already covered the county’s swimming spots in a separate guide, so this one is about walking routes — and we’re upfront about which sites publish a specific dog policy and which don’t.

Ceredigion has a cluster of well-known dog-friendly pubs along the coast and in its market towns, but cafés and restaurants with a specific, stated policy proved much harder to pin down. Here’s what checked out.

Ceredigion’s rugged coast makes for a tempting dog-friendly break, but we hold every “pets welcome” claim to the same standard: a specific address and a stated, sourced policy. Here’s what checked out — and why, unusually, there’s no hotel to report.