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Derry’s city walls were built between 1613 and 1619 and run for about a mile around the centre. They have never been breached, which is how Derry earned the nickname the Maiden City. You can walk the whole circuit, past 22 cannons. We now have dog trainers, vets and swimming guides for the area, alongside

Cave Hill is thought to have inspired Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, with the hill’s outline read as a sleeping giant watching over Belfast. It rises to 368 metres, and one cliff on it is nicknamed Napoleon’s Nose. Figo prefers to think of himself as a very small guard of a very large giant. Belfast has

Cacti in a granite city? The Winter Gardens in Duthie Park hold a large collection of cacti and bromeliads, which is not what most people expect on the North Sea coast. The park around them is where the dog walking happens. Aberdeen has dog sitter, groomer, rescue, vets, swimming and pet transport guides on AboutDogs.

On top of Balgay Hill sits Mills Observatory, which opened in 1935 and is considered the first purpose-built public observatory in the UK. General admission has been free, though planetarium shows carry a small charge and dome visits now need tickets, so check before you go. We haven’t confirmed whether dogs can come inside, so

Andrew Carnegie bought Pittencrieff Park in Dunfermline in 1902 and gave it to the town the following year. The park has an aviary with resident peacocks, and an orchard and sensory garden looked after by the Friends of Pittencrieff Park. Fife is a big area and our coverage here is thin. Dog sitters and groomers

Edinburgh has an extinct volcano in the middle of it. Arthur’s Seat rises to about 250 metres in Holyrood Park, and lava samples date it to roughly 335 million years ago. Figo calls that a lot of history for one sniff. Edinburgh is better served than most Scottish areas on AboutDogs, with guides for vets,

In 1966 the Pollok estate was given to Glasgow Corporation on the condition that it stayed a public park. Today Pollok Country Park covers 146 hectares (361 acres), making it the largest park in the city, and it keeps an award-winning herd of Highland cattle. Glasgow is a big city, and our coverage is patchier

Porthkerry Viaduct has 16 arches and stands 110 feet high at the Barry end. It opened in December 1897 to bring coal to Barry Docks, and it still carries trains across Porthkerry Country Park. It’s a handy landmark for a Vale of Glamorgan dog walk. Our listing for the Vale is three local guides, a

Blaenavon’s industrial landscape, in Torfaen, was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. It takes in the Big Pit coal mine and the Blaenavon Ironworks, along with surrounding mines, quarries, tramroads, a canal and workers’ housing. For dog owners, Torfaen comes with three AboutDogs guides: a local dog trainers directory, a vets guide

From coal tips to country park: Dare Valley Country Park, near Aberdare, opened in December 1973 after two years of land reclamation that included re-routing the River Dare. All the collieries in the valley had closed by 1977. The park now covers about 500 acres with two lakes. Rhondda Cynon Taf has local AboutDogs pages