Blogs About Dogs

Pembrokeshire’s professional dog walking scene is genuinely thin to research online — there’s no council scheme and, on our first pass, barely any independent businesses with their own web presence. It isn’t a total blank, though, and a second look on Google Maps (below) turned up a few more, so here’s what we could verify.

Pembrokeshire’s pub coverage via CAMRA’s own “Dog Friendly” tag is strong across most of the county’s coastal towns, though cafés and restaurants are, as usual, much thinner and harder to verify. Verified pubs (CAMRA “Dog Friendly” tag), by town Haverfordwest: Farmers Arms, Holloway. Tenby: Bush Inn, Crown Inn, Harbwr Tap & Kitchen. Pembroke: Hope Inn,

Pembrokeshire’s dog-friendly accommodation is led by three genuinely first-party-confirmed standouts — a country house hotel, a coaching inn and a boutique hotel with its own dog-only wing — with the rest of the county needing a direct call before you book. Verified on the operator’s own site The Grove of Narberth, near Narberth — confirmed

Oxfordshire’s best dog walks run from National Trust estates to Blenheim Palace’s private parkland, with a couple of commonly-repeated claims — about Wychwood Forest and Oxford’s own park rules — worth correcting. National Trust sites Greys Court, near Henley: dogs on a lead across the estate and parkland (it’s a working farm with livestock), with

On our first pass Oxfordshire delivered exactly one secure dog field we could independently verify, near Bicester. A second look on Google Maps, further down, adds several more well-reviewed fields, including some close to Oxford. The Bark Park Bicester Charbridge Lane, Launton, near Bicester (OX26 4SS) — confirmed via the operator’s own site: 6ft secure

Oxfordshire’s pub coverage via CAMRA’s own “Dog Friendly” tag is strong and spread right across the county, from Oxford city to its smallest towns. Cafés and restaurants are, as usual, much thinner, with one solid exception in Oxford itself. Verified pubs (CAMRA “Dog Friendly” tag) Oxford city: Wolvercote, Oxford Blue, Turf Tavern, Jolly Farmers, Royal

Oxfordshire’s dog-friendly accommodation is harder to pin down than you’d expect for a county this well-visited, with most names needing a direct call to confirm — but two genuinely solid, first-party-confirmed finds stand out. Verified on the operator’s own site The Dog House, Abingdon (Chef & Brewer Collection) — confirmed via the operator’s own site:

Nottinghamshire’s best dog walks centre on Clumber Park and the various Sherwood sites — which turn out to be several genuinely different places easily lumped together — plus a patchwork of district-level rules worth knowing before you set off. Clumber Park — the county’s flagship This National Trust estate welcomes dogs across most of the

Nottinghamshire delivers two genuinely verified, exclusive-use secure dog fields, confirmed directly via their own booking sites, plus a handful of promising but unconfirmed candidates worth a call before you book. Verified fields Papplewick Paws Secure Dog Field, Papplewick, near Hucknall (NG15 8GB) — confirmed via the operator’s own site: each booking is exclusive for the

Nottinghamshire has no dog-walker licensing scheme anywhere in the county, and on our first pass we couldn’t verify a single independent dog-walking business with a genuinely active website or social presence, though a second look on Google Maps (below) found a dozen with their own websites. What did clear our bar first time round were