This is the front door to every area guide we’ve built. Figo and I have put together a page for each county and area, and each one points you to whichever trainer, vet, swimming, sitter, groomer and rescue guides we have for it. Pick your nation below, find your area and tap through.
Coverage isn’t equal everywhere. England and Wales are well stocked, while Scotland and Northern Ireland have fewer local guides so far. Each area page says plainly what we have and what we haven’t, and points you to a UK-wide guide where there’s a gap.
Jump to: England · Wales · Scotland · Northern Ireland
England (46 areas)
- Bedfordshire — market towns and open farmland
- Berkshire — Thames-side towns with plenty of green space
- Buckinghamshire — beech woods, hills and commuter villages
- Cambridgeshire — fenland, flat skies and a university city
- Cheshire — farmland, canals and the Welsh border
- Cornwall — coves, the coast path and a lot of rocky shoreline
- County Durham — dales, moorland and a cathedral city
- Cumbria — lakes, fells and a lot of mud
- Derbyshire — limestone dales and hill country
- Devon — Dartmoor, two coastlines and a packed summer season
- Dorset — chalk downland and a World Heritage coast
- East Riding of Yorkshire — rolling wolds, big skies and a long shoreline
- East Sussex — chalk cliffs, downs and seaside towns
- Essex — estuaries, saltmarsh and miles of coastline
- Gloucestershire — Cotswold villages and the Severn Vale
- Greater London — parks, canals and a lot of city dogs
- Greater Manchester — a big city with moorland on the doorstep
- Hampshire — heathland, chalk streams and the south coast
- Herefordshire — quiet border country and orchards
- Hertfordshire — garden-city towns with green belt in between
- Isle of Wight — island walks, ferries and sandy beaches
- Kent — orchards, white cliffs and the Channel ports
- Lancashire — coast, moors and old mill towns
- Leicestershire — gentle countryside and a lively city
- Lincolnshire — wide horizons, wolds and a flat coast
- Merseyside — a waterfront city, dunes and pinewoods
- Middlesex — a historic county, now mostly part of outer London
- Norfolk — the Broads, wide beaches and quiet lanes
- North Yorkshire — dales, moors and a coastline of its own
- Northamptonshire — farmland, woodland and country parks
- Northumberland — empty skies, castles and long beaches
- Nottinghamshire — woodland, a city and the Trent valley
- Oxfordshire — a university city, river meadows and Cotswold fringes
- Shropshire — hills, border towns and few crowds
- Somerset — the Levels, the Mendips and the Quantocks
- South Yorkshire — big city grit and lots of hills
- Staffordshire — pottery towns and open moorland
- Suffolk — heaths, estuaries and a gentle coast
- Surrey — wooded hills and the North Downs
- Tyne and Wear — quayside cities and wide sandy bays
- Warwickshire — castles, canals and Shakespeare country
- West Midlands — a big conurbation with a huge canal network
- West Sussex — downs, harbours and shingle beaches
- West Yorkshire — mill towns, moors and big cities
- Wiltshire — chalk downs, ancient sites and open plains
- Worcestershire — orchards, riverside walks and hills
Wales (19 areas)
- Blaenau Gwent — south Wales valleys and open hillsides
- Bridgend — heritage coast and valley edge
- Cardiff — the capital, with parks and a bay
- Carmarthenshire — rural west Wales with a long estuary coast
- Ceredigion — quiet hills and the Cardigan Bay shoreline
- Conwy — mountains meeting the north Wales coast
- Denbighshire — heather hills and the Vale of Clwyd
- Flintshire — north-east Wales on the Dee estuary
- Gwynedd — high mountains, Welsh-speaking villages and beaches
- Monmouthshire — border country, rivers and rolling hills
- Neath Port Talbot — wooded valleys, waterfalls and a long beach
- Newport — a riverside city on the Usk and the Severn estuary
- Pembrokeshire — clifftop paths and sandy bays
- Powys — big, wild and thinly populated
- Rhondda Cynon Taf — valley towns and country parks
- Swansea — a city, a bay and a peninsula on its doorstep
- Torfaen — a World Heritage industrial landscape and upland walking
- Vale of Glamorgan — green farmland and a cliff-backed coast
- Wrexham — the biggest settlement in north Wales, right by the border
Scotland (5 areas)
- Aberdeen City — the granite city on the North Sea
- City of Edinburgh — the capital, with hill walks inside the city
- Dundee City — a Tayside city with riverside and hill walks
- Fife — harbour villages, market towns and a long coast
- Glasgow City — Scotland’s biggest city, with lots of big parks
Northern Ireland (2 areas)
- Belfast — a city with hills rising right behind it
- Derry and Strabane — the north-west corner, the River Foyle and the Sperrin hills
Can’t see your area?
We’re still growing. If your patch isn’t here, or its page is light on local guides, our UK-wide guides can help: dog trainers (England and Wales), vets (England), dog sitters, groomers and pet transport. And when you’re kitting out for the walk itself, have a browse around Calmshops.
Written by Georgiana & Figo.
