Find dog-friendly Britain.

I'm Rachel Polden — I write Holihounds from a small market town in mid-Devon, where I live with two retired racing greyhounds, Fern and Maisie. Before this site I worked as a commissioning editor for a travel magazine; I know what passes for an editorial standard and what doesn't.

Most dog-friendly travel guides on the UK internet aren't really. They list properties marked "pet friendly" on the booking platforms, rephrase the marketing copy, and call it research. The supplements, the garden status, the small print that determines whether a property actually works with a dog — most of it is missing.

This site reverses that. Every cottage, lodge or pub I write up has been verified against its actual listing — max dogs, pet charge, garden enclosure, where dogs are allowed, what's provided. Where the source is vague, the entry says so rather than inventing plausible specifics. Where a holiday park markets a unit-class booking as a "lodge", the entry says so. Where a "fully enclosed" garden has a side gap, the entry tells you to mind it.

Cornwall, the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales are fully covered — twelve verified cottages each, plus beaches and pubs. The other regions and verticals follow as their guides ship.