Dog-friendly pubs in the Lake District

A family-run village inn under the Old Man of Coniston with its own brewery out the back — the Bluebird and Old Man ales are brewed on site. Dogs are welcome throughout with no restrictions, free to settle while you eat, and water goes down without asking. The food is honest traditional pub cooking. Dogs stay in the rooms for around fifteen pounds a stay, with ground-floor cottage rooms that suit a dog who'd rather skip the stairs.

True to the name, a dog-mad town-centre real-ale pub in Keswick — itself about the dog-friendliest town in the country — where dogs are welcome in every corner. It's bustling and cosy, famous locally for its Hungarian goulash, with a strong cask list and treats to buy at the bar. No rooms and no bookings, so roll up. Five minutes from Derwentwater and the foot of Catbells, it's the natural end to a northern-fells day with a dog.

The lively heart of dog-friendly Grasmere — an award-winning real-ale and craft-cider bar with a big beer garden, where dogs are welcome throughout and get their own water bowl and a treat on arrival. The food leans gastro and is served twice a day, the ale list is serious, and the garden fills with walkers and wet dogs the moment the sun's out. Dale Lodge attached has dog-friendly rooms if you want to stay.

A tucked-away 17th-century fellside inn in quiet Mungrisdale, with footpaths to Blencathra's summit starting near the door — a proper walkers' base in the unshowy Northern Fells. Dogs are welcome throughout, water bowls on request, and the homecooked food (the pies get the reviews) goes down well after a day on the tops. Several en-suite B&B rooms, many with fell views and dog-friendly — confirm at booking. The kind of honest inn the Lakes still does well.

A friendly family-and-walkers village inn at the foot of Ullswater, with a separate bar built for muddy boots and wet dogs — exactly what you want after the Hallin Fell round or the lakeshore path. Dogs are welcome throughout, with water bowls and treats always going and sausages for dogs on request (small charge). Several of the en-suite rooms are dog-friendly. A short walk from the Ullswater shore and the Steamer pier, which also takes dogs.

The postcard village inn beside the green and tarn at Elterwater, and a reliable dog stop in the heart of the central fells. Dogs are welcome in the bars and garden and in the bedrooms — but not the restaurant, where you'll be seated in the hall to eat with your dog instead. Fresh water bowls go out daily. The food is proper pub-to-gastro cooking. Dogs aren't allowed on the beds in the rooms, and the room charge is often waived — confirm the current line.

A celebrated 400-year-old fellside inn between Loweswater and Crummock Water, with its own brewery and one of the great pub garden views in the Lakes. Two honest catches set it apart from the usual Lakeland welcome — dogs are barred from the bar between half five and ten in the evening Monday to Saturday (the garden's always fine, and dogs are welcome inside all day Sunday), and dogs are not allowed in the bedrooms at all. Plan the evening around it and it's a gem.

A legendary climbers' and walkers' rite-of-passage at the foot of the Langdale Pikes, barely changed since 1949. The famous Hikers' Bar is a converted stone-floored shippon — which means it could not care less about a soaking-wet, muddy dog, and dogs are welcome there and in the beer garden. Hearty food runs all day, twelve till nine. Dog-friendly rooms for around ten pounds a night make it a base for the central fells. As elemental as a Lakeland pub gets.

The remote, iconic walkers' and climbers' inn at the head of Wasdale, under Scafell Pike and Great Gable — the self-styled birthplace of British climbing, and a place with a deep dog culture. Dogs are welcome in Ritson's Bar and the residents' bar and outside, with biscuits and towels for drying wet paws; reviewers report treats and the odd sausage. The formal Abrahams Restaurant is the likely exception, so read it as bar-and-garden until you confirm. Dogs in the rooms for around ten pounds a night.

The polished option at the southern tip of Windermere — an upmarket riverside hotel-with-pub where the Swan Inn bar is the dog-friendly route in; the smarter hotel areas are not. Bowls and towels are provided, and the specified dog-furnished rooms take up to two dogs at around twenty-five pounds each per night, declared at booking. It's a couple of minutes from Fell Foot park and the lake, and rather more comfortable than the average walkers' inn if that's the trip.