Short answer: The Tarka Trail starts in Barnstaple and is a superb flat dog walk. The Pannier Market is dog friendly — rare for a covered market. Tarko Lounge, Bull & Bear and the Muddiford Inn all welcome dogs inside.
Barnstaple Pannier Market is a huge covered Victorian hall with independent stalls, and it is dog friendly. That is genuinely unusual for an indoor market and it makes Barnstaple a good wet-day town with a dog.
Starts in Barnstaple and runs flat, paved and traffic-free down the Taw estuary. The best long dog walk in north Devon, with no cars and no mud.
Medieval, originally thirteenth century. Now that through traffic uses the bypass, it is a pleasant walk across the Taw.
The Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon and Air Extreme Trampoline Park — plan accordingly.
Saunton Sands and Braunton Burrows are fifteen minutes away and dog friendly year-round — Saunton is the best summer dog beach in north Devon.
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