Seatown
One pub, one beach, Golden Cap above: a tiny Jurassic Coast base with year-round dog sand at Eype and Hive Beach either side.
Taking your dog to Seatown
- Beach access
- Year-round
- Dog-friendly pubs & cafes
- 12
- Nearby towns
- 2
2 nearby beaches have summer restrictions
Always check ahead before travelling
Closest: Lyme Regis, 5.4 miles
Seatown is barely a hamlet: a lane, a handful of houses and The Anchor Inn dropping down to a shingle beach under Golden Cap, the highest point on England's south coast. The beach itself carries a restriction from May to September, but this stretch of Dorset compensates within a few kilometres in either direction: Eype beach and Burton Bradstock's Hive Beach welcome dogs all year, and so does the long shingle at Cogden.
Is the Golden Cap walk dog friendly?
The reason dog owners come is the walking. The coast path over Golden Cap climbs straight out of the hamlet, and the summit gives you the whole of Lyme Bay at your feet, with fossil-hunting territory below.
Where can you eat with a dog in Seatown?
The Anchor Inn is the natural finish line, and it heads our list of 12 reported dog-friendly places covering Seatown and the villages behind the coast, alongside the Goose and Badger and The Green Yard. Small, quiet and surrounded by big country, Seatown is the Jurassic Coast at its least commercialised.
River Lim Valley from Uplyme
Lyme Regis, Dorset
3 mi · Easy · Off-lead
The River Lim valley walk from Uplyme near Lyme Regis is a 3-mile inland dog walk in Dorset following a quiet river through woodland and pasture.
Blackbury Camp Iron Age Hillfort
Southleigh, Devon
1.5 mi · Easy
Blackbury Camp near Southleigh in East Devon is a dog-friendly English Heritage Iron Age hillfort in beech woodland where dogs are welcome on leads.
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Seatown: common questions
Are dogs allowed on Seatown beach?
Is the Golden Cap walk dog friendly?
Which beaches near Seatown allow dogs all year?
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