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Dogs are welcome on select Dorset beaches

Dogs are welcome on select Dorset beaches

Dogs on Beaches

Abbotsbury - Chesil Bank & Fleet Lagoon Nature Reserve
Dogs welcome at all times


Avon
No dogs between 1st May - 30th September


Bowleaze Cove
Dogs welcome at all times


Burton Bradstock
No dogs between 1st May - 30th September


Charmouth - East Beach
No dogs between the hours of 10am and 6pm during July & August


Charmouth - West Beach
No dogs between 1st May - 30th September


Church Ope
Dogs welcome at all times


Cogden
Dogs welcome at all times


Durdle Door
Dogs welcome at all times


Eype
Dogs welcome at all times


Friars Cliff
No dogs between 1st May - 30th September


Highcliffe 
Dogs are not permitted between groynes H8 and H11 from May 1 until September 30. Dogs must be on a lead on the promenade.


Highcliffe Castle
Dogs welcome at all times


Kimmeridge
Dogs welcome at all times


Lulworth Cove
Dogs welcome at all times


Lyme Regis
No dogs on the area of beach from Cobb Gate Car Park west to the Lifeboat slipway between 1st April - 31st October. N.B. Dogs are allowed on East Cliff Beach and Monmouth Beach all year round.


Mudeford Sandbank
Dogs welcome at all times


Ringstead
Dogs welcome at all times


Seatown
No dogs at any time 


Studland
Dogs are not allowed on Middle and Knoll beaches (from Red-end point to training bank) between early July and early September. Dogs are allowed on Shell Bay and South Beach all year provided they are on a lead and that owners clean up after them.


Swanage
No dogs between 1st May - 30th September


West Bay
No dogs between 1st May - 1st October within the East Pier to East Cliffs and West Pier to West Cliffs areas


West Bexington
Dogs allowed at all times within a restricted area


Weymouth
No dogs on main beach between 1st May - 30th September. Dogs permitted all year round within a restricted area


Worbarrow Bay
Dogs welcome at all times