Terms of use

Please read these before you rely on anything on this site. The short version is in the box below.

1. Who we are

Find Dog Walks ("we", "us") is a free guide to places to walk a dog off the lead, in parts of England and France. It is run by Lime Creations Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 08816195), whose registered office is 71-75 Shelton Street, London WC2H 9JQ.

You can contact us at [email protected], or by post at the address above.

By using the site you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use it.

2. A guide, not permission

Ratings such as "Great" or "Good", phrases like "off lead confirmed", suggested loops and anything else on the site are our opinion, based on the information we could find. They aren't advice that a place is safe for you or your dog, and they don't give you any right of access. Some places listed may be private, closed, or only partly open to the public.

3. Your responsibilities

When you visit a place you find here, you are responsible for:

• Checking the rules on the day. Read the signs at the entrance and follow them, along with any instructions from rangers, landowners or staff. Rules change, and many are seasonal.
• Deciding whether it's safe to let your dog off the lead. Only do it if your dog reliably comes back when called and stays in sight. If in doubt, keep it on the lead.
• Livestock. Put your dog on a lead near sheep, cattle, horses and other animals. Worrying livestock is a criminal offence, and a farmer may in some circumstances be entitled to shoot a dog that is worrying livestock.
• Open access land. On land open to the public under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, dogs must by law be on a lead no longer than 2 metres from 1 March to 31 July, and at any time near livestock, unless local signs say otherwise.
• Wildlife. Keep your dog to the paths where ground-nesting birds breed, usually from March to September on the heaths.
• Roads, water and other hazards. These include traffic, deep or fast water, blue-green algae, steep drops, adders and ticks.
• Other people and their dogs. It's an offence for a dog to be dangerously out of control anywhere. Not everyone wants to meet your dog.
• Clearing up after your dog and any local rules or Public Space Protection Orders.
• Your own safety, including the weather, your route and getting home.

4. How accurate the information is

We build the site from open map data, government datasets and websites run by councils, landowners and others. We try to get it right, but we can't promise that any of it is accurate, complete or current. Paths may be missing or closed, car parks may charge or have closed, outlines on the map are approximate, and research may have matched the wrong place. Muddiness, shade and loop times are estimates worked out by computer. We don't check places in person.

If you spot something wrong, please email us so we can fix it.

5. Routes, directions and other websites

Suggested loops are drawn by computer from OpenStreetMap paths. We haven't walked them. A loop may use a path that is private, closed, overgrown or unsuitable, or cross a road. Directions links open Google Maps or another service run by someone else, and links to council, landowner and other websites are there for information. We aren't responsible for other websites or what they say.

6. Photos and data

Photos come from Wikimedia Commons and are used under the licence shown with each one. Map data is © OpenStreetMap contributors and other sources listed on the About page. The text on this site is ours. Please don't copy large parts of it.

7. Walker reports

When you share a report, you confirm it is an honest account of your own visit. Don't include anyone's personal details, and don't use reports to advertise. Reports are checked by an AI model and by us. We can reject, hold or remove any report without giving a reason, and we may use accepted reports to change ratings and what a page says. Walkers' reports can be wrong too: they describe one visit, and conditions change. You give us permission to use what you send for running the site.

8. Advertising

Some content may be paid for by businesses. It will always be labelled "Sponsored". We don't endorse advertisers or guarantee their goods or services, and any deal you make with them is between you and them. Advertisers can't pay to change a place's rating or what we say about it.

9. Our liability

The site is free to use and is provided "as is". As far as the law allows, we are not liable for any loss, injury, damage, cost or expense that arises from using the site or relying on anything on it. That includes injury to you, your dog, other people or animals, damage to property, vet bills, fines and travel costs.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot be excluded or limited under the law of England and Wales.

10. Changes

We may change these terms and the site at any time. The date at the bottom of the page shows when they were last updated.

11. Law

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction.

Last updated 11 November 2026.