Popular Dog Walks
Paws in the air if you want to hear about some popular dog walks. The lovely people at Animed had a great idea. They went through all the information on TripAdvisor to see where are our favourite places to go for a walk. By looking at the number of times people mention dog walks within reviews for locations they came up with our favourites and categorised these locations into types, such as a park or a beach, to underline the types of places we dogs most love to walk. And here’s the really cool bit – the place I’m going to with Mum for her birthday is right up there is second place.
Top Ten
Here are the place that they found are the top ten.
| Position | Name | Type of place | Total number of reviews | Number of dog walks mentioned in reviews | Percentage of dog walking reviews | Location |
| 1 | Hengistbury Head Beach | Beaches | 2,289 | 352 | 15% | Bournemouth, Dorset, |
| 2 | Bradgate Park | Parks | 2,654 | 351 | 13% | Newtown Linford, Leicestershire |
| 3 | Attingham Park | Historic Sites | 2,313 | 319 | 14% | Shrewsbury, Shropshire |
| 4 | Wells Next The Sea Beach | Beaches | 1,818 | 318 | 17% | Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk East Anglia |
| 5 | Filey Beach | Beaches | 2,484 | 283 | 11% | Scarborough District, North Yorkshire, |
| 6 | Newmillerdam Country Park | Parks | 915 | 280 | 31% | Wakefield, West Yorkshire |
| 7 | Roundhay Park | Parks | 2,520 | 270 | 11% | Leeds, West Yorkshire |
| 8 | Ingleton Waterfalls Trail | Hiking Trails | 2,724 | 249 | 9% | Yorkshire Dales National Park, North Yorkshire |
| 9 | Woolacombe Beach | Beaches | 3,656 | 224 | 6% | Woolacombe, Devon |
| 10 | Ogden Water Country Park & Nature Reserve | Nature & Wildlife Areas | 605 | 183 | 30% | Halifax, West Yorkshire |
I now want Mum to take me to visit all of the others so I can do my own comparison. In all they looked at 200 different places. That would give us plenty of opportunities to see where other dogs like to walk. You can find their entire write up HERE
Shadow’s Field
In the meantime, Shadow says she’s perfectly happy with the field she’s walking in with Mum. They’ve got it all to themselves, which suits Shadow perfectly. There’s a Border Terrier called Pickle, who Shadow is slowly warming to. Pickle asked to be friends on day one, but you know what Shadow can be like. She’s so much more reserved than I am. Mum has told Pickle that I’ll be up for playing when I arrive so she just needs to be patient. There’s a Labrador called Molly too, but so far she’s only barked at Shadow. It’s a wasted thing to do with Shadow being deaf.
Love
Wilma