Food & Drink
North York Moors pubs with a view
By Jon Cosson · Updated 17 October 2026
Ridge-top free houses, inns perched above a dale and clifftop bars on the coast. The North York Moors pubs where the view is the reason you came.
Winter on the moors is firelight weather: the low-beamed bar of a traditional moorland inn, where the view gives way to the fire.
This guide is independent: no pub pays to be listed, and nothing is ranked. The list is drawn from the pub records, with unknown facilities left unstated.
Esk Valley, near Whitby
The Salmon Leap at Sleights is inland on the Esk, not a sea-view pub. The pub records describe a rear beer garden looking onto the North Yorkshire Moors Railway line.
The full list
There are 27 pubs listed here, each checked against the pub's own published information in September 2026. The list is built from the same pub records as the pub finder, so the count is live.
High moors (9)
The Lion Inn
Blakey Ridge, YO62 7LQ
A 16th-century free house standing alone on the watershed at the highest point of the National Park, at 1,325 feet, with Rosedale falling away one side and Farndale the other.
- Dogs: yes
- Rooms: yes
- Real ale: yes
- View
Dogs in rooms: not stated.
Dogs are welcome in the bar areas but not the dining rooms. Food is served 12pm to 9pm without a break, which is unusual out here.
The Eskdale
Castleton, YO21 2EU
An 1865 village inn rebuilt around a seasonal menu of local produce, with a garden running down to the bank of the Esk.
- Dogs: yes
- Rooms: not stated
- Real ale: not stated
- View
The bar stays open to 11pm but the kitchen shuts at 8pm, and on Sunday food stops at 5pm.
Feversham Arms Inn
Church Houses, Farndale
A flagged-floor bar with open fires, two dining rooms and a beer garden, all looking down the Daffodil Valley.
- Dogs: yes
- Rooms: yes
- Real ale: not stated
- View
Dogs in rooms: not stated.
Severely reduced hours: closed all day Monday; Tuesday and Wednesday from 7pm for drinks only; food Thursday to Saturday 12 to 2 and 6 to 8, and Sunday 12 to 4, so ring before setting out. It offers a pick-up and return service for walkers, including from the Coast to Coast at Blakey Ridge.
The Duke of Wellington Inn
An inn overlooking Danby's green that predates 1765, used as a recruiting post during the Napoleonic Wars; a cast-iron plaque of the Duke found during restoration hangs above the main bar fireplace.
- Dogs: yes
- Rooms: yes
- Real ale: not stated
- View
Dogs in rooms: not stated.
Within walking distance of Danby station on the Esk Valley line, so one of the few moorland inns reachable without a car. The Moors National Park Centre is a short walk away.
The Wheatsheaf Inn
Egton
A 19th-century inn of real fires and antiques, cooking a seasonal menu around fresh fish and game in season.
- Dogs: not stated
- Rooms: yes
- Real ale: not stated
- View
Dogs in rooms: not stated.
Closed all day Monday. On the Egton Gallon Walk they advise going in reverse and starting here, and warn that the route circulating online is out of date, listing seven pubs rather than eight.
Check before travelling: the pub's own site had no recent dated information when checked in September 2026.
Horseshoe Hotel
Egton Bridge
An 18th-century inn on the bank of the River Esk, doing honest seasonal local cooking, with six en-suite rooms.
- Dogs: yes
- Rooms: yes
- Real ale: yes
- View
Dogs in rooms: yes, see restrictions below.
A fixed weekly rhythm: curry night Mondays, fish Fridays, roasts Sunday. All dogs welcome at no extra cost, with rooms 3 and 6 suited to larger dogs.
The Inn on the Moor Hotel
A country hotel with a proper public bar and log fires, run by a family with farming roots in the area going back over a century.
- Dogs: yes
- Rooms: yes
- Real ale: not stated
- View
Dogs in rooms: not stated.
Goathland has free-roaming sheep. Keep dogs on leads.
An accessible ground-floor room is recorded.
The Mallyan Spout Hotel
A substantial stone hotel on the village edge whose restaurant looks across the Esk Valley, serving Whitby fish on a Yorkshire-sourced menu, with a separate bar doing pub food.
- Dogs: not stated
- Rooms: yes
- Real ale: not stated
- View
Dogs in rooms: not stated.
Goathland has free-roaming sheep. Keep dogs on leads.
The path to Mallyan Spout waterfall leaves from beside the hotel. It also does weddings, so a summer Saturday may be busy with a private function.
White Horse Farm Inn
Rosedale Abbey, YO18 8SE
A 16th-century inn set on the hillside above Rosedale Abbey rather than in it, so the bar, terrace and many bedrooms look down over the village and out across the moors.
- Dogs: yes
- Rooms: yes
- Real ale: yes
- View
Dogs in rooms: not stated.
Food from noon on Friday, Saturday and Sunday but only from 5pm on other days. Breakfast is not included in the room rate and must be pre-booked. They run a motorhome stopover scheme.
Check before travelling: the pub's own site had no recent dated information when checked in September 2026.
Southern edge (2)
The Abbey Inn
Byland, YO61 4BD
A nineteenth-century inn facing the ruins of Byland Abbey, doing pub classics and a Sunday roast built around filled Yorkshire puddings.
- Dogs: yes
- Rooms: yes
- Real ale: yes
- View
Dogs in rooms: no.
Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays all year. Dogs in the pub but not in the accommodation. Breakfast is not served on site; guests go a mile to Oldstead.
The Fox & Rabbit Inn
Lockton, YO18 7NQ
A family-run roadside inn on the A169 at the edge of Dalby Forest, run by the same brothers since 2004, with panoramic views south over the Vale of Pickering.
- Dogs: no
- Rooms: yes
- Real ale: yes
- View
Dogs in rooms: not stated.
Dogs are not allowed inside; guide dogs excepted
Coast (12)
Raven Hall Country House Hotel
A country house hotel 600 feet above the sea looking down the whole sweep of Robin Hood's Bay, with cliff-face terraced gardens and battlements built by a Victorian rector who gambled the family fortune away.
- Dogs: yes
- Rooms: yes
- Real ale: not stated
- View
Dogs in rooms: not stated.
A hotel bar rather than a pub, and essentially the only hospitality in Ravenscar, so there is no alternative if it is closed for a wedding. Built 1774 as Peak Hall, opened as a hotel in 1895.
Check before travelling: the pub's own site had no recent dated information when checked in September 2026.
Hotel Victoria
Robin Hood's Bay, YO22 4RL
A Victorian clifftop hotel with sea-view balcony rooms and three separate drinking spaces, including one styled as a traditional Yorkshire pub.
- Dogs: yes
- Rooms: yes
- Real ale: not stated
- View
Dogs in rooms: yes, see restrictions below.
Dogs in the Captain's Quarters rooms only, not the main hotel. At the top of the bank, so the Robin Hood's Bay pub you can park near and the one that spares you the climb back up.
The Bay Hotel
Robin Hood's Bay, YO22 4SJ
The pub at the end of Wainwright's Coast to Coast, with Wainwright's Bar named for him, standing on the dock where three national trails meet.
- Dogs: not stated
- Rooms: yes
- Real ale: not stated
- View
Dogs in rooms: not stated.
Wainwright's Bar is seasonal. On the dock itself at the bottom of the bank, with no vehicle access. Everyone walks down. The seaward frontage takes spray and can be cut off in a surge.
The Royal
Runswick Bay, TS13 5HT
A traditional pub whose beer garden looks out over Runswick Bay, with changing local ales and a private dining room sharing the same view.
- Dogs: yes
- Rooms: not stated
- Real ale: yes
- View
Winter hours vary. Families welcome until 9pm. The lower village has effectively no visitor parking; the car park is at the top and the bank down is severe.
The Hart Inn
Sandsend, YO21 3SU
A friendly pub and restaurant on the sea front, yards from the beach at the Whitby end of the village.
- Dogs: yes
- Rooms: not stated
- Real ale: yes
- View
Sunday 11am to 5.30pm only, which is unusually early. Sandsend parking is roadside along the sea wall and fills by mid-morning in summer.
Check before travelling: the pub's own site had no recent dated information when checked in September 2026.
The Salmon Leap Hotel
Sleights, YO22 5AA
A hotel about three miles from Whitby whose rear beer garden looks onto the North Yorkshire Moors Railway line, so steam trains pass in summer.
- Dogs: not stated
- Rooms: yes
- Real ale: not stated
- View
Dogs in rooms: not stated.
Esk Valley, near Whitby
Accommodation-led, and their own site says little about the bar. With the Plough closed, it is currently the only pub in Sleights.
Check before travelling: the pub's own site had no recent dated information when checked in September 2026.
The Cod and Lobster
A pub standing on the seawall itself, with windows over the bobbing boats; their own site records the 1953 storm that washed the front of the building away.
- Dogs: yes
- Rooms: yes
- Real ale: yes
- View
Dogs in rooms: not stated.
No vehicle access. Cars go in the clifftop car park on Staithes Lane and you walk down a very steep bank. Expect it shuttered in an easterly gale.
Duke of York
Whitby, YO22 4DE
An inn at the foot of the 199 steps whose upper windows look across the harbour mouth; the pub you fall into on the way down from the Abbey.
- Dogs: yes
- Rooms: yes
- Real ale: yes
- View
Dogs in rooms: not stated.
Station Inn
Whitby, YO21 1DH
A live music and cask pub across from the harbour with five en-suite rooms, known locally for its cask ales.
- Dogs: yes
- Rooms: yes
- Real ale: yes
- View
Dogs in rooms: no.
This was the old Tap and Spile. Dogs throughout the bar, but not for overnight guests.
The Angel Hotel
Whitby, YO21 1DH
Whitby's Wetherspoon, on the harbour side by the swing bridge, with two front balcony rooms looking straight over the water; commercial use of the site is traced back to at least 1795.
- Dogs: not stated
- Rooms: yes
- Real ale: not stated
- View
Dogs in rooms: not stated.
The easiest pub in Whitby to reach from the station and bus station with luggage.
The Endeavour
Whitby, YO22 4AS
A small drinkers' pub on Church Street named for Cook's ship, with a monthly Irish folk session their own site says has run over twenty-five years.
- Dogs: yes
- Rooms: yes
- Real ale: yes
- View
Dogs in rooms: not stated.
No real kitchen. They invite you to bring in fish and chips and buy a ploughman's or cheeseboard.
Check before travelling: the pub's own site had no recent dated information when checked in September 2026.
The Pier Inn
Whitby, YO21 3PU
A Pier Road pub whose balcony hangs directly over the harbour, one of the few places in Whitby to drink outdoors above the fishing boats, with ten en-suite rooms.
- Dogs: yes
- Rooms: yes
- Real ale: yes
- View
Dogs in rooms: not stated.
Western moors (4)
The Blackwell Ox Inn
Carlton-in-Cleveland, TS9 7DJ
A privately run inn with a resident Thai kitchen cooking alongside English pub food and a grill, directly under Carlton Bank and the Cleveland Way ascent to Lord Stones.
- Dogs: not stated
- Rooms: yes
- Real ale: yes
- View
Dogs in rooms: not stated.
Rooms are lodges with hot tubs rather than inn bedrooms. The children's adventure play area is warmer months only.
The Carpenters Arms
Felixkirk, YO7 2DP
A dining inn using its own kitchen garden, with eight garden suites around landscaped grounds looking across the Vale of Mowbray.
- Dogs: not stated
- Rooms: yes
- Real ale: not stated
- View
Dogs in rooms: not stated.
Presents itself for diners and overnight guests rather than boots, though it sits a couple of miles from Boltby and the Cleveland Way.
The Forresters Arms
Kilburn, YO61 4AH
An old inn next to the Mouseman workshop, overlooking the White Horse of Kilburn, with eight rooms including an accessible one.
- Dogs: not stated
- Rooms: yes
- Real ale: not stated
- View
Dogs in rooms: not stated.
Formerly The Mariners' Compass. The closest inn to the White Horse car park and the Kilburn end of the Cleveland Way above Sutton Bank.
Check before travelling: the pub's own site had no recent dated information when checked in September 2026.
The King's Head Inn
Newton under Roseberry, TS9 6QR
An inn at the foot of Roseberry Topping run as a walkers' and families' refuelling stop, with a hand-carved carvery on Sundays.
- Dogs: yes
- Rooms: yes
- Real ale: yes
- View
Dogs in rooms: not stated.
Breakfast from 7.30am, the earliest of any pub on the moors, and light bites 11 to 5 bridge the usual afternoon food gap. The obvious base for an early Roseberry or Cleveland Way start.
Check each pub's opening hours, food service and access notes before travelling. More options are listed in the pub finder.
Frequently asked questions
- Which pubs have moorland or valley views?
- The Lion Inn, Blakey Ridge; The Eskdale, Castleton; The Mallyan Spout Hotel, Goathland; The Inn on the Moor Hotel, Goathland; Horseshoe Hotel, Egton Bridge; The Duke of Wellington Inn, Danby; Feversham Arms Inn, Church Houses, Farndale; White Horse Farm Inn, Rosedale Abbey; The Wheatsheaf Inn, Egton. The Lion Inn records views over Rosedale and Farndale from Blakey Ridge.
- Is every pub in the coastal group beside the sea?
- No. The Salmon Leap at Sleights is inland on the Esk, in the Esk Valley near Whitby. Its card is labelled separately from the sea-view pubs.
- Which pubs with a view welcome dogs?
- The Lion Inn, Blakey Ridge; The Eskdale, Castleton; The Inn on the Moor Hotel, Goathland; Horseshoe Hotel, Egton Bridge; The Duke of Wellington Inn, Danby; Feversham Arms Inn, Church Houses, Farndale; White Horse Farm Inn, Rosedale Abbey; The Abbey Inn, Byland; Duke of York, Whitby; The Endeavour, Whitby; The Pier Inn, Whitby; Station Inn, Whitby; Hotel Victoria, Robin Hood's Bay; The Cod and Lobster, Staithes; The Royal, Runswick Bay; The Hart Inn, Sandsend; Raven Hall Country House Hotel, Ravenscar; The King's Head Inn, Newton under Roseberry. Check the recorded restrictions on dining areas and rooms.
Opening hours, menus and access change with the season and the weather. Check with the pub before travelling. More options in the full food and drink guide.
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