Access to lots of long footpaths for dog walking
Looking for sites ideally with footpaths that I don't have to walk a mile to get to with our Springer spaniel on a lead (she's not great on it and not normally on a lead for walking). The Malverns club site was very good. I'm based in the North Staffs/South Cheshire area - Buxton looks good on paper. I was just outside Leek Blackshaw Moor which have access to The Roaches and the area around Tittesworth reservoir (the stone path around a lot of the reservoir want nice for my dog who ended up with some cuts in her pads and there were many keep your did on a lead signs) but once I got away from the man made park and put on to the surrounding footpaths through meadows it was lovely.
I've been looking at site between Stoke and Betws-y-coed but not find anything that really grabbed me. So basically where is great for dog walking - we like to be out for around 4hrs - with stopping to eat, hills and map reading that might only be 6-9 miles. We could head off in any direction - doesn't have to be West towards Wales - any solid gold suggestions?
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