Can I take my dog on Penzance beach today?

• Wherry Town to Battery RocksNo dogs, 1 July to 31 August, from 10:00 to 18:00. From Wherry Town to Battery Rocks.The council's dogs-on-beaches page: “Wherry Town to Battery Rocks”Our line may be up to 40 m out, because we drew it from the council’s map.

  

• Longrock to MarazionNo dogs, 1 July to 31 August, from 10:00 to 18:00. From the level crossing at Longrock to Marazion.The council's dogs-on-beaches page: “Longrock level crossing to Marazion”Our line may be up to 150 m out, because we drew it from the council’s map.

  

The council publishes a map of each beach only as a picture, so the shaded areas are drawn by us from those maps.

From 1 July to 31 August (62 days) dogs are banned from Wherry Town to Battery Rocks and Longrock to Marazion, from 10:00 to 18:00.

For the other 303 days of the year no ban holds on those stretches.

• Along the coast, Mousehole: No ban today; the summer ban starts again on 1 July 2027.
• Along the coast, Perranuthnoe: No ban today; the summer ban starts again on 1 July 2027.

Dogs on Beaches Public Spaces Protection Order 2026, made by Cornwall Council. In force from 13 April 2026 until 12 April 2029. We read it on 30 September 2026.

• The order in force, on Cornwall Council's page
• Where we quote it from: the sealed order (a scan, PDF); the beach names are as the council's dogs-on-beaches page and its maps give them.

Other beaches along this coast are on the Cornwall beaches page.