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Dog walks in Kent

Trekosa finds dog walks in Kent to suit your dog and you. Tell us once what your dog finds hard, and we show you walks near you with the roads, stiles, livestock and council dog rules already marked, so the first surprise of the walk is not a field of ewes.

Done and live. We have measured every walk against the map: the footpaths and rights of way, what is underfoot, and what you will meet on the way. We have read the rules about dogs of all 13 councils here. We cannot yet place twelve councils' orders on the map, so a walk there says the rules are unknown rather than absent.

Dogs on Kent's beaches: when dogs are banned from part of the beach at Whitstable, Herne Bay, Deal, St Margaret’s Bay, Dover, Folkestone, Sandgate, Hythe, Dymchurch, St Mary’s Bay and Littlestone.

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MaidstoneGillinghamAshford20 km
Kent, from Ordnance Survey boundary data.

Three walks in Kent

Three of the walks in Kent, from those that start nearest the middle of its towns: a 4.7 km loop, an 11.6 km there and back and a 1.9 km one-way walk. How we pick them

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  • Luton, Medway loop4.7 km · 81 min · A loop
  • Near Maidstone (longest)11.6 km · 199 min · There and back
  • Near Gravesend (shortest)1.9 km · 33 min · One way

What the walks in Kent are like

We have measured 74,000 walks in Kent so far, each against the same public map data: where the path runs, what is beside it, the roads it meets and what is on the way. Each bar is the share of those walks the sentence is true of.

How far they go

Under 3 km: 36% of the walks in Kent, against 38% in the typical county we cover, and no row here differs by more.

Where the walks fall by length. The five bars add up to the whole, give or take the rounding.

Walks thatShare of walks measured
Under 3 km
36%
3 to 5 km
21%
5 to 8 km
18%
8 to 12 km
11%
Over 12 km
11%

What shape they are

A loop: 21% of the walks in Kent, against 17% in the typical county we cover.

A loop brings you back without repeating a step. There and back retraces the way out.

Walks thatShare of walks measured
A loop
21%
There and back the same way
49%
One way, ending somewhere else
28%

What is beside the path

Beside farm grassland for half or more: 59% of the walks in Kent, against 77% in the typical county we cover.

Shares of walks where the ground beside the path is a given kind for the stated part of the way.

Walks thatShare of walks measured
Under trees for a third or more of the way
49%
Beside water for a tenth or more
47%
On open access land for a third or more
6%
Through a park or green space for a third or more
14%
Beside crop fields for a third or more
93%
Beside farm grassland for half or more
59%
No farm grassland at all
5%
Off road for four fifths or more
10%
On roads or lanes for half or more
62%
Through built-up streets for half or more
3%

What might stop you

No stile, gate or cattle grid: 64% of the walks in Kent, against 75% in the typical county we cover.

Shares of walks with none of each thing on the way. A road counts when it runs within about fifteen metres of the path.

Walks thatShare of walks measured
Never beside a fast road
86%
Never beside a busy road
70%
No busy road to cross
71%
No stile, gate or cattle grid
64%
No steps
81%

What is on the way

Start where you can park, at a car park or on a minor road: 85% of the walks in Kent, against 76% in the typical county we cover.

Shares of walks that start by, or pass, each of these.

Walks thatShare of walks measured
Start where you can park, at a car park or on a minor road
85%
Pass a pub
35%
Pass a dog-waste bin
20%
Pass a public toilet
17%
Pass a drinking-water tap
2%
Pass a busy beauty spot
20%

Measured on 9 October 2026 from the map. How these figures are made

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Walks in Kent, for your dog

If you live in Kent, it is your home county, and every walk in it is free, for good. Tell the app what your dog finds hard and it shows you walks that suit, with anything that might stop you shown first.

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Anywhere in Great Britain, even with no signal.

Further is the Trekosa subscription: walks beyond your home county, and help on the walk itself. The OS Explorer map, 1:25,000, on any walk while you have signal. Press Offline on a walk and its map stays on your phone until you remove it, for when the signal goes. Drift off the path and you get a quiet buzz.

The first 250 households have it for good. After that, £4.99 a month or £34.99 a year.

What Further adds

Towns in Kent

What the walks near each of these are like, beside Kent as a whole, and how many pass the checks we run for five kinds of dog.

For your dog, town by town

Each town's walks, taken through the checks the app runs for one kind of dog: how many pass, and what stops the rest. The share is of every walk measured near each town.

For a nervous or reactive dog

For a dog scared of traffic

For a big dog, or two on the lead

For an older dog

For a short walk from the car

Where you may walk in Kent

In England you may walk on public rights of way, on open access land under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act, and in woodland the Forestry Commission opens to the public. We hold all three for Kent, and a walk that leaves them is refused before you ever see it.

We checked Kent for military live-firing ground and hold 3 areas of it: Lydd Ranges, Hythe Ranges Safety Zone and Hythe Ranges. A walk is checked against them before we show it.

Council dog rules in Kent

A council can make an order saying where dogs must be on a lead or are not allowed at all. We read each order itself rather than the web page about it, and we say where we have not. This is where each council in Kent stands.

Not yet mapped means the order exists and we cannot yet place its boundaries, so a walk there says the rules are unknown rather than absent.

An order about behaviour sets rules for how dogs are kept rather than where, so there is nothing to put on a map.

Every walk in Kent is checked against the same data as everywhere else we cover. See what we check and where it comes from.

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