Restful Attic Room in Riverside Spot, Mytholmroyd

This is an attic room in a private house on the edge of Mytholmroyd, with the River Calder behind it and the Rochdale Canal towpath a few steps away. It is a homestay rather than a hotel: you get the attic bedroom and a small lobby of your own, with a fridge, kettle and tea things in it, and you share the house and its bathroom with the owner.

Dogs are welcome, and the arrangement that matters most is that the owner keeps a dog of her own. She is described as working around it rather than leaving guests to cope, telling them where her dog will be and when so the two need never meet. In a shared house that is a rare thing to find, and it makes this a better fit for a nervous or reactive dog than most homestays. She also works with dogs downstairs in the house, so the place is set up around them rather than merely tolerating them.

The setting is the other draw. The towpath runs straight from the door and it is a flat fifteen to twenty-five minute walk along the water into Hebden Bridge, with cafes and pubs at the far end. Mytholmroyd station is about ten minutes on foot on the Leeds to Manchester line. Between the two, this is one of the rare stays where a dog owner can leave the car parked for the whole trip.

Two things to plan for. The stairs are steep, and there are two flights of them up to the attic - guests raise this more often than anything else about the property. An older dog, a heavy dog or one with joint trouble will need carrying, and in a room reached this way that is a real consideration rather than a footnote. The road immediately outside is also busy, so the quiet here is at the back of the house by the river, not at the front door.

It suits owners of a small or medium dog that can handle stairs, and it suits a nervous or reactive dog unusually well, because the household actively manages whether the two dogs meet at all.