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Togston Barns Boarding Kennels

Togston Barns Boarding Kennels is licensed by Northumberland County Council for dog boarding. The council's most recent inspection awarded it 5 stars out of 5.

Its licence runs to 31 March 2029. Longer licence terms are awarded to higher-rated operators, which is why a distant expiry date is usually a good sign in itself.

On its own website the business describes itself as: "Dog daycare & boarding in Alnwick | First aid trained, 15 years’ experience | Book your dog’s stay today →" We reproduce that as a summary of what it says about itself, not as anything we have checked.

Its site advertises dog day care.

We found no entry for this business on the ICO register of fee payers. That is common for sole traders and is not necessarily a failing, but a business holding your address and door key would normally be expected to be registered.

Under the star rating scheme a 5-star operator qualifies for a licence of up to 3 years and correspondingly fewer unannounced inspections, so the rating affects how often the council will look in as well as what it thought at the last visit.

Northumberland County Council does not publish an address for this licence. That is standard for businesses operating from a residential address and does not indicate anything about the business — contact details are usually on its own website or through the council.

We read 7 pages of its website on 2 August 2026, about 1,888 words in total, and extracted 5 details from them.

We last read Northumberland County Council's register 4 months ago, so treat the expiry date in particular as indicative rather than current.

Licence record

From its own website

Contact details from its website

Questions and answers

Answers marked from their website are the business's own words. Answers marked from published details are assembled from facts stated on their site. Answers marked summarised were written from their site's text and checked so that every figure appears in the original — but they are a summary, not a quotation, and the business's own site is authoritative.

How do I contact Togston Barns Boarding Kennels?

Its website lists contact by phone on 07359032342 and by email at lowhockettdoggiedaycare@gmail.com.
From published details — source

Is a deposit required?

According to its website: “Boarding bookings may require a deposit to secure dates.”
From published details — source

What vaccinations does my pet need?

According to its website: “Dogs must be fully vaccinated.”
From published details — source

What is provided in the kennels?

Cosy bedding, toys, and individual heated kennels.
Summarised from their website

What type of care do the staff provide?

Individual attention from K9 behavioural trained staff.
Summarised from their website

What activities do the dogs get?

Socialisation, exercise, and professional care.
Summarised from their website

Where are the kennels located?

In the Northumberland countryside near Alnwick.
Summarised from their website

This page reproduces factual entries from public registers. It is not a review, a recommendation, or an endorsement, and we have no commercial relationship with the businesses listed. Council star ratings are the licensing authority's assessment of risk and compliance, not a measure of service quality. If anything here is wrong or you would like your entry removed, see our privacy page — we act on requests without argument.

Where these figures come from

Last updated

1 April 2026

• Local authority animal activity licence registers — English local authorities. Factual fields extracted from each council's published public register: trading name, licence number, licensable activity, star rating and expiry date. Where a council redacts an address — as they routinely do for home boarders operating from a residential address — the record is kept without a location and never geolocated by inference. Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0. Refreshed 1 August 2026.
• Operators' own public websites — The licensed businesses themselves. Factual metadata — description, opening hours, contact details and advertised services — extracted from each operator's own public website. robots.txt is checked and obeyed before every fetch, requests are rate-limited to one per host per run, and every field links back to the page it came from with the date we last checked. Claims operators make about themselves are not verified by us. Licence: Summarised, not reproduced. Refreshed 1 August 2026.
• Licence details are republished from the Northumberland County Council public register under the Open Government Licence.
• Companies House and ICO entries are matched by trading name and corroborated by location; unconfirmed matches are not published.