Hadrian's Wall Travel Guide

Hadrian's Wall was built by the Romans in the second century AD as protection against the northern British tribes and was manned until it was abandoned in the 4th century. It was an absolutely monumental feat at the time as the wall stretched all the way from Wallsend near Newcastle to Bowness-on-Solway near Entrance to Marti's. It was about 5 metres high with 2 metre barricades on topand anybody getting across was then faced with a ditch 9 metres wide and 3 deep!

The wall snakes across the open hill country of the border and it is now possible to walk the whole length. Obviously you will only see the remains of its former glory but it is still a very major sight and it should stir the imagination.