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Type:
Walking / Hiking
Price from:
330 GBP /person
Phone:
017687 72335
Payment Types:
  • No Cash
  • No Credit Card
  • No Cheque
  • No Travellers cheque
  • No Paypal
  • No Wire Transfer
Duration:
8 days
Location Start:
Wallsend
Location Finish:
Bowness on Solway
We Speak:
Dutch, English
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Last updated: 11/03/2006

Walk Hadrian's Wall - the historic frontier of Roman Britain.

Itinerary

Day 1

Travel to Wallsend for your first night's accommodation

Day 2

Wallsend to Newburn
The walk starts in Wallsend in Newcastle upon Tyne, on the site of Segedunum, a fort with a good museum. It follows the River Tyne into the city to the redeveloped central quayside, centred on the ‘Blinking Eye' Millennium Bridge, which leads to the Baltic arts centre and distinct Sage Building. The route continues besides the river to Newburn and Newburn on the outskirts of Newcastle.

Day 3

Newburn to Chollerford The route continues pleasantly through the Tyne Valley Country Park before climbing to the hilltop village of Heddon and onwards through rolling countryside .Turrets and milecastles become part of the landscape.

Day 4

Chollerford To Twice Brewed
The route soon reaches Northumbria National Park and classic Roman Wall country : expansive views and undulating moorland. The route climbs steadily at first, past turrets, and Brocolitia Roman fort, then becomes more steeply undulating on reaching the Whin Sill escarpment.

Day 5

Twice Brewed to GilslandTwice Brewed is a good place to schedule in a rest day, so you have time to explore the Vindolandanda or Housesteads Roman forts. The route continues to follow the escarpment, over rugged crags of Windshield, equally as impressive of the previous section. It passes the remains of Great Chesters fort and the Roman army museum,, and continues to the pretty villages of Greenhead and Gilsland.

Day 6

Gilsland to CarlisleJust after Gilsland the fort of Birdoswald is reached, after which the route continues high above the steep sided Irthington Gorge, before beginning a gradual descent at the village of Banks. Rich agricultural landscape and parkland replaces the moorland as the route drops steadily through the villages of Walton and Irthington, before reaching the River Eden for the final section into the historic border city of Carlisle. Carlisle's history is very much evident with its cathedral, castle and old city walls.

Day 7

Carlisle to Bowness on Solway.The final section is a complete contrast to all that has gone before : initially along the banks of the Eden and then across the pancake-flat salt marshes of the Solway Firth. The mountains of the Lake District visible to the south and Scotland is just across the water to the north.

Day 8

Depart after breakfast

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