Hadarians Wall

Start: Wallsend - Grid Ref: NZ 302658
End: Bowness-on-Solway - Grid Ref: NY 226627

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The route heads west from Wallsend near Newcastle-upon-Tyne and, for a majority of its distance, follows the line of the Roman Hadrian's Wall across the northern border of England to the Solway Firth.
The Wall has been designated a World Heritage Site, the walk passes through the Northumberland National Park and the Solway Coast Area.

The official guide breaks the route into sections starting at Wallsend, Heddon-on-the-Wall, Chollerford, Steel Rigg, Walton, Carlisle and finishing at Bowness-on-Solway, making the walk a six day hike. Apart from the absorbing history of the Wall, Hadrian and the Roman occupation, the journey offers diverse and often spectacular landscapes. Starting amidst the urban bustle of Tyneside the walker is soon transported to wild and beautiful scenery where solitude can be found in which to quietly reflect on nature and human history. The walk finishes in the very different landscape, a wetland of remote saltmarsh and mudflats teeming with wildfowl on the Solway Firth.

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