Archaeological sites · North East England
Hadrian's Wall: walking the Roman frontier
73 miles of Roman engineering, from Wallsend to Bowness-on-Solway.
Hadrian's Wall was begun in 122 AD on the orders of the emperor Hadrian to mark the northern limit of the Roman Empire. Most of it still stands. You can walk the entire 73-mile Hadrian's Wall Path in 6-8 days, or visit the most photogenic stretches (Sycamore Gap, Housesteads, Vindolanda) by car in a long weekend.
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