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We
have two World Heritage Sites in Northumbria, Hadrian's Wall and Durham
Cathedral and Castle. The remains of Hadrian's Wall still winds its way
across Britain with Roman forts at Housesteads, Vindolanda, Chesters between
Chollerford and Greenhead.
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Wallsend on Tyne as the name states
is the east end of Hadrian's Wall with a piece of wall being in the Swan Hunter
Shipyard on the river side. On demolishing the shipyard workers terraced home
recently the remains of a Roman Settlement were found. SEGEDUNUM Roman
Fort, Baths & Museum is now fully excavated and open to view along with a
reconstructed piece of wall as it would have been in AD 410 when the Romans
withdrew and returned to Rome. This site is easily accessed from the Tyneside,
Metro Rapid Transit system.
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Northumbria
has many castles and strongholds Alnwick,
Bamburgh, Chillingham, Durham and Raby Castles are just a few of the reminders
of the Border warfare of the past.
The Romans occupied
Britain for 400 years building a wall to stop the un beatable Scot’s making
the Northumbrian hills into the Border of their mighty empire. Emperor Hadrian
ordered the building of a wall across the country from the Tyne to the Solway in
122 AD separating the Britons from the Picts.
The tribe of people
known as "Scots" came to Britain from Ireland, hundreds of years after
the Romans returned to Rome. In Roman times, the area now called Scotland was
populated by "Picts".
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Built in stone and some 73 miles long and 5 metres high it was a great feat of
engineering and the Roman Empire. There are also many forts, museums, temples
and other remains of the Wall in Northumberland the best being between Hexham
and Haltwhistle on the north side of the Tyne valley.
Along the aptly named
Military Road from Chollerford to Greenhead, from which the buried remains are
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Chollerford
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Chester's Roman Fort
A Roman Cavalry Fort built to accommodate 500 men. Located near the north Tyne
and has a bath house with a sauna and flushing toilets. The visitor’s centre
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Once Brewed
Housesteads
Roman Fort
North of Bardon Mill,
the walls of a complete Roman Fort, actually on Hadrian's Wall , visible are a
hospital and flushing latrines The museum Visitor’s Centre make this an ideal
stop to view the majestic border scenery from the wall.
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Roman
Vindolanda
Also near Bardon Mill and Housesteads, this Fort and civilian settlement has a
full size reconstruction of a section of Hadrian's Wall and Roman temple with a
museum with rare Roman writing instruments leathers, textiles, pottery
artifacts. The shop and country restaurant are facilities worthy of an extended
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Greenhead
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Roman
Army Museum
Near Greenhead there is a museum of Roman Military life with life size models
and audio-visual shows, it provides a unique insight into the daily life of a
Roman soldier based on Hadrian's Wall. |
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Hadrian's Wall Bus
Runs from Hexham to Carlisle stopping
at all the Roman Sites along the Wall, ideal for Back Packers to access the out
of the way places. Tel: 01434-344-777
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