Walltown Crags - Hadrian's Wall

Built by the Roman Emporer Hadrian in AD 122, the remnants of this ancient wall stretches 73 miles from Wallsend-on-Tyne to Bowness-on-Solway. This is one of the finest places to see Hadrian's Wall, where it snakes and dives through dramatic countryside along the crags of the Whin Sill. Not only is the Wall itself especially well preserved here, but it also shows how the soldiers who built it coped with the presence of large outcrops of natural rock - sometimes incorporating it into the Wall, and sometimes almost butting up against it. At one end is Walltown turret, which unusually was first built as a free standing tower. Following the path from the NNP car park, there is a small climb to the site across uneven turf. The site is very exposed with no shelter. There is a Northumberland National Parks car park nearby. NNP charges apply. Farm livestock is likely to be present on the path.