Hadrian's wall walk map

Nearly two thousand years ago, for reasons still debated, the emperor Hadrian visited Britain and made a decision.

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In AD122, he ordered a wall be constructed between the banks of the River Tyne near the east coast to the Solway estuary in the west.

The wall took six years to build, and its forts and milecastles stayed occupied until the Romans left Britain three hundred years later.

People have been quietly pulling it to pieces ever since, using the stone to construct everything from churches and monasteries to the Military Road that runs alongside.

Despite their best efforts, though, over ten miles of the ancient wall still remains in small and large chunks dotted across the country.

2003 saw the opening of the Hadrian’s Wall Path, which largely follows the original route of the wall and its accompanying defenses from one coast to the other.

I once lived in London for a few years, but I was a much lazier person back then.

Long-distance hiking would have been the last thing on my mind, and as a result, I’d never done it in the UK. With a summer trip around Britain already plann

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