The Wall
Welcome to Hadrian's Wall (the Wall), where you will begin your 90mi/145km journey following in the footsteps of the Roman Empire.
Beginning in Wallsend on the River Tyne and ending at Bowness-on-Solway, the Wall was a defensive fortification of the Roman Province of Brittania.
Construction began in 122AD, during the reign of Emperor Hadrian, marking the northernmost boundary that separated the Roman Empire from the Celts and the Picts. Hadrian's Wall was admitted to UNESCO World Heritage Site list in 1987.
As you take off from Wallsend, start your walk at Segedunum, the ancient remains of a Roman fort. Whilst little remains on site today, imagine that at its peak up to 600 Roman troops, a combination of cavalry and infantry, were garrisoned here. It is thought that the fort remained occupied until early 400AD when the Roman troops were withdrawn from Britain.
The fort was eventually demolished to make way for terrace houses in the late 1800s, which were then also demolished making way for what is left today and preserved as a historical site.
A small town of about 10,000 people, Wallsend is steeped in the history of shipbuilding and is best known for the shipyard that built RMS Mauritania, the express liner that kept the fastest Atlantic crossing record for 22 years and RMS Carpathia which rescued the Titanic survivors in 1912.
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This update was first written by Darren Wall
on Monday 21st Feb 2022.
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