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Hadrian's Wall Path
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Contents
Contents | Introduction | About Hadrian's Wall Path | Planning your walk | Using this guide | Sample route guide: Heddon-on-the-Wall to Chollerford
INTRODUCTION
PART 1: PLANNING YOUR WALK
About the Hadrian’s Wall Path
The history of the Wall 9 – The Romans in Britain 14 – Life in Roman
Britain 18 – How difficult is the Hadrian’s Wall Path? 20 – GPS 21
How long do you need? 22 – Some statistics 23
Practical information for the walker
Accommodation 24 – Food and drink 27 – Money 29 – Information for
foreign visitors 30 – Other services 31 – Walking companies 31
Budgeting 35
When to go
Seasons 36 – Rainfall 37 – Daylight hours 38 – Annual events 38
Itineraries
Suggested itineraries 39 – Which direction? 39 – Side trips 41 – Hadrian’s
Wall highlights 41 – Village and town facilities table 42 – Taking dogs
along the Hadrian’s Wall Path 44
What to take
Keep your luggage light 45 – How to carry it 45 – Footwear 46 – Clothes 47
Toiletries 47 – First-aid kit 48 – General items 48 – Camping gear 48
Money 48 – Hadrian’s Wall Passport 49 – Documents 49 – Maps 49
Recommended reading 50 – Sources of further information 52
Getting to and from the Hadrian’s Wall Path
National transport 53 – Getting to Britain 54 – Local transport 56
PART 2: THE ENVIRONMENT AND NATURE
Flora and fauna
Mammals 59 – Reptiles and fish 61 – Birds 61 – Trees 63 – Flowers 64
Conservation
Government agencies and schemes 65
PART 3: MINIMUM IMPACT AND OUTDOOR SAFETY
Minimum impact walking
Hadrian’s Wall Code of Respect 68 – Economic impact 68
Environmental impact 69 – Access 71
Outdoor safety
Avoidance of hazards 72 – Weather forecasts 73 – Blisters 73
Hypothermia, hyperthermia and sunburn 74
PART 4: NEWCASTLE
City guide
Arrival 75 – Transport 76 – Services 77 – Where to stay 77
Where to eat and drink 82 – Nightlife 85 – What to see and do 86
PART 5: ROUTE GUIDE AND MAPS
Using this guide
Trail maps 92
The trail guide: Wallsend to Bowness-on-Solway
Wallsend to Heddon-on-the-Wall 93
Segedunum 93 – Wylam 107 – Heddon-on-the-Wall 107
Heddon-on-the-Wall to Chollerford 108
East Wallhouses 114 – Wall 120 – Chollerford 122 – Chesters 124
The Corbridge–Hexham–Acomb alternative 125 (Corbridge 125,
Corbridge Roman Town/Corstopitum 130, Hexham 132, Acomb 136)
Chollerford to Steel Rigg (for Once Brewed) 138
Housesteads 148 – Once Brewed 152 – Vindolanda 155
Steel Rigg to Banks 156
Haltwhistle 160 – Greenhead 166 – Gilsland 167 – Birdoswald 172
Banks 174
Banks to Carlisle 174
Walton 175 – Brampton 179 – Crosby-on-Eden 183 – Carlisle 188
Carlisle to Bowness-on-Solway 193
Burgh-by-Sands 196 – Boustead Hill 198 – Drumburgh 200
Port Carlisle 204 – Bowness-on-Solway 205
Map key 207
APPENDICES
A: Glossary 208
B: GPS waypoints list 209
C: Bus timetables 212
INDEX 214
Hadrian's Wall Path
Excerpts:
- Contents
- Introduction
- About Hadrian's Wall Path
- Planning your walk
- Using this guide
- Sample route guide: Heddon-on-the-Wall to Chollerford
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