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For those that don't know the Roman Emperor Hadrian had a wall build across England from Wallsend, Newcastle to Bowness on Solway near Carlise, basically coast to coast. This was in 122AD. Large parts of the wall had been recycled foundations for roads, churches and many houses till the end of the 1700's when a gentleman called Clayton decided that what was left should be kept.
He owned a property with a large fort on it, Chesters, and as various sections of the wall became available for purchase he bought them. Rebuilding the wall in several places. Later on his son gambled most of the property away again but by then the rest of the country had caught up with his thinking and it had become a national monument.
So although there are only sections of the wall to be seen, almost all the defensive ditch and roman road are visible along the walk.
The most amazing thing for me was that just about the entire walk is carried out though farms, all privately owned. Of the 85miles, 140kms there would have been less than 2 or 3 miles beside the road. We definitely got to see a large section of England that you don't see when driving.
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