Would you like to explore Hadrian’s Wall? This guidebook covers 15 of the best short walks in the area (between 4 and 11km), including Birdoswald, Sycamore Gap, Housesteads, Vindolanda and Sewingshields Crags.
Why choose this guidebook?
- Walks under three hours, plus one challenge route
- Easy to follow with clear route descriptions
- Facilities, parking and highlights for every route
- No specialist gear needed, walk all year round
- Ordnance Survey mapping
Cicerone’s Short Walks guidebooks contain everything you need to get outdoors and discover the best of an area. The routes are perfect if you’re new to walking or looking for something you can enjoy with the whole family. Let the adventures begin!
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Location of walks
Map key
Using this guide
Routes in this book
Clothing and footwear
Walk descriptions
Maps, GPX files and what3words
Walking with children
Dogs
Enjoying the countryside responsibly
Route summary table
Introduction
The building of Hadrian’s Wall
Walking in Hadrian’s Wall country
Bases and where to stay
Travel
The walks
1. Walton and Cam Beck
2. Lanercost Priory
3. Combcrag Gorge
4. Birdoswald and Gilsland Spa
5. Nine Nicks of Thirlwall
6. Great Chesters
7. Cawfield Crags
8. Winshield Crags
9. Sycamore Gap
10. Vindolanda and Barcombe Hill
11. Housesteads
12. Sewingshields Crags
13. Limestone Corner
14. Heavenfield
15. Portgate and Halton
Useful information
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Mark Richards’ transition from full-time farmer to full-time outdoor writer has been a gradual one. In 1973, with the direct encouragement of Alfred Wainwright, he wrote his first walking guide to the Cotswold Way. Since then he has indulged his pleasure in exploring rural Britain by creating a range of walking guides. In 1980 he began his three-part guide to the Peak District for Cicerone Press, and in 1987, with Chris Wright, wrote a guide to walking around the former county of Westmorland. This book sowed the seeds of a dream, to be fulfilled some 14 years later, when he and his wife moved to Cumbria. Here he developed a passion for the finest of all walking landscapes, held within and around this marvellous county. Mark has written a Cicerone guide to Great Mountain Days in the Lake District and, after many years of dedicated research, completed his Lakeland Fellranger series of eight guides covering the entire region in 2013. Now living in what was once the Barony of Gilsland, Mark is also close to Hadrian’s Wall, enabling him to renew a fascination first kindled when he prepared a guide to walking the Wall in 1993. He has also published a guide to the Wall for Cicerone.