Route of Hadrian’s Wall

• Hadrian's Wall is a 74 mile Roman defensive stone wall with Forts at intervals, built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian between 122-128 CE. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• The Wall runs east-west from the Irish Sea at Bowness-on-Solway to the North Sea at Wallsend, Newcastle.

The Route

• Forts (16)
  • Bowness-on-Solway Mais
  • Drumburgh Coggabata
  • Burgh-by-Sands Aballava
  • Stanwix Uxelodunum or Petriana
  • Castlesteads Camboglanna
  • Birdoswald Banna (Visitor Centre)
  • Carvoran Magnis (Roman Army Museum at Greenhead)
  • Great Chesters Aesica
  • Housesteads Vercovicium (Visitor Centre)
  • Carrowburgh Procolita
  • Chesters (Walwick Chesters) Cilurnum
    • Portgate – where Dere Street passed through the Wall.
  • Halton Chesters Hunnum
  • Rudchester Vindobala
  • Benwell Hill Condercum
  • Newcastle Pons Aelius (Great North Museum: Hancock)
  • Wallsend Segedunum (Visitor Centre)

• The Milecastles (80)
  • These existed between the Forts at one Roman mile intervals.
• The Turrets (158)
  • These are located one third of a Roman mile either side of the milecastles.

The Cumbrian Coast

• The Milecastles, but not the Wall, continue west around the Cumbrian Coast, dominated by the Fort at Maryport.

Roman Roads

• Military Way
  • This road ran behind Hadrian's Wall but was too narrow for wheeled vehicles.
• Stanegate
  • A main road for wheeled vehicles between Carlisle and Corbridge.
• Dere Street
  • The road passed through Hadrian's Wall at Portgate, via Corbridge.

Supply Forts behind the Wall

• South Shields
  • was supplied by ships travelling up the east coast.
• Maryport
  • was supplied by ships traveling along the west coast.
• Corbridge
  • was supplied by barges along the Tyne from South Shields. (Museum)

Towns behind the Wall

• Roman Towns that were connected by the Stanegate:
  • Carlisle
  • Corbridge

Stanegate

• The Stanegate Road runs parallel to Hadrian's Wall, but south of the rivers Eden and Tyne, whereas Hadrian's Wall runs north of these rivers.
• The Stanegate was 44 miles (71 km) long and ran between Carlisle and Corbridge.
  • Carlisle (Luguvalium) (Fort and Town)
    • with a Roman Road connecting to York
  • Brampton Old Church (Fort)
  • Castle Hill Boothby (Fortlet)
  • Nether Denton (Fort)
  • Throp (Fortlet)
  • Magnis (Carvoran) (Fort)
  • Haltwhistle Burn (Fortlet)
  • Vindolanda (Chesterholm) (Fort) (Visitor Centre)
  • Newbrough (Fortlet)
  • Corbridge (Corstopitum Fort and Town)
    • Junction with Dere Street