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1 Dinnington Burradon A696 Prestwick A186 A1056 A GUIDE FOR WALKERS, VISITORS AND LOCAL PEOPLE ShirShiemoorremoor Newcastle Airport Park A189

Medburn High Callerton Callerton The Hadrian’s Wall Path National Trail of steep river valleys. Many of the most The distance covered is Parkway Palmersville (opened in 2003) avoids the actual line important archaeological discoveries about A19 around 12 miles (19km), just Kingston A191 of Hadrian’s Wall through the urban areas the Wall in recent times have been made Park Road about walkable in a day, A696 Benton of Tyneside, instead taking a riverside route in excavations in urban Tyneside, and the Bank Longbenton Foot Regent Four Lane Ends although most walkers Centre for the 12 miles between the eastern end area contains three of the major garrison will prefer to break the South of the Wall at and Heddon-on- forts of Hadrian’s Wall. This guide offers a A191 Ilford Gosforth journey in Newcastle. HEDDON-ON- Road Willington the-Wall. safe and practical route which runs as close THE-WALL A69 A188 A1058 as possible to the sites of these discoveries A189 Hadrian Visitors and residents with a real WALLSEND Road and the actual line of the Wall. 6 A1 West HEATON A193 archaeological interest in the Wall will want Wallsend1 A191 A167 to follow the actual route the Wall took, Chillingham and there are good reasons for doing so. 5 Road A187 The Wall has left its legacy in the street plan A6085 NEWCASTLE Walker 4 A193 Hebburn A186 UPON TYNE of Newcastle, especially the straight West Wylam RYTON Byker Manors Station 2 Road out of the city, and Shields Road in Newcastle the eastern suburb of Byker. Although the A185 3 Monkton Roman remains are mostly invisible beneath BLAYDON A1 A695 the modern streetscape, there are places MetroCentre A1114 Gateshead Greenside A184 Stadium where they can be seen, and there is much Dunston Felling

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This walk covers the eastern 12 miles of three hundred years, until lost control Hadrian’s Wall, built across the 73 miles between of Britain in the early fifth century. Tyne and Solway in AD 122-4. Hadrian’s Wall was originally inscribed as a WALKERS PLEASE NOTE World Heritage Site in 1987. Today, Hadrian’s Wall is part of the transnational Frontiers Traditionally the Wall is described from E to W. The Wall was started to a width of 10 Roman At every Roman mile was a small fort which of the World Heritage Site, Many modern day Wall-walkers travel from W Feet (RF) (3m) and was originally some functioned as a fortified gateway through inscribed in 2005 and currently comprising to E, so the guide is organised as a series of stages 20 feet (6m high), almost certainly with a the Wall - a ‘’. Between every Hadrian’s Wall, the German (frontier which can be read in reverse, from W to E, as well as from E to W. walkway and battlements along the top. The two were two towers (‘turrets’). line) and the in . Sometimes more detailed directions are given where the route might be difficult to 10 foot wide ‘Broad Wall’ only occurs W of Major garrison forts, for full follow through the urban landscape: in these cases the directions are given twice, first Newcastle. Between Newcastle and Wallsend units, also occur along the Wall, some 15 in E-W then W-E. the Wall is narrow (2.4m wide) - this stretch all. In our stretch there are three: Wallsend, The milecastles are numbered from E to W, and the turrets in each Wall-mile have was a slightly later addition. 6m (20RF) Newcastle and , each of which had a the number of the preceding Milecastle with the suffixes A and B. So, for example, in front of the Wall ran a great V-shaped civilian settlement () outside its walls. between Milecastles 48 and 49, we find Turrets 48A and 48B. Note however that Wall-forts, milecastles and turrets. Along this ditch, generally over 8m wide and up to 3m not all positions of milecastles in Tyneside are known with certainty; where the To the rear of the Wall (but not E of corridor, between the Wall and the , deep. The wide space between the Wall position is described as ‘probable’, it means that the actual structure has never been Newcastle), was a linear earthwork, the so- there ran a Roman road, the main means of and its ditch was a deliberate measure to discovered. No has been reliably seen in the whole 7-mile stretch from Wallsend called Vallum. This was a flat-bottomed ditch, communication and supply, known as ‘the provide space for extra obstacles - sharpened to Denton, W of Newcastle. In some areas, particularly in , 6m wide and 3m deep, with a substantially Military Way’. Apart from a brief period in AD branches set in pits - a previously unknown the line taken by the Wall is still not known, and will only be discovered by future built mound to either side. This formidable 140-60 when the Romans advanced to the element of the Wall, seen for the first time in archaeological research. obstacle demarcated and presumably secured Antonine Wall in Scotland, Hadrian’s Wall was recent years in excavations on Tyneside. the southern edge of the military zone of the continuously held by the Roman army for

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Immediately W of Wallsend fort, in an area of the Roman fort park just N of Buddle Street, is an excavated stretch of Hadrian’s At Union Rd (E end of Shields Rd) the piece Top left: Wall and obstacles under Wall 33m long and, set just to the S of it, of Hadrian’s Wall displayed outside the excavation in 2000 a reconstructed length of the Wall giving E wall of the cycle shop is not real and is Top middle: Wall displayed at Library/Pool forecourt, Shields Road a good impression of its probable original about 20m N of the true line. Top right: How the Wall and its appearance. A further 50m of the Wall Follow S side of Shields Road (B1312). frontal obstacles may have looked excavated in 1998-9, showing impressive Above: Stukeley’s view taken from the The Wall runs under the shops on the S evidence of collapse and rebuilding in the site of the roundabout looking along side of Shields Rd - see a displayed section Roman period, was being prepared for what is now Shields Road in 1723 Left: same view as it would have of the Wall foundation excavated in 2000 display at the time of writing. appeared in Roman times at the Library/Pool forecourt. The discs in the pavement to the N mark the positions getting through the ouseburn valley From E to W the walking route goes straight Milecastle 2 was probably in the vicinity of Reconstructed of a defensive system of timber obstacles OUSEBURN VALLEY E TO W: turn L at Superstore, cross A193 by Kentucky on at the roundabouts and follows: Buddle Tunstall Avenue, W of the Brough Park dog Wall at Buddle in the space between the Wall and Ditch Fried Chicken (pedestrian crossing), and then follow A193 W; turn L at E end of Byker Street St (A186) - Neptune Rd (A186) - Maurice Rd racing track (S side). The N face of the Wall found here for the first time in 2000. Bridge to descend via the Arms into the Ouseburn Valley. Cross the river (A186) - Fossway (A187). For a mile W of has been seen under the fence just S of the The next major feature is the Ouseburn just L of the farm. From the Ship , leave the valley by Stepney Bank. Wallsend fort the Wall runs under buildings pavement between Brough Park and Valley (where the Wall crossed the burn to the N of this route, converging with the Tunstall Avenue. OUSEBURN VALLEY W TO E descend Stepney Bank into the Ouseburn valley. near the Ouseburn Farm). Milecastle 3 lay Fossway just W of Miller’s Dene recreation Pass the Ship pub on L and cross the river just R of the farm. Climb up via the At the W end of Fossway and the E end of in the vicinity of the BP station on the E ground, probable site of Milecastle 1. Just Cumberland Arms on E side of Valley to cross over the main A193 (pedestrian crossing Shields Road the big roundabout at Byker side of the valley at E end of Shields Road, W of the pub (S side) the Wall-line near Kentucky Fried Chicken. Bear to the R of the BP station to Morrisons Superstore Hill is the probable site of Turret 2A. Cross and appears in a drawing of 1723 by the is indicated in the pavement on N side as it at W end of Shields Road. via the Shell petrol station. antiquary Stukeley. converges with Fossway.

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A R u B Budd g ne B Mi 7 e t l I d e r c H M the Wall might have continued to follow thec railway 13 Road u r ha c a E r o e 0 l a S e T b k l's l- d e C i l R B 1 r O 05 e m e G oad T 0 og o D o s A TSW r M A S OAD A BRI 18 entranceR of All Saints Churchyard. Descend Silver St to street4 6 sign ‘Red Barns’, where the w T R t t N S MAIN 1 D R O u N 1 t N O GE e 6 D S n S oa g g s B S S B r R S t K A TR E k OA l t Y S a R E Blaydon N D l r R OldE Benwell R B ee d n oad E t B6317 T W T e AD A O t e o nc a d E CO o S CITY R B AD r L i B C o ho va L B1311 CORPORATION t t 6 mm a e A69 viaduct, keeping to hight ground. An alternativea route h 1 8 o W er 5 c W A L 1 ial d oul A d ow 3 R O 15 r B d N A L t t 0 A l L oad 3 6 a e t a I n 6 ishe 08 E 6 en a S 7 H t R f e Trinityor e Square. Ascend the steps to them L to the Town Wall was found in 1981. Oppositey here g BLA o 5 9 n e 0 atio Stre B in Y 9 5 B r A D K 5 D e t e ' O 6 S r 60 s A 1 Way R N k R t B N A r n R H a D o S C I oad G HWAY P lies to the S, basedER on supposed sightings of the Wall t r ITY RD O O y e d I n W et D ROAD a R 5 tre A Q R i eptre S 69 g O 9 a W reet T k E Sc Cl 5n A u o E N D Wall Corner Tower. Cross City Rd at the pedestrian find Stepney Bank for the descent East Gateshead g i a K St S d N y A6 R S A C a A NE o s T O B T r D i A I A6 T H 13 G d A H LA e e n S 95 S 1 R L 1 an to WO A A A b S R 3 r St Lawrence e T O T v am E E A U e 6 i y 1 L L O S R L LA C D R n n G 8 n L D D E y t 8 r into the Ouseburn. 1 crossing, keep to the higher route to the L and after H I R L u O H a e H e END A R Arm 5 A H A 9 i A S O stron I L rb g D g D ICT Road A 0 e A 3 E l i E h 1 D TER l l St Nicholas Millennium D n D i I 1 RA R l 6 D A1 V R C St Mary’s I in S N E O B STMO S u k A 6 Blaydon Burn O M 8 S t O Y Bridge n 8 L E Cathedral r O B A n 6 7er Street E e Wharri A A 1 Cathedral U t R 200m take a sharpe L backtrack up steps at Causey T e e yne W ET Q tr Ma 7 D W E The Black Gate S R i I A t n 1 D R D n Roa D n d T OA O 63 E S OOD R Pe Friars Goose G L W A 6 d B 5 D L & Castle Keep TS d I O Gateshead 1 A A SC 8 R V D E a A E 1 1 1 ROA N t n o ICK D 9 O 63 1 ELSW 4 Newcastle LL e W 4 Gateshead A B 1 I e 8 so R 1 Newcastle A l l R 1 r oad A S H S l L D t K 6 T t R 8 ei e E 5 N A1 S Central N r A1 Walk route Mainline rail station 0 510 15 A Wa R Interchange Bewes Hills s NI A e N w PONS AELII R O ' 8 S 1 e e O n n s A S d G RA C t 67 t d D 1 h a a B o e H e Stella Wood B N R o Be o B orge ou A 6 I e d OL r R J n r 3 e n h h a i K l I S r t d 1 r s t c o LW d u A g t 7 b s T S h m a u S S e r er A Ro e n o est S S la Wall Rapid transport station G W t ' s t Lan r et w S ST k ki r A t G r e r S enc o e w e Ro Y e a a ve APPROX WALKING TIME IN MINUTES t SE et H d O All Saints Church W Newcastle S L St Peter's hite Roa C T Path Head Wood hous 9 T B O S E BENWELLeR 1 a E o College 8 F a lt TR a Fort / POI Bus interchange d 1 0 O 3 k S Roman Templed 0 w m P 6 R 0 IN A B1 T e A B Buddle a H 7 e a M 13 Road r 0 l S k l- d COT 05 T B 0 o 11 B SW A 6 RID O R S N 1 w T G OD oa g s E S R K B S TRE Blaydon OAD Y S a R 10 E E d t oad T A e A69 W 5 W BL 5 A69 IL AY 9 5 A D DO A6 R N A HI D G HWAY ER RD O W 5 d A6 9 a W eet R E 95 o E r East Gateshead N A6 R SK St A T Approximate walking time A I A6 H n 95 A A bto R U 1 Lam O C G Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database rights 2015 rn 8 u H H H 9 rb i A g ICT A e Map designed by Oxford CartographersD 98045 E&OE n h 1 I V R R in N u k S 6 Blaydon Burn O O n S t B n r 7 e A A t R e T tre e yne Ma D S i I t n D D nn Roa D OOD R OA Pe d Friars Goose 5 G OTSW Gateshead d A SC R 1 E 63 1 4 n B 14 8 Gateshead so 11 l A S t ei r A1 Wa Interchange Bewes Hills e N e t t ad e o r R n S ur t b r er e nn et Ski ROMAN NEWCASTLE

The best view of the layout of Roman built. Possibly the Tyne crossing was guarded In the paving around the keep the outlines of Wall-walkers visiting Newcastle should not Newcastle is obtained from the top of the by a pre-existing fort at Gateshead on the some of the Roman buildings (headquarters miss the Great North Museum: Hancock, Norman castle keep of c.1175. Both the south side of the river; there was certainly building, commanding officer’s house and one mile N of the Castle Garth, in the granaries) have been marked out in cobble Norman Castle and the Roman fort beneath Roman settlement there, found in the University area (nearest Metro station: Below: Plan of it stood on a tongue of land high above the 1990s on the site of the Hilton Hotel which stones. The unit attested at Newcastle in Haymarket). Admission is free and the Newcastle fort river. The across the Tyne, the dominates the view on the Gateshead side. AD 213 was the First Cohort of Cugerni museum contains the most important Right: Roman Pons Aelius, ‘Hadrian’s Bridge’, which gives A small fort was added on the Newcastle (originally recruited in northern Germany). collection of inscribed and sculptured stones buildings from top of keep Newcastle its Roman name, lay on the site side in the late-second or early-third century. The fort was occupied into the early years of and other finds from Hadrian’s Wall of the small Swing Bridge, just W of the This lies directly beneath the Castle Garth the fifth century. www.greatnorthmuseum.org.uk elevated Tyne Bridge. There was no Roman and has been partly excavated, but its plan is fort at Newcastle when the Wall was first only known in disconnected fragments. Newcastle was the original starting point for Hadrian’s Wall (the length of narrower wall Left: View from Castle Keep to site of Roman bridge running E to Wallsend being an addition). Below: The Roman bridge at Newcastle All the way from Newcastle W to Heddon- probably had an elegant arched structure on-the-Wall, the Wall, where its width has Inscription from like this excavated bridge at Chesters, on been measured, is to the original 10 foot Hadrian’s Wall © English Heritage the Roman bridge broad width. Presumably the Broad Wall at Newcastle originally started at the Roman bridge, but (courtesy Society of Antiquaries of the route by which it descended from the Newcastle upon Tyne high ground where the Castle stands to the and Great North Museum: Hancock). river below is unknown. The nearest sighting of the Wall has been at Cooper’s Studios, 140m W of the Castle Keep.

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n s A S G C ad RA D 1 h B o e H Stella Wood B N R Ben B o orge ou 6 I e d OL A J n r 3 e h h la I i K t d 1 r s 7 t c o LW A g d T S h m a u S S e A Ro o G est t St las W r ' S s Law S k r A t G r e ST r enc o e w e Ro Y e a a ve t SE et H d O W Newcastle S L St Peter's hiteh Roa C T Path Head Wood ouse 9 T B O S E R College 8 13 a a RE o F lt T ad d 1 00 O k m S P 6 R 0 w IN A B1 T e A B Buddle a H 7 e a M 13 Road r 0 l S k B l- d B COTSW 05 T A 60 o RID O R S N 1 w T G OD oa g s E S R K B S TRE Blaydon OAD Y S a R E d t oad E T A e A69 W 5 W BL 5 A69 IL AY 9 5 A D DO A6 R N A HI D G HWAY ER RD O W 5 d A6 9 a W eet R E 95 o E r East Gateshead N A6 R SK St A T A I A6 H n 95 A A bto R U 1 Lam O C G rn 8 u Hi H H 9 rb A g ICT A e D n h 1 I V R R in N u k S 6 Blaydon Burn O O n S t B n r 7 e A A t R e T tre e yne Ma D S i I t n D D nn Roa D OOD ROA Pe d Friars Goose 5 G OTSW Gateshead d A SC R 1 E 63 1 4 n B 14 8 Gateshead so 11 l A S t ei r A1 Wa Interchange Bewes Hills e N e t t ad e o r R n S ur t b r er e nn et Ski GETTING BETWEEN BENWELL AND MILECASTLE 9

Between Turret 7B and Milecastle 9 the line of the eighteenth century Military Road and the remains of the Wall were E TO W: From Turret 7B walk W towards Cross the A69 by the second footbridge W to E: Walking E from Milecastle 9, take the steps At ‘the Ramparts’ a detour S along Southway leads to heavily disturbed by the E-W A69 dual the A1 bypass roundabout and negotiate and turn W along Roman Way. Having on the N side of the road immediately after the bus Wallington Drive (second R) where there is a preserved carriageway, built in the 1970s. Just W the subway/bridge to cross the A1. Take made a slight change of alignment at shelter on the R. The steps lead to a footbridge crossing stretch of the Vallum, with crossings, inserted later in of Turret 7B the line of the Wall is also the L fork at the end of the bridge to the footbridge the Wall lay under the S the A69 and rejoining the line of the Wall at ‘the the Roman period, visible. emerge on the S side of the A69 heading verge of Roman Way but has probably Chesters’. Turn R to follow the line of the Wall along crossed by the A1 Newcastle bypass, At the A1 bypass roundabout negotiate the subway/ W, where a further stretch of Broad Wall is been entirely destroyed by the insertion Westlands, and at the roundabout cross Hillhead Rd opened in 1990. Although the bypass bridge to cross the A1. Take the R fork at the end of displayed. From here the course of the Wall of the dual carriageway. Reaching the and continue straight on along ‘Roman Way’. The Wall destroyed a length of the Wall and the the bridge to emerge on the S side of the A69 heading runs obliquely across the A69, reaching the roundabout at the top of the hill continue lay under the S verge of Westlands/Roman Way but Vallum, these were recorded in a rescue E, where you will immediately find a well-preserved other side at the W of the two footbridges. straight on across Hillhead Road and along has probably been entirely destroyed by the insertion excavation and fully published. stretch of Broad Wall and Turret 7B. Milecastle 8 lay halfway between the two Westlands. At the end of Westlands (with of the dual carriageway. At the first footbridge the Wall footbridges, its site now under the S track of ‘The Chesters’ to the R) turn L onto the made a slight change of alignment to run obliquely the dual carriageway. It guarded the Sugely footbridge across the A69. This comes across the A69, reaching the S side at the E of the two Burn, which the Wall crossed by means of a out opposite a bus stop. Cross the road footbridges. Milecastle 8 lay halfway between the two Denton Turret 7B stone culvert. and turn R to find the site of Milecastle footbridges, its site now under the S track of the dual 9, a faint mound in the field just short of carriageway. It guarded the Sugely Burn, which the At ‘the Ramparts’ a detour S along Blucher village. You now rejoin the line of Wall crossed by means of a stone culvert. Cross the Southway leads to Wallington Drive (second the 18th-century Military Road on top of the W footbridge and head E along the S side of the A69. R) where there is a preserved stretch of the Wall which can be followed all the way to After the E footbridge a stretch of Broad Wall Vallum, with crossings, inserted later in the Heddon-on-the-Wall. is displayed. Roman period, visible. Site of Milecastle 9 (Blucher village)

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This booklet is intended as a simple guide to Nick Hodgson (ed), Hadrian’s Wall 1999 – Graffiti on samian ware a walking route and to point out the main 2009: a summary of recent excavation and from Benwell - inscribed with names Julius visible and buried Roman remains along the research (Kendal, 2009) and Januarius way. For more background and information G.R.B. Spain, F.G. Simpson, and on individual sites, see the following list. R.C. Bosanquet, ‘The Roman Frontier from Wallsend to Rudchester Burn’, in GUIDE TO FURTHER INFORMATION Northumberland County History vol. XIII, AND READING (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1930) 484-564 Paul Bidwell, Hadrian’s Wall 1989–1999: a An Archaeological Map of Hadrian’s Wall summary of recent excavations and research (English Heritage, revised edition, 2014) (Carlisle, 1999) David Breeze, Handbook to the Roman Wall (14th edn, Society of Antiquaries of The village of Heddon is the point where walkers from W-E decide whether to follow Newcastle upon Tyne, 2006) the Hadrian’s Wall National Trail down to the river Tyne or whether to follow the David Breeze and Brian Dobson, route along the actual line of the Wall through the urban areas offered in this guide. Hadrian’s Wall (4th edn, , 2000) key to maps Walkers from E to W should turn L onto Towne Gate from the W end of the displayed Anthony Burton, Hadrian’s Wall Path: Walkwalk route route Mainlinemainline rail ra stationil stations 0 510 15 Wall, turn R just before the Women’s Institute and follow a track down to where National Trail Guide (London, 2016) Wallwall Rapidmetro transportstations station Towne Gate meets the Hexham Road. Take the B6138 running behind the Three Tuns David Heslop, ‘The Roman Imperial Frontier’, fort/point (signposted Harlow Hill) to follow the National Trail westwards. in Graves, C.P. and Heslop, D., Newcastle BENWELL Fort / POI Busbus interchangeinterchange Roman Temple of interest upon Tyne, The Eye of the North: An Remains of Vallum running behind Wall at Heddon looking W Archaeological Assessment (Oxford, 2013), Photographs on cover background and pages 3-5, 7, 9, 11-13, 18-20, 22 by Graeme Peacock 31-64 Text by Nick Hodgson Design by r//evolution Approximate walking time 23 22 Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database rights 2015 Map designed by Oxford Cartographers 98045 E&OE Acknowledgements

This guide has been made possible by research carried out by local residents as part of the community archaeology project, WallQuest: Hadrian’s Wall and its legacy on Tyneside, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Make Your Mark, the Esmé Fairbairn Foundation, the Sir James Knott Trust, the Banks Community fund, the Earthwatch Institute, and the R.W. Mann Trust. Volunteers of the Hadrian’s Wall Community Champions project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, have trialled the route and help turn the research into a practical guide.

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