So, in the early centuries of AD, a wall was built in Northern England.  This wall defined the edge of the Roman Empire in Britain, a Roman Empire ruled by one Emperor Hadrian.  Hence the name.

Over 1800 years later, parts of that wall still exist – and are able to be discovered and walked along, on a long weekend escape from London, on a rare sunny day at the end of September.

We stopped at the Corbridge tourist office, picked up maps.  We asked for the best wall-walking spot, and were told to travel on – almost half-way across the country on – to Housestead’s Fort.  Again, as the name suggests, there was a fort there.  But the focus of the day was the wall: first finding the wall (unexpectedly difficult), climbing up onto the wall, walking along to wall for as long as we could, then next to it for a while, while it stretched out in front of us as far as we could see.

Tash