{"id":1953,"date":"2017-08-12T22:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T22:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenandjon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2025-06-11T19:35:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:35:44","slug":"hadrians-wall-housesteads-chesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hweb.uk\/?p=1953","title":{"rendered":"Hadrians Wall: Housesteads & Chesters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We were up in Newcastle for a long weekend and we decided to head up to Hadrians Wall for the day.  Weather wasn’t particularly brilliant but we had raincoats … or so we thought!  Callum announced that he had picked Dad’s jacket up by mistake so he didn’t have a coat.  We either needed to divert via a shop to get Callum a coat … or he could just wear Dad’s.  It was the latter option!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We headed North over the Tyne Bridge, picked up the A69 and headed West.<\/p>\n\n\n

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First stop of the day was at Housesteads Roman Fort<\/strong><\/a> which falls under both English Heritage and National Trust.   From the car park, it’s a half mile walk to reach the Roman Fort … and the rain really started to come down.  There’s a little museum by the fort and every man and dog headed in here to shelter from the rain … you could hardly move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end we carried on regardless and explored the fort.  The views were still pretty cool in spite of the rain.  The wall is actually pretty impressive – wide enough for two soldiers to march side-by-side.  The north and south gate houses were still evident as were other buildings, thanks to the descriptive panels dotted around.<\/p>\n\n\n

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