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Sunrise at Hadrian's Wall this morning in Northumberland 🏴 Had this shot in mind for a while but you never know what will happen at sunrise time - struck lucky on this occasion - what a spot to see the day break and the sun rise on the horizon 🙌 It's well worth making the effort to see natures greatest light show. Hadrians Wall was built around 2000 years ago at the edge of the Roman Empire. The wall isn't as high as it once was - but a lot of it is still visible and it's a great place to hike - this spot on the wall is just as you approach Housesteads Roman Fort from the west. Well worth a visit 👌 🥾Check out my blog (www.hikingphotographer.uk - link in bio) for my favourite section of Hadrian's Wall to walk
The edge of the Roman Empire from above…
This is Cawfields, one of my favourite stretches of Hadrian’s Wall to see from the air. Following the natural contours of the landscape, the Wall climbs above the former quarry before reaching Milecastle 42 one of the impressive milecastle remains still visible along the route today.
Milecastles were small fortified gateways positioned roughly every Roman mile along Hadrian’s Wall, allowing movement through the frontier and providing bases for small groups of soldiers.
Almost 2,000 years later, seeing the Wall cutting its way across this landscape really puts the scale of what the Romans built into perspective.
Save this one for your next Hadrian’s Wall adventure 🥾 🌿
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Alweer de vierde dag langs de muur van Hadrianus en we vermaken ons! A wall is a wall is a wall is a wall (vrij naar Shakespeare) #wandelen #vakantie #hiking #hadrianswall @jeroen_kramer01 @mylouf en Frenk van der Linden
Everyone knows Hadrian's Wall..but not everyone knows who really built it. 👀
John Hadrian finally had enough of England celebrating their 1966 World Cup win, so he did what any reasonable Scotsman would do..he built a wall.
History books don't always tell the full story.
What's your favourite Scottish "fact" I should cover next?
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Hadrian’s Wall - The Northern Border of Rome 🏛️
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ADV/ Se cerchi uno dei paesaggi più iconici del nord dell’Inghilterra, questo è il posto giusto.
Siamo nel Northumberland National Park, nel cuore più selvaggio dell’Inghilterra, lungo il leggendario Vallo di Adriano.
📍 Si parte da Steel Rigg
📏 Circa 6,5 km ad anello
⏱ 2 ore tranquille
È uno di quei percorsi dove ogni passo ha senso: segui il tracciato del Vallo tra creste spettacolari, passi per il celebre Sycamore Gap (anche oggi, senza il suo albero simbolo, resta un luogo fortissimo), e arrivi sopra Crag Lough, un lago glaciale incastrato sotto pareti rocciose.
Quello che colpisce davvero è il contrasto: da una parte la storia romana, dall’altra un paesaggio quasi “nordico”, aperto e silenzioso.
È il classico posto dove vieni per una passeggiata e finisci per restare fermo più del previsto, solo per guardarti intorno.
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Tag 1 meiner Reise begann ganz entspannt: Am Ufer des Tyne in Newcastle wartete ich auf meine neue Reisegruppe.
Unser erster Halt war der Angel of the North. Die 20 Meter hohe Stahlskulptur von Antony Gormley erinnert an die industrielle Vergangenheit Nordenglands – gleichzeitig sollen ihre weit ausgebreiteten Flügel den Aufbruch in eine neue Zukunft symbolisieren.
Danach ging es weiter zum Birdoswald Roman Fort, einem ehemaligen römischen Kastell direkt am Hadrianswall. Die rund 117 Kilometer lange Grenzanlage wurde ab dem Jahr 122 unter Kaiser Hadrian errichtet und markierte einst die nordwestliche Grenze des Römischen Reiches.
Am Abend erreichten wir schließlich unser Hotel im wunderschönen Lake District. Heute war noch alles recht entspannt – aber morgen wird unser Programm deutlich voller. Natürlich nehme ich euch wieder mit! 🇬🇧
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122 AD -- The Emperor Hadrian gave an order, and 15,000 Roman soldiers began building a wall across the top of Britain. It stretched 73 miles from sea to sea, 15 feet high and 10 feet wide, studded with forts and watchtowers. It was the edge of the known world. Beyond it: everything Rome could not conquer.
Hadrian was unlike most Roman emperors. Where his predecessor Trajan had expanded the empire to its greatest extent, Hadrian believed the empire had reached its natural limits. He traveled constantly to the frontiers, inspecting and consolidating. Britain -- invaded by Julius Caesar, then conquered under Claudius -- had never been fully pacified. The northern tribes, the Caledonians and Picts, had proven impossible to subdue. Hadrian's solution was not to keep pushing north. It was to draw a line.
Construction began around 122 AD, when Hadrian himself visited Britain. The wall was not just a military barrier -- it was a statement. It controlled every person crossing between north and south. Gates in the wall required payment of tolls and inspection of goods. Troops garrisoned in forts every mile monitored movement. Small "milecastles" punctuated the length at regular intervals, with signal towers allowing rapid communication along the entire line.
At its height, Hadrian's Wall was garrisoned by around 9,000-10,000 troops, many of them not Roman-born but auxiliaries recruited from across the empire -- soldiers from Syria, North Africa, and the Balkans living at the edge of a world their grandparents had never heard of. They built temples to their own gods alongside Roman ones. They married local women. They stayed for decades. Hadrian's Wall is still the largest surviving Roman structure in Britain -- nearly 1,900 years later, you can walk its length.
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This ancient wall, built nearly 2,000 years ago by the Romans, has a Game of Thrones connection - can you guess what it is? 🤔🏰
Watch to find out! 👀
📍Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland, England
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They did it!! Super proud of @charlierossisaac and his mates from school who all completed the 70 mile run along Hadrians from Carlisle to Newcastle yesterday #hadrianswall #thewall #sirthomasrichschool Enjoy that drink boys! You have so deserved it 🏃♂️🥇👍
An ancient wall almost 2,000 years old, and a catch-up with your mate? ✅
Historic landmarks like Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland National Park have been connecting people for centuries.
While that connection looks very different today from the wall’s original role as a Roman defensive fortification, it’s still a place where people come together and explore history.
Because our National Parks are about so much more than great places for a day out. They’re places to connect with friends, clear your head, get active and learn about history, all in one place.
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A letter found near Hadrian's Wall shows a Roman soldier's family sending him socks and underwear for the cold.
Construction of Hadrian's Wall began in 122 AD, built to mark the edge of the Roman Empire in what's now northern England. The soldiers stationed there were often pulled from warm Mediterranean provinces and had to endure brutal, wet British winters they'd never experienced. We know this firsthand from the Vindolanda tablets — nearly 2,000 preserved wooden letters found near the wall, including one recording a care package sent to help a soldier survive the cold. Remarkably, you can still walk the same wall today.
Tag the friend who'd have complained nonstop about this posting 🥶 Did you know we actually have a Roman soldier's care-package letter? Tell us below 👇
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