Product Description

A World Heritage Site, Hadrian's Wall is a famous frontier, combining striking natural landscapes with monumental remains. Running between Bowness-on-Solway and Wallsend in Newcastle, the 84 mile route is described for walking in either direction, and the guide is divided into 22 stages, with detailed mapping showing the Roman remains beneath your feet.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #103136 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-14
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

About the Author
Mark Richards' transition from full-time farmer to full-time outdoor writer has been a gradual one. In 1973, with the direct encouragement of Alfred Wainwright, he wrote his first walking guide to the Cotswold Way. Since then he has indulged his pleasure in exploring rural Britain by creating a range of walking guides. In 1980 he began his three-part guide to the Peak District for Cicerone Press, and in 1987, with Chris Wright, wrote a guide to walking around the former county of Westmorland. This book sowed the seeds of a dream, to be fulfilled some 14 years later, when he and his wife moved to Cumbria. Here he developed a passion for the finest of all walking landscapes, held within and around this marvellous county. Now, living in what was once the Barony of Gilsland, Mark is close to Hadrian's Wall, enabling him to renew a fascination first kindled when he prepared a guide to walking the Wall in 1993.

Customer Reviews

Excellent
I bought this on the recommendation of a friend who is walking the Wall this year, and as I'm doing it next year, I wanted a guide. This is easy to understand, it breaks the 80-odd mile walk up into sections and gives the instructions in two directions, depending on whether you're starting in the West at Maia or in the East at Segedunum.
The usual recommended time for walking the wall is 7 days, but this book recommends 9-10, just so you have time to see everything along the way, because there's attractions that aren't just Roman - there's churches and castles as well.
It lists the sections of the route at the back, giving the distance in both miles and kilometres, there's translations of the Saxon village names, there's bits of Wall related history, and at the back is a little guide to the wall route if you decide to drive, or bus it.
It also gives a list of where to find accommodation, and mentions nice eateries along the route, and has some stunning photographs of various stages of Wall just to whet your appetite. It even tells of one section where the wind can be "strong" !
This is a pretty comprehensive book; I haven't walked the Wall yet so haven't "tested" the book yet, and you'll need an Ordnance Survey map too.
And, last but not least, the route takes you through Burgh-by-Sands, the death-place of Edward 1, and I am very much looking forward to seeing the monument and the statue to England's greatest king.......

Hadrians Wall
Of the 5 guides books that were taken on the walk this was by far the best.
It has good information on everything and maps that really do give directions.
An Excellent Book.

The one-way two-way guide
This is an excellent guide - concise, comprehensive and not too heavy (which matters if you're carrying all your own packs). But what it's not is a two-way trail guide. This is an east to west guide, and at the end of each section is a very brief description of the route if you're walking west to east. Given that the trail is liberally peppered with waymarkers this really isn't necessary, so you'll find yourself trying to read the interesting and informative section of the guide - but backwards! Don't be too deterred - it's a good guide, but west to east is the way to walk Hadrian's Wall. Unless, of course, you prefer to have the wind and rain in your face.