More photos from Hadrian’s Wall in winter. Milecastle 39 and Sycamore Gap are visited by large numbers of people but on this particular day there was only a handful of us out walking. Hadrian’s Wall has an abundance of incredible locations that are well worth visiting. The landscape it occupies never fails to take my breath away.
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Haven’t been to Sycamore Gap yet but it looks great – I’m hoping to walk Hadrian’s Wall when my hip is fixed (providing it works of course)
I hope your hip is fixed soon Carol, there are some great walks along the wall. Are you planning to walk the entire length or will you be visiting individual sites?
I think we’ll be doing chunks – we visited the Port Carlisle area last summer and loved it
A famous site and so beautifully photographed by you from an not often seen angle too.
Thanks Paula. I’ve tried photographing the gap from the popular viewpoint but never seem to come away with a decent image.
Wonderful Images! Looking forward to more.
Thank you very much Gonzalo!
Wonderfully captured b&w images showing the cold and emptiness that the Roman soldiers must have felt. Is the castle a real castle or an old Roman garrison?
Thanks Barbara. One of 80 Roman garrisons along Hadrian’s Wall. They each guarded a gateway through the wall with 20–30 soldiers housed in two barrack blocks. A pretty bleak place for a Roman soldier to be stationed, I bet they wished they’d been sent to a sunnier part of the Roman Empire.
Wonderful black and white images, Simon. Love the winter tree along the wall.
Thank you very much Jane. Will be visiting again next winter for more pictures of this tree and some others close by.
Your photos whet my appetite for the wall! My husband and I are walking the entire wall from east to west in September…though we may start at the outskirts of Newcastle. Will we miss anything really terrific if we do? What are your favourite sections of the wall? Clearly you know it well.
The outskirts of Newcastle is a good place to start Linda. Highlights along the wall from east to west include Chesters Fort, Limestone Corner (where there is still evidence of Romans attempting to split and quarry large rock), Temple of Mithras, Housesteads Fort, Vindolanda Fort, Sycamore Gap, Cawfields, Walltown Crags and the Roman Army Museum. One of the most impressive sections to explore is Housesteads through to Walltown Crags. Enjoy the walk with your husband in September 🙂
Thanks so much, Simon.
Brilliant.
Thank you.
Interesting to see it clad in snow. Can’t have been much fun being posted there for the soldiers more used to a mediterranean climate.
I bet they had a sorry look on their faces once they got here!