Hadrian's Wall Walk, Day Three

Trip Start Aug 23, 1996
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Saturday, April 11, 2009

Day 3

Start - Finish

Chollerford - Once Brewed

Distance - 24 Kilometres

As we were staying on a hobby farm, the bacon and sausages had come from the farms pigs whilst the eggs were a deep rich yellow as they were free range hens. Trust me, it was tasty !!!
 
We set off and went down to the gates of Chesters Roman fort. As it was 08:30 and not 10:00, we were not allowed to enter, so we climbed a hill instead and had our first talk of the morning with a sheep farmer. He told us about lambing, shearing and other things. It was quite interesting. After half an hour, the Surrey cheaters came into view, so we set off across the fields in the sun, as the rain had disappeared over night.
 
It didn't take long to see it, but there it was, a huge piece of wall with the vallum on the side of it. Eventually, the wall ran out as like most areas, it had been used as stones for houses, but the vallum was ever present. As we walked, we came across Brocolita Fort. At present, it is unexcavated. At the back of it, is a temple to Mithras. It was discovered in 1949 and all the good stuff had been moved to the Museum of Antiquities in Newcastle, which we plan on seeing when we get back.
 
After walking through more farms, we started talking to another farmer who in his trailer, he had a twelve hour old sheep. This was great, I had never seen a sheep so young. He told us that we had eight K's to go, so we started walking. The trail was going up and down the crags with the wall on the side, it was very impressive. As lunch loomed, we stopped off at the most complete Roman fort. Housteads.
 
Once we finished eating, we paid and went in. Normally, we run all over these sites taking it in, but truthfully, I was fucked !!!. There were also loads of other day walkers out and about, so we moved back onto the track.
 
Trust me, the views were stunning, the wall was amazing, but this walk was tiring as we were going up and down constantly. Still, you couldn't complain, there were loads of mile castles to look at. Not long after, we arrived at Sycamore Gap, so called because in the middle of a down/up section was a sycamore tree which had appeared in Roin Hood alongside Kevin Costner. And then after a couple of more up/downs, we arrived at the Twice Brewed pub in Once Brewed where we were staying.
 
As we had seen enough lambs over the last three days, we had lamb shanks in mashed potato for dinner, it went down a treat. Afterwards, we got talking to a couple who walk the wall every year. They had seen the cheaters from Surrey and said that the grandmother was really struggling. Quite sad really, I was looking forward to having more pints with them !!!
 
And Finally
 
It had been a spectacular day, the best so far, hopefully tomorrow will be just as good

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001 Farm, Day 3 001 Farm, Day 3 002 Empty Road, Day 3 002 Empty Road, Day 3 003 David in a Field, Day 3 003 David in a Field, Day 3 004 Mile Castle Remains, Day 3 004 Mile Castle Remains, Day 3
005 Lucy in a Field, Day 3 005 Lucy in a Field, Day 3 006 Tree, Day 3 006 Tree, Day 3 007 Tree, Day 3 007 Tree, Day 3 008 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 008 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3
009 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 009 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 010 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 010 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 011 Lucy & Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 011 Lucy & Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 012 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 012 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3
013 David Walking the Trail, Day 3 013 David Walking the Trail, Day 3 014 The Vallum, Day 3 014 The Vallum, Day 3 015 Temple of Mithral, Day 3 015 Temple of Mithral, Day 3 016 Altar at the Temple of Mithral, Day 3 016 Altar at the Temple of Mithral, Day 3
017 David in a Field, Day 3 017 David in a Field, Day 3 018 The Vallum, Day 3 018 The Vallum, Day 3 019 Lucy in a Field, Day 3 019 Lucy in a Field, Day 3 020 Lamb, Day 3 020 Lamb, Day 3
021 Sheep, Day 3 021 Sheep, Day 3 022 Tree in a Mile Castle, Day 3 022 Tree in a Mile Castle, Day 3 023 Lucy and Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 023 Lucy and Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 024 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 024 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3
025 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 025 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 026 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 026 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 027 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 027 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 028 David on Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 028 David on Hadrian's Wall, Day 3
029 Lucy & Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 029 Lucy & Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 030 View, Day 3 030 View, Day 3 031 Lake, Day 3 031 Lake, Day 3 032 Line of the Wall, Day 3 032 Line of the Wall, Day 3
033 Line of the Wall, Day 3 033 Line of the Wall, Day 3 034 David Walking the Trail, Day 3 034 David Walking the Trail, Day 3 035 Hadrian's Wall Trail, Day 3 035 Hadrian's Wall Trail, Day 3 036 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 036 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3
037 Lucy & Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 037 Lucy & Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 038 Lucy on the Traill, Day 3 038 Lucy on the Traill, Day 3 039 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 039 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 040 Line of the Wall, Day 3 040 Line of the Wall, Day 3
041 Housteads Fort, Day 3 041 Housteads Fort, Day 3 042 Housteads Fort, Day 3 042 Housteads Fort, Day 3 043 Housteads Fort, Day 3 043 Housteads Fort, Day 3 044 Housteads Fort Wall, Day 3 044 Housteads Fort Wall, Day 3
045 Housteads Fort, Day 3 045 Housteads Fort, Day 3 046 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 046 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 047 Latrine at Housteads Fort, Day 3 047 Latrine at Housteads Fort, Day 3 048 Latrine at Housteads Fort, Day 3 048 Latrine at Housteads Fort, Day 3
049 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 049 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 050 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 050 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 051 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 051 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 052 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 052 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3
053 Broken Arch, Day 3 053 Broken Arch, Day 3 054 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 054 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 055 David on the Trail, Day 3 055 David on the Trail, Day 3 056 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 056 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3
057 David & Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 057 David & Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 058 Lucy & Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 058 Lucy & Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 059 Lake, Day 3 059 Lake, Day 3 060 Lucy and a Lake, Day 3 060 Lucy and a Lake, Day 3
061 David on the Trail, Day 3 061 David on the Trail, Day 3 062 Sycamore Gap, Day 3 062 Sycamore Gap, Day 3 063 Sycamore Gap & Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 063 Sycamore Gap & Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 064 Mile Castle & Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 064 Mile Castle & Hadrian's Wall, Day 3
065 Mile Castle & Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 065 Mile Castle & Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 066 Mile Castle & Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 066 Mile Castle & Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 067 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 067 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 068 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 068 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3
069 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 069 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 070 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 070 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 071 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 071 Hadrian's Wall, Day 3 072 Twice Brewed Inn, Day 3 072 Twice Brewed Inn, Day 3
073 David on the Trail, Day 3 073 David on the Trail, Day 3
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thistlemoon on Apr 22, 2009 at 06:33PM

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