Hadrians Wall Set Up

Provider

Hadrian's Cycleway (6 days cycling)
Self-Guided Family Cycling Holiday 

When

July 2024

Costs

£ 150 Bike Hire with helmet

£ 835 

Trip Covered

• 3Star Accommodation 7 Nights
• Transfer from Newcastle in the East to Bowness on Solway in the West.
• Daily Transfer of Luggage
• Breakfasts
• GPX Map for Ride with GPS
• Physical Map (Which we never used)

Where Did it go

• Mostly follows Sustrans Route 72

Navigation

• Ride With GPS
  
  
  
• Voice Navigation Prompts
• Elevation Maps
• Icons on Maps ,Points of Interest, Cafes Pubs 
• Blue Line Proposed Route, Redline actual
• How to get back to route from a detour.

Hadrian's Wall 

• Hadrian 117-138
• Julius Caesar 100BC-44BC invaded and set up a Roman Briton to the south but he and successive emperors could not defeat the northern tribes.
• Path of civil/military promotion in the Roman Empire
• Hadrian decided to stop the incessant growth of the empire with the concurrent problems associated so he decided enough was enough and set about setting limits to the borders.  Hence the wall.
• Wall started in 122
• Moved North after Hadrian's death to the Antonine Wall in 142 but this was abandoned shortly thereafter and the line moved back to Hadrian's wall.
•  Romans abandoned Briton by 410 but some parts of the wall fortifications were taken over by local Britons.