A Short Guide To Hadrian S Wall

Author : Gordon Smith,Gordon Simm,Jacquetta Megarry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-23
Category : Hadrian's Wall Path (England)
ISBN : 1898481431

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Hadrian's Wall Path by Gordon Smith,Gordon Simm,Jacquetta Megarry Pdf

?Hadrians Wall Path runs for 86 miles from Bowness-on-Solway to Wallsend along the line of the Roman Wall completed in AD122 under the Emperor Hadrian. This National Trail crosses northern England from Irish Sea to North Sea and offers many chances to look at the forts, milecastles and interpretation centers within this UNESCO World Heritage Site. This guidebook contains all youll need to plan, and enjoy a classic weeks walking.

Author : Andrew Tibbs
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781398113107

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A Short Guide to Hadrian's Wall by Andrew Tibbs Pdf

An accessible illustrated introduction to the history of sites located across the iconic location of Hadrian's Wall.

Author : Adrian Goldsworthy
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541644458

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Hadrian's Wall by Adrian Goldsworthy Pdf

From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, a definitive history of Hadrian's Wall Stretching eighty miles from coast to coast across northern England, Hadrian's Wall is the largest Roman artifact known today. It is commonly viewed as a defiant barrier, the end of the empire, a place where civilization stopped and barbarism began. In fact, the massive structure remains shrouded in mystery. Was the wall intended to keep out the Picts, who inhabited the North? Or was it merely a symbol of Roman power and wealth? What was life like for soldiers stationed along its expanse? How was the extraordinary structure built -- with what technology, skills, and materials? In Hadrian's Wall, Adrian Goldsworthy embarks on a historical and archaeological investigation, sifting fact from legend while simultaneously situating the wall in the wider scene of Roman Britain. The result is a concise and enthralling history of a great architectural marvel of the ancient world.

Author : Mark Richards
Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781787650107

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Hadrian's Wall Path by Mark Richards Pdf

The essential guidebook to walking the 135km (84 mile) Hadrian's Wall Path. One of the UK's most visited National Trails, it runs the length of the Roman Wall from Bowness-on-Solway in Cumbria to Wallsend, Newcastle. The trail is presented here in 10 stages, with suggestions for five and eight-day itineraries. It is suitable for beginners, although a reasonable level of fitness is required if doing it as a multi-day walk. The route is described both west to east and east to west, and the guidebook also features an extension through Newcastle to South Shields on the east coast. This guidebook contains a wealth of information on the history of the Wall, and a range of practical information for walkers, from accommodation and itinerary planning, to details on public transport and refreshments. A separate map booklet of 1:25,000 scale OS maps shows the full route. Clear step-by-step route descriptions in the guide are illustrated by 1:100,000 OS map extracts. The route description links together with the map booklet at each stage along the way, and the compact format is conveniently sized for slipping into a jacket pocket or the top of a rucksack.

Author : Henry Stedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Hadrian's Wall (England)
ISBN : OCLC:1285551848

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Hadrian's Wall Path by Henry Stedman Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Hadrian's Wall (England)
ISBN : OCLC:248414377

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Hadrian's Wall by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andrew Tibbs
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781398117969

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A Short Guide to Roman London by Andrew Tibbs Pdf

An illustrated, readable companion and indispensable guide to Roman London, both visible and beneath your feet.

Author : Andrew McCluggage
Publisher : Great Treks of England
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912933071

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Trekking the Hadrian's Wall Path by Andrew McCluggage Pdf

The definitive two-way guide to the Hadrian's Wall Path: both eastbound and westbound routes are described in full Real Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 maps inside. 14 different itineraries: schedules of 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 days for walkers and runners. Includes both northbound and southbound itineraries. Difficult calculations of time, distance and altitude gain are done for you. Also includes: -Extraordinary detail on the history and construction of Hadrian's Wall -Section on the unmissable forts of Hadrian's Wall -Detailed information on equipment and travelling light -Everything the trekker needs to know: route, costs, difficulty, weather, travel, and more -Full accommodation listings: the best inns, B&Bs and hotels

Author : William Dietrich
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061744808

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Hadrian's Wall by William Dietrich Pdf

A fusion of Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire and the movie Braveheart; a novel of ancient warfare, lethal politics, and the final great clash of Roman and Celtic culture. For three centuries, the stone barrier we know as Hadrian's Wall shielded Roman Britain from the unconquered barbarians of the island's northern highlands. But when Valeria, a senator's daughter, is sent to the Wall for an arranged marriage to an aristocratic officer in 367 AD, her journey unleashes jealousy, passion and epic war. Valeria's new husband, Marcus, has supplanted the brutally efficient veteran soldier Galba as commander of the famed Petriana cavalry. Yet Galba insists on escorting the bride–to–be on her journey to the Wall. Is he submitting to duty? Or plotting revenge? And what is the mysterious past of the handsome barbarian chieftain Arden Caratacus, who springs from ambush and who seems to know so much of hated Rome? As sharp as the edge of a spatha sword and as piercing as a Celtic arrow, Hadrian's Wall evokes a lost world of Roman ideals and barbaric romanticism.

Author : Anthony Burton,Great Britain. Natural England
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Hadrian's Wall Path (England)
ISBN : 1781313695

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Hadrian?'s Wall Path by Anthony Burton,Great Britain. Natural England Pdf

Since it opened in 2003 Hadrian’s Wall Path has become one of Britain’s most popular long-distance paths. Its 84 miles are a convenient week’s walking, shadowing for the most part the historic line of Hadrian’s Wall in its spectacular progress across the superbly wild landscape of the north of England. Starting in what used to be Tyneside’s shipbuilding heart, and joining Newcastle in the east with Carlisle in the west, it takes you via the extraordinary Roman forts of Vindolanda and Housesteads, close to handsome towns like Hexham and Corbridge, to finish on the lonely shores of the Solway Firth with views of Scotland. This is the official guide to this superb National Trail, published in conjunction with Natural England which administers the path and waymarks it with its familiar acorn signs. Comprehensive and engrossing, it is the only companion you need.

Author : Guy de la Bedoyere
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781445612133

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Hadrian's Wall by Guy de la Bedoyere Pdf

An extensively revised and updated version of a classic title.

Author : Henry Stedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : England, Northern
ISBN : 190586437X

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Hadrian's Wall by Henry Stedman Pdf

Hadrian s Wall Path, 84 miles from end to end, follows the course of northern Europe s largest surviving Roman monument, a 2nd-century fortification built in the border country between England and Scotland on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian in AD122. It runs from the west coast of Britain across the country to the east coast. Hadrian s Wall Path is the first National Trail to follow the course of a UNESCO World Heritage Site."

Author : J. S. Johnson,Great Britain. Department of the Environment. Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings,Great Britain. Directorate of Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0116714727

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Hadrian's Wall by J. S. Johnson,Great Britain. Department of the Environment. Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings,Great Britain. Directorate of Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings Pdf

Author : Alistair Moffat
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857904812

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The Wall by Alistair Moffat Pdf

Hadrian's Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monument in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale: a land wall running 73 miles from east to west and a sea wall stretching at least 26 miles down the Cumbrian coast. Many of its forts are as large as Britain's most formidable medieval castles, and the wide ditch dug to the south of the Wall, the vallum, is larger than any surviving prehistoric earthwork. Built in a ten-year period by more than 30,000 soldiers and labourers at the behest of an extraordinary emperor, the Wall consisted of more than 24 million stones, giving it a mass greater than all the Egyptian pyramids put together. At least a million people visit Hadrian's Wall each year and it has been designated a World Heritage Site. In this book, based on literary and historical sources as well as the latest archaeological research, Alistair Moffat considers who built the Wall, how it was built, why it was built and how it affected the native peoples who lived in its mighty shadow. The result is a unique and fascinating insight into one of the Wonders of the Ancient World.

Author : Vivienne Crow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : Settle to Carlisle Way (England)
ISBN : 1898481563

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Settle to Carlisle Way by Vivienne Crow Pdf

?The Settle to Carlisle Way is a newly developed route that runs from station to station, mostly within sight of the famous railway. It goes for 97 miles (156 km) northward from Settle, soon enjoying great views of the Three Peaks as it progresses through the Yorkshire Dales National Park, past the Ribblehead Viaduct and over Blea Moor tunnel. Entering Cumbria via lonely Mallerstang, the Way passes beneath Wild Boar Fell and descends gently through the delightful valley of the River Eden. Here it passes Long Meg and her Daughters stone circle and moves on to Armathwaite, ending in the historic border city of Carlisle.