Route map0 stops · 3 along the way
Plan your visit
- Getting there
- Start near Keswick, then drive east across Hadrian's Wall country to Escomb, Holy Island and the coast; plan tides.
- Parking
- Site car parks at Castlerigg, Housesteads and Holy Island; Craster/Embleton parking for Dunstanburgh.
- Best time
- Late spring to early autumn; pack for sudden weather on the Wall and coast.
- Terrain
- Mountain roads, Roman ridge paths, church stops, tidal causeway and exposed coastal walking.
The trip story
0 stopsSome site IDs in this trip weren't found in the sheet: castlerigg-stone-circle, housesteads-roman-fort, escomb-saxon-church, lindisfarne-priory, dunstanburgh-castle
What remains
What remains is a northern sequence of thresholds: circle, frontier, church, island and castle, each one asking you to cross into a different older world.
