Ian Battersby visits the Hadrian’s Wall National Trail and its undulations
ADRIAN’S WALL became a World Heritage Site in 1987, and the sense of history is as embedded now as were the Roman militia then, stationed here to fend off northern raiding parties. This was the extreme north-western limit of the empire, and certainly no place like Rome; but some argue that skirmishes were scarce, and it was better than risking life and limb elsewhere. And what a
