Comprehensive, this is the only companion you need to walk this well-loved path. 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 Engl&. Starting in what used to be Tyneside's shipbuilding heart, & joining Newcastle in the east with Carlisle in the west, it takes you via the extraordinary Roman forts of Vindolanda & Housesteads, close to handsome towns like Hexham & Corbridge, to finish on the lonely shores of the Solway Firth with views of Scotl&. About the author Anthony Burton is the author of a number of books in the National Trail Guides series for Aurum, including The West Highland Way, Hadrian's Wall Path, The Cotswold Way & The Ridgeway, as well as a biography of Richard Trevithick & Thomas Telford & numerous other works of industrial history. He lives in Stroud.