Northumberland, the Borders and Hadrian's Wall

Year: 2000 Format: 13x23 Pages: 96 Photos: with 28 excursions between the hills south of Edinburgh, in the Scottish Borders and Northumberland regions. The peace and quiet of the sparsely populated countryside on both sides of the English-Scottish border is something of a deception, as for centuries this was Britain's most violent territory. The landscape reveals not only medieval castles and walled towns, but also fortified towers, or mini-castles, that protected isolated farms. The most impressive of this series of fortifications is the oldest, the Roman wall built by Emperor Hadrian. Although no longer on the border between England and Scotland, Hadrian's Wall represents the first attempt to define the border between the northern and southern halves of the island of Great Britain. Border towns lie on the banks of the River Tweed, famous for both its natural beauty and its salmon fishing, and to the south and west of the valley lies Broad Law and Northumberland National Park, one of the smallest in Great Britain. Brittany. It includes the most spectacular part of Hadrian's Wall and from there extends north through some of the border woodland, through river valleys to the northernmost part of the Pennines. With detailed cartographic tables, in English.