Hallow Hill

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Hallow Hill is one of 36 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Tyne and Wear. Other SSSIs nearby include Ryton Willows and Thornley Wood. The nearest railway station is Blaydon, about 3.5 km to the south-east.

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Hadrian's Wall Path

National Trail

Coast to coast along the Roman frontier, milecastle by milecastle.

0.4 km S · Northumberland, Cumbria & Tyne and Wear

Heddon-on-the-Wall, Hadrian's Wall

Frontier wall near Wylam

The best-preserved excavated length of the original Broad Wall, about 3 metres thick at Heddon, with a medieval corn-drying kiln built into it.

2.7 km NW

Denton Hall Turret, Hadrian's Wall

Frontier wall near Newcastle upon Tyne

Low footings of turret 7b with a 65-metre run of broad Wall beside the busy West Road on Newcastle's western edge.

3.8 km E

Benwell Vallum Crossing

Frontier wall near Newcastle upon Tyne

Stone causeway carrying the road to Benwell fort over the Vallum ditch, the only such crossing still visible anywhere along Hadrian's Wall.

5.9 km E

Benwell Roman Temple

roman-temple near Newcastle upon Tyne

Footings of a little Roman shrine to the local god Antenociticus, from the settlement beside Benwell fort, now in a quiet street of Newcastle houses.

6.1 km E

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Gibside

House & garden near Wylam

A Georgian landscape estate with a ruined hall and Palladian chapel by James Paine.

7.6 km S