After a delicious dinner and a restful night at Hadrian's Hotel, we resumed our walk eastwards from Wall. Despite the abundance of wall-related place names, the Wall itself appears only occasionally above ground in this part of Northumberland. In many places it is underground, even under the highway, and so for much of the day our path followed the course of the modern-day road.
One bit of Wall we did see is at the spot where, due to budget cuts, the thickness of the wall was reduced from 10 to 8 feet.
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| The black sheep in the family! |
Towards noon the wind came up and blew us across the fields and right into the Vallum Farm Tea Room, billed as "The foodie gateway to the wall", where we enjoyed an excellent lunch of rarebit followed by sticky toffee pudding with custard!
Another ten kilometres and we reached our destination, the hostel at Houghton North Farm, where we dined on instant soup, cheese scones and apples... plenty of apples!
Wall - Heddon-on-the-Wall 25.5 km
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