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Hadrian's Wall Path
Location: Cumbria
 Hadrian's Wall Path is the only National Trail within a World Heritage Site. It's appeal can be traced back into antiquity, from a time before any notion of conserving it for its own sake existed and long before the idea of walking as a form of popular recreation had occurred to anyone. The seed was sown in 1801 by William Hutton who, at the age of 78, walked from Birmingham to Hadrian's Wall, along it, and then back again, recording his enthusiastic observations in his "The History of the Roman Wall".
 West of Carlisle there is little obvious evidence of the Wall although the clues are there in the landscape and it is just as important nevertheless to protect it. With its wide expansive aspect and nature conservation interests the Solway section presents the perfect place to end one's own secular pilgrimage along the Wall and National Trail.
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