Hadrian's Wall Path
OSM hiking route across northern England (123.7 km line), Wallsend to Bowness-on-Solway. Vertical figures sampled from Copernicus GLO-30. Days (10) is a placeholder from round(lengthKm/12), not the published 6–8 day National Trail window (unverified).
Byline
- The Hiking World editorial · author
Desk byline for seed records. Named surveying editors replace this once a trail is verified.
Figures marked provisional are seed data and still need verification. Source and last-checked date sit under each cited value.
Editorial v1 · Provisional catalog
- SAC T2
- Mountain hiking. Continuous trail, some steep ground, sure-footedness helpful.
- YDS Class 1
- Class 1. Walking on an established path; low fall risk.
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Ingested from OpenStreetMap relation 38791 (ODbL). The mapped line and 2D length are derived from that geometry. Ascent, descent, and high/low points are sampled from Copernicus GLO-30 (copernicus-dem:glo-30) and remain provisional. Water, permits, and hazards were not taken from OSM tags and must be verified.
OSM 2D length is 123.7 km (relation 38791; longest-component snap of the National Trail, Wikidata Q1567583, OSM distance=134.5 km). A 15.4 km leftover fragment set was not glued. Published 135 km / 84 miles, typically 6–7 days (https://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/en_GB/trails/hadrians-wall-path/, checked 2026-08-24) are cross-checks only, not this DataPoint. This is the walking National Trail, not Hadrian's Cycleway.
typicalDays 10 is Math.round(lengthKm/12), a placeholder. The official trail-information page generally recommends 6 or 7 days for experienced walkers (https://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/en_GB/trails/hadrians-wall-path/trail-information/, checked 2026-08-24); that stamp is not this field.
Water was not mapped to named WaterSource points (no honest atFraction). The official interactive map lists water points along the Trail; they were not positioned here.
Water
No water sources recorded.
Permits & fees
No permit required.
Getting there
Sourced legs to the Wallsend (OSM line start) base start station — where this trail record begins. This is not a route planner: durations are approximate and marked provisional until an official transport page confirms them.
Rail · Newcastle International Airport (NCL) → Wallsend
Tyne & Wear Metro. Bus and Metro services link Newcastle International Airport and Newcastle Ferry Port to the start of the Trail at Wallsend. The start is a 10-minute Metro journey from Newcastle rail station (https://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/en_GB/trails/hadrians-wall-path/trail-information/, checked 2026-08-24).
nationaltrail.co.uk · 2026-08-24 · official · provisional
Northern's Newcastle–Carlisle Tyne Valley line and the seasonal AD122 Hadrian's Wall Bus serve intermediate trailheads (same official information page, checked 2026-08-24).
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Trailheads
- Wallsend (OSM line start) car-free: yes
- Bowness-on-Solway (OSM line end) car-free: unknown
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Hazards
- The Trail is fragile and can become muddy in wet weather; the official page recommends May–October to reduce erosion and damage to the underlying archaeology (https://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/en_GB/trails/hadrians-wall-path/, checked 2026-08-24).
- Hadrian's Wall is a scheduled monument / UNESCO World Heritage Site — stay on the Path (same official pages, checked 2026-08-24).
- The 23 mile (37 km) Chollerford–Birdoswald section is the hardest, with many short climbs and descents (same site, checked 2026-08-24).
- Solway coast stretches near Dykesfield–Drumburgh and Port Carlisle–Bowness can flood on the tide (https://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/en_GB/trails/hadrians-wall-path/trail-information/, checked 2026-08-24).
- Busy road crossings exist along the Trail (official map filters list them; same information page, checked 2026-08-24).