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Housesteads Roman Fort and Museum

Housesteads Roman Fort and Museum

Type: Roman Forts & Museums, Facilities: Toilets, Facilities: Car Park, Facilities: Shop, Facilities: Picnic Tables, Facilities: Kiosk/Coffee Cart, Passport Stamping Station
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Contact information

Bardon Mill
Hexham
Northumberland NE47 6NN

Facilities and additional information

Photographer: Graeme Peacock
English Heritage

Visit the best preserved Roman fort in Britain. Housesteads is the most famous fort on Hadrian's Wall and lies on the great volcanic escarpment of Whin Sill. One of the 12 forts added to the Wall in about AD124, it was designed to contain a garrison of 800 soldiers.

Excavations at the fort have revealed four double-portal gateways, the curtain wall with turrets and latrines and three barrack blocks. At the centre are the most important buildings: the commanding officer's house, headquarters building and hospital. Then, of course, there are the breathtaking views and the museum - complete with a model of how the site would once have looked. Housesteads Roman Fort is part of the Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site.

Passport Stamping Station situated on English Heritage museum wall next to entrance

The National Trust

The Trust owns approx. 6 miles of the Wall, running west from Housesteads Fort to Cawfields Quarry, and over 1000ha (2471 acres) of farmland. Access to the Wall and the public rights of way is from car parks operated by the Northumberland National Park Authority at Housesteads, Steel Rigg and Cawfields. Housesteads Fort is owned by the National Trust, and maintained and managed by English Heritage

Facilities
  • Refreshment kiosk  (owned and managed by The National Trust)
  • Toilets including disabled (owned and managed by The National Trust)
  • Retail Area (owned and managed by The National Trust)
  • Interpretive displays
  • Museum and Fort (owned and managed by English Heritage)
  • Public Water Tap
  • Public Telephone
  • Cycle Stands (2 lockable)
  • Car Parking (owned and managed by Northumberland National Park Authority)  Max: 133 bays including 2 bays for disabled badge holders (£3.00 per car per day; the ticket is transferable to the other National Park Hadrian's Wall car parks at Walltown Quarry, Cawfields, Once Brewed Information Centre, Steel Rigg and Brocolitia).
  • Coach Parking  Max: 3 Coaches (£5.00 per coach per day)
  • Picnic Tables
  • Dogs, under close supervision
  • Post Box

    http://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/hadrianswall/text.asp?PageId=188

    Passport Stamping Station.  For more information click here.


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