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Running Hadrian's Wall - Anna McNuff, Lydia Birch
Apr 18, 2014
Start Hadrian's Wall
Apr 21, 2014
End Hadrian's Wall
In April 2014 Anna and her friend and history teacher Lydia Birch set out to run 86 miles along the Hadrian’s Wall trail in the North of the UK. They ran dressed as Roman soldiers and went into schools in London afterward to tell kids all about the history of Britain’s oldest wall. Hadrian’s Wall, also called the Roman Wall, Picts’ Wall, or Vallum Hadriani in Latin, was a defensive fortification in the Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 in the reign of the emperor Hadrian.For around three centuries, Hadrian’s Wall was a vibrant, multi-cultured frontier sprawling almost...
