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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Fourstones

  

Fourstones Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Fourstones

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Newbrough and Fourstones are on the Stanegate Roman road, built in AD 71, which formed the original northern frontier before the building of Hadrian’s Wall. Fourstones was the site of the first official Boy Scouts camp held by Lord Baden-Powell in 1908.

You can visit Fourstones places with Walkfo Fourstones to hear history at Fourstones’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Fourstones has 22 places to visit in our interactive Fourstones map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Fourstones, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Fourstones places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Fourstones & the surrounding areas.

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22 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Walkfo Fourstones tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Fourstones

  

Best Fourstones places to visit

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Fourstones has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Fourstones’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Fourstones’s information audio spots:

Fourstones Fourstones is a village in Northumberland, England. The village lies on the north bank of the River South Tyne about 4 miles (6 km) west of Hexham.

Milecastle 30 Milecastle 30 (Limestone Corner) was a milecastle of Roman Hadrian’s Wall. Its remains exist as an outward-facing scarp with a maximum height of 0.8 metres (2.6 ft) Masonry from the east wall (both faces) remains in situ.

Limestone Corner Limestone Corner is an area of Hadrian’s Wall at its most northerly point, in present-day northern England. Other notable features include a wall ditch, a Roman camp and a trig point. The Military Way is visible on the ground at this point, the most eastern point where this is the case.

Milecastle 28 Milecastle 28 (Walwick) was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian’s Wall in England. Its location is immediately to the south of the B6318 Military Road in Walwick.

Milecastle 29 Milecastle 29 (Tower Tye) was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian’s Wall. Its remains exist as a mutilated earth platform accentuated by deep robber-trenches around all sides, and are located beside the B6318 Military Road.

Cilurnum Cilurnum or Cilurvum was a fort on Hadrian’s Wall mentioned in the Notitia Dignitatum. It is now identified with the fort found at Chesters (also known as Walwick Chesters) near Walwick, Northumberland, England. It was built in 123 AD, just after the wall’s completion.

Hadrian’s Wall Path Hadrian’s Wall Path is a long-distance footpath in the north of England. It runs for 84 miles (135 km) from Wallsend on the east coast of England to Bowness-on-Solway on the west coast. For most of its length it is close to the remains of the defensive wall built by the Romans.

Milecastle 27 Milecastle 27 (Low Brunton) was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian’s Wall. It was located midway between the A6079 and the River North Tyne. Its remains survive as a slight squarish platform.

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