07/25/2002 Entry: "Travelling Hadrian's Wall"

HADRIAN'S WALL BY BUS OR BIKE
This summer, for the first time, a daily bus service runs the full length of Hadrian's Wall across Northern England, Britain’s largest and most important Roman monument. An extension of the Hexham-Carlisle service, it offers more frequent buses around the famous central section of the Roman wall - Housesteads, Vindolanda and the Roman Army Museum - and for the first time runs directly to Corbridge Roman Site and museum.

One-day rover tickets, giving unlimited travel on the route, cost £5.50 adults, £3 children, £11 for families: three-day tickets are also available. The buses run daily until September 8, then on Sundays until November 3. In July, a new vehicle with cycle-carrying facilities enters service.

This will prove useful for cyclists tackling the 220-mile Northumbria’s Cycling Kingdom, a new circuit which takes in the coast, and castles such as Bamburgh and Lindisfarne, as well as Hadrian's Wall. Hadrian's Wall Summer Guide 2002 is available at local tourist information centres, and includes bus and train timetables for the area, which is a World Heritage Site.
Website: www.hadrians-wall.org.