Walk · Northumberland

Once Brewed, Vindolanda and the Stanegate

Once Brewed · NE47 7AN

4.8MILES

2h 30mON FOOT

170mCLIMB

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The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland

Off-road 82% 18% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 54%Lane & track 28%Road with traffic 18%

Our drawing of the route, over road and path data from OpenStreetMap. It shows where the walk goes and what it goes through. It is not a survey and not a navigation aid — carry OS Explorer on the hill. Off-lead information here is what walkers reported or what signage allows — never our advice. Whether and when a dog is off the lead is the owner’s decision and legal responsibility; keep dogs under control near livestock and follow signs on the day.

Starts at

The Sill visitor centre car park, Once Brewed NE47 7AN

Parking

Large pay-and-display at The Sill, open all year and rarely full, with the National Park’s own overflow behind it

Directions to the start →

Four and three quarter miles in two and a half hours on the quiet side of the Wall, down lanes and field paths to the boundary of the Vindolanda excavations and back along the line of the Stanegate Roman road. Start at The Sill national landscape centre at Once Brewed, where the car park is large, pay-and-display and open all year, with the Twice Brewed Inn next door. Vindolanda is a paid site with its own dog rules so check before you plan to go in; the walk itself crosses sheep pasture the whole way with gates and one ladder stile, and the burn below Codley Gate is the only reliable water.

THE SMALL PRINTLeads needed throughout: every field on the route is grazed by sheep, and the National Park asks for dogs on leads on farmland here in the lambing season.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

REGION · NORTHUMBERLAND

GRID · 54.9963, -2.3910

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.NORTHUMBERLANDNATIONALPARK.ORG.UK/TAKE-THE-LEAD/

Once Brewed, Vindolanda and the Stanegate

House rules, decoded

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