Walltown Visitor Centre — Attraction in Greenhead

Nice visitors centre with friendly staff, you can buy tea,coffee and light snack food, sit in or out. You can get a wheel chair into the centre to be able to sit out of the rain. The walking in this area is good and not strenuous, some public footpaths cross farm land so please keep your dog on a lead. If there are cows, calfs or bulls in the fields maybe think of an alternative route. The centre sits close to Hadrians wall, so easy access for the walkers. There are washing facilities at the rear of the centre and public toilets.

It's strange that you can pay for overnight parking, but the websites says no sleeping in vehicles overnight. That a shame as this is a great site out of the way of houses and the...

Large carpark on a dead end road, just down from the Roman Army Museum. Pay and display £6 all day (March 2024). A good base camp for several walks in different directions. The small visitor centre has tea, coffee and snacks - alongside tourist information. Check the website as they close the centre out of season, but keep the car park open all year round. There is also a specific Dark Skies viewing area for special celestial events. Be aware, it's a very steep section of Hadrian's Wall, very up and down, but the views from the top are...

Good place to see Hadian's wall. It's free to visit, although you have to pay to park, but that was pretty cheap. Only about a 15 minute walk from car park park up to the wall, and the setting of the wall here is stunning. We visited just before the little shop/visitor centre closed, on a day when it was raining heavily and there was no-one else here at all. The chap in the centre was friendly and helpful. There are public toilets here. We chose here because it was not too big a detour from the M6 for a...