Chesters Roman Fort and Museum - Hadrian's Wall — Attraction in Humshaugh

The room was superb, spacious and comfortable, very soft carpet. The bed was sucking you in and didn't let go... enormous mattres, super soft and a tower of pillows to choose from. Big bathroom with a shower and free-standing bath, toiletries, robes and sleepers for the guests. Very hot water in the hotel. Overall 5 🌟 room rate👌.

The spa was a bit disappointing. Overnight stay only gives you complmentary access to the swimming pool for an 1h and it needs to be pre-booked between 12-20.30?! There are another 2 pools ( indoor amd outdoor) but not included in the price if you're not a member, unless you pay extra £45 per day. Saunas... included in the offer, dry sauna was only 65°, hard to get the proper bone warming feeling you'd expect from a finish sauna session. Steam sauna was ok, smallish but stylish. The dark theme and star-like celiling create a nice atmosphere. Coffee... avid of you can! Fusion restaurant looks very nice, overlooking the luxurious pool (you don't have access to), serves asian food, smothies, protein shakes and coffee... the last one is not consumable. The restaurant is accessible straight from the pool and you can have a nice vitamin shake in your robe 😀 ( we, sadly, chose a coffee..)

The grounds are stunning! Neverending walks between the golf courses, pictures surroundings with buildings blended into the nature. Evening entertainment in one of the restaurants or melex-bar service to the tree houses further away from the main hotel building. Staff very friendly, welcoming and attentive. Only 10min from Durham city centre. 3 🌟...

We owe a huge debt of gratitude to John Clayton who inherited this land in 1832 and being fascinated by Roman History spent the rest of his life uncovering the remains of this Roman Fort. It's a beautiful setting for this place with the River Tyne just below. A Roman bridge once crossed here, the stones of which are still under the water, though the remains of the bridge abutment are still visible on the other side. This Fort was home to the Second Asturian Cavalry, an auxiliary regiment, originally coming from Northern Spain. You can see the Barrack foundations where these men lived with their horses. But the highlight of this site is the extraordinarily well preseved Bath House, the most intact Roman Bath House in Britain. You can see the layout of each of the rooms in this block; cold room, cold plunge pool, hot dry rooms, hot steam room etc. This along with the museum is the "must see" of your visit.

John Clayton collected and stored, in his house, many items found during the excavation of this Roman Fort. After his death in 1890 his family built the current museum to house this collection, which has been open since 1896. Displayed are many carved and inscribed stone pieces from which so much has been learnt...

Chesters Roman Fort on Hadrian's Wall is the site of a former Roman fortress guarding the cross on the River Tyne. Much of what we now see at the site was discovered by one John Clayton, a 19th century lawyer who owned the grounds and live in the a nearby mansion. Thanks to his his interest in archeology, we now have this in-situ museum.

Much of what’s left is really just the foundation of buildings, but enough to visualise the general outline of the buildings. The useful information with picture do the rest in helping to visualise what the whole structure would’ve looked like. The best preserved building is the bathhouse overlooking the river and is one of the most impressive. Again, the site does a great job of labelling different parts of the bathhouse to help visitors visualise it.

There’s also a good indoor museum as well. The museum isn’t that big and you could get around it in about 20 minutes. It is packed with artefacts showing lots of finds from the fort and surrounding area with clear understandable labels and descriptions. Although most of the items are stone related.

Kids will like the “Oracle” in the museum. There are also activities such as archaeology for them. Sadly not on the day I visited, so do...