Milecastle 23, Hadrian's Wall

Name: Milecastle 23
Address: Hadrian's Wall, United Kingdom

#155 among attractions in Hadrian's Wall

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Milecastle 23 was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian's Wall. Its remains exist as a low, grass covered platform with traces of an external ditch. It is located to the south of the B6318 Military Road around 1.5 kilometres west of its junction with the A68. ()

Coordinates: 55°0'55"N, 2°2'39"W

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Hadrian's Wall United Kingdom

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Milecastle 23 – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Aydon Castle, Hexham Bridge, Corbridge Bridge, Corbridge Vicar's Pele.

2.4 miSE
Forts and castles
Aydon Castle, Corbridge
62 min walk • Aydon Castle, previously sometimes called Aydon Hall, is a fortified manor house at Aydon near to the town of Corbridge, Northumberland, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, and is designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.
3.3 miSW
Bridge
Hexham Bridge, Hexham
85 min walk • Hexham Bridge is a road bridge in Northumberland, England linking Hexham with the North Tyne valley. It lies north of the town of Hexham and is the main access to the A69 bypass.
3.2 miS
Bridge
Corbridge Bridge, Corbridge
82 min walk • Corbridge Bridge is a 17th-century stone bridge across the River Tyne at Corbridge, Northumberland, England. The bridge used to carry the A68 road over the River Tyne, but since the opening of the Hexham bypass the A68 now crosses by the Styford Bridge, 3 miles downstream of Corbridge.
3 miS
Tower
Corbridge Vicar's Pele, Corbridge
77 min walk • Corbridge Vicar's Pele is a pele tower in the village of Corbridge, Northumberland, England. It was a three-storey defensive pele tower, with one room to each storey, built in the churchyard in 1318, and used as the vicarage for the adjacent church.
2.6 miS
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Corbridge Lion, Corbridge
68 min walk • The Corbridge Lion, Northumberland, England, is an ancient Roman free-standing sandstone sculpture of a male lion standing on a prone animal on a semi-cylindrical coping stone base.
1.7 miSE
Forts and castles
Halton Castle, Hadrian's Wall
44 min walk • Halton Castle is a pele tower and grade I listed building situated close to Hadrian's Wall to the north of the village of Corbridge in Northumberland, England. The tower was first recorded in 1382 and it is still present today. It has four storeys and a basement with a stone vault.
2 miS
Forts and castles
Beaufront Castle, Hadrian's Wall
50 min walk • Beaufront Castle is a privately owned 19th-century country house near Hexham, Northumberland, England. It is a Grade I listed building. A pele tower was recorded at Beaufront in 1415.
3.8 miSW
Bridge
Constantius Bridge
98 min walk • Constantius Bridge is a modern concrete bridge across the River Tyne about 1 mile north west of Hexham, Northumberland, England. The bridge carries the A69 road over the River Tyne and forms part of the Hexham bypass. It is the last crossing of the River Tyne before it splits into the North Tyne and South Tyne.
2.6 miS
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Coria, Hadrian's Wall
67 min walk • Coria was a fort and town 2.5 miles south of Hadrian's Wall, in the Roman province of Britannia at a point where a big Roman north–south road bridged the River Tyne and met another Roman road, which ran east–west between Coria and Luguvalium in the Solway Plain.
0.9 miE
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Portgate, Hadrian's Wall
24 min walk • The Portgate was a fortified gateway, constructed as part of Hadrian's Wall where it crossed the Roman road now known as Dere Street, which preceded Hadrian's Wall by around 50 years.
3.4 miW
Bridge
Chollerford Bridge, Hadrian's Wall
87 min walk • Chollerford Bridge is a stone bridge that replaced an earlier medieval bridge crossing the River North Tyne at Chollerford, Northumberland, England. It is a Grade II listed building.