Milecastle 49, Hadrian's Wall

Name: Milecastle 49
Address: Hadrian's Wall, United Kingdom

#24 among attractions in Hadrian's Wall

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Milecastle 49 was a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall. ()

Coordinates: 54°59'27"N, 2°35'42"W

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Hadrian's Wall United Kingdom

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Milecastle 49 – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Birdoswald Roman Fort, Banna, Milecastle 48, St Mary Magdalene's Church.

~1610 ftW
Museum
Birdoswald Roman Fort, Brampton
8 min walk • Birdoswald Roman Fort was known as Banna in Roman times, reflecting the geography of the site on a triangular spur of land bounded by cliffs to the south and east commanding a broad meander of the River Irthing in Cumbria below.
~1610 ftW
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Banna, Hadrian's Wall
8 min walk • Birdoswald Roman Fort was known as Banna in Roman times, reflecting the geography of the site on a triangular spur of land bounded by cliffs to the south and east commanding a broad meander of the River Irthing in Cumbria below.
0.9 miE
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Milecastle 48, Hadrian's Wall
22 min walk • Milecastle 48, is a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall. Its remains lie near the village of Gilsland in Cumbria where it was historically known as "The King's Stables", owing to the well-preserved interior walls. Unusually a substantial section of stone stairs has survived within the milecastle.
1 miNE
Church
St Mary Magdalene's Church, Hadrian's Wall
26 min walk • St Mary Magdalene’s Church is a small mid-Victorian Anglican church on an isolated hillside in north-east Cumbria, England.
0.9 miW
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Milecastle 50, Hadrian's Wall
23 min walk • Milecastle 50 was a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall.
1.2 miSW
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Milecastle 50TW, Hadrian's Wall
30 min walk • Milecastle 50TW was a milecastle on the Turf Wall section of Hadrian's Wall. The milecastle is located close to the Birdoswald Roman Fort and is unique in that it was not replaced by a stone milecastle when the turf wall was upgraded to stone, the replacement wall instead running some 200m to the north.
1.4 miNE
Rock, Nature
Popping Stone, Hadrian's Wall
37 min walk • The Popping Stone is a group of three rounded boulders in the Irthing Gorge near the village of Gilsland. It was not always this shape, however, and photographs from before 1870 show a single, much larger stone that must have been drastically altered soon after this date.
~1420 ftNW
54°59'33"N • 2°36'4"W
Borders of the Roman Empire, Hadrian's Wall
7 min walk • The borders of the Roman Empire, which fluctuated throughout the empire's history, were realised as a combination of military roads and linked forts, natural frontiers and man-made fortifications which separated the lands of the empire from the countries beyond.

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Nearby attractions include Borders of the Roman Empire, Hadrian's Wall (7 min walk), Banna, Hadrian's Wall (8 min walk), Birdoswald Roman Fort, Brampton (8 min walk), Milecastle 48, Hadrian's Wall (22 min walk).