A road with many bends downhill, it's nevertheless quite safe if you take the normal precautions. A mixture of footpaths, fields and road walking bring us to Coombe Crag, where we follow the Path through a muddy wood, before heading along the line of the vallum and turf wall for some distance. Lots of interesting Roman remains here, but we press on, following the Wall up steps to the farm of Willowford, before heading downhill into Gilsland where we reach the road and, walking a little uphill, come to the end by the bus stops....

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Poltross Burn milecastle is nearby if you want a Roman diversion, but the route takes us uphill along a green path, before heading along Hadrian's Wall Path between the massive earthworks of the Wall. Through fields and past farms, we're on the Path for a while, until we reach the road to Greenhead. The road is unpaved, but we're not going far, and paved at the end (if you don't fancy a road walk, I recommend taking the path by the terraced houses, which, once over the railway level crossing, follows the burn down into Greenhead)....

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