Chesters Fort

Chesters Fort is just a half mile from the roundabout at Chollerford so we strolled along to it. It cost the same as Segedunum as it is also an English Heritage site. There is a really good museum with finds from all along the wall. Chesters Fort had been saved by a chap called Clayton, a gifted Victorian. When bits of the wall were being sold off for building materials he kept buying the lots up and saving them.

Curiously the wall goes through the middle of Chesters and from the fort the line of the wall going across the river (see previous photo- bridge abutment from fort), and up towards Brunton turret and Planetrees could be seen. The bridge no longer survives although masonry can be seen in the river and on the opposite bank.
Whilst we were in Hexham we had learned from experience and booked accommodation for the night in a bunk barn at Green Carts Farm. It would be £10 each. Green Carts is about 1.5 miles from Chollerford.
After leaving Chesters we were going to walk to Green Carts, leave our bags and bus it on to Housesteads Fort. We walked about a mile to the other side of Walwick, then changed our plan to go to Housesteads first because the bus was due.