Newcastle: City Walls
Description
Around the city there are still some substantial fragments of the city walls, built to protect the city from raids from the Scots, it wasn't until the thrones of England and Scotland were unified by James VI/I in 1603 that Newcastle could relax a little, and since then the walls have been left to decay to the few elements that remain today. Interestingly it took the city 100 years to build the two miles of walls around the centre, against the Romans taking less than 10 years to build the 80 or so miles of Hadrian's Wall
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Latitude: 54.971481; Longitude: -1.606563
What3Words: tame.scare.doors
Disclaimer: Details correct at time of writing (13/08/2009), and on time of last update (17/08/2009) but may no longer be accurate, particularly if some time has passed.