Aydon Castle to Chester's Roman Fort

This part of the walk, from Aydon Castle to Chester's Fort, was easy and at a slight grade upwards while walking West.

 This is Halton Castle and estate.

 Lovely countryside.

 The tower, back and to the left was built in 1382. The rest of the structures were built in the late 1600's. It is the home of the Baronets of the Blacketts.

 On the North side of Halton castle, where it meets the Hadrian's wall path, is the site of Halton Chester's Fort or Onnum/Hunnum. The only part that was excavated was a Roman bath in 1827 and the rest is awaiting a dedicated team and permission.

 This was our first look at the vallum, or ditch built alongside of the Hadrian's Wall.

We saw this pub, the Errington Arms, on our walk so we stopped in for a half pint of cider.

Here we first saw actual wall! It is also the section that changes from 2 meters wide going East to 3 meters wide going West. Pretty cool.

 There were some wooded areas along our walk.

 Sheep too!

St Oswalds, named after a King who was responsible for spreading christianity throughout Northumbia in the 600's.

 A very large oak tree.

 Almost at Chester's Fort.