You have the exclusive full-time services of university teachers of Roman Frontier Archaeology, Classics, History, and other specialties as your guides throughout the tour, who have being doing such tours for many years. We can take you to almost every part of the Wall that is still visible and to excavations in progress, with additional exclusive commentaries by their directors, when they are available. We can explain for you the beginnings of Christianity in Northumbria, the Border Warfare with Scotland, the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions, nineteenth-century armaments, railways, ...

There will be some necessary walking to reach certain sites along the Wall, but our tours are not especially intended to be walking holidays, and we normally take you by road between sites, so that you can see much more in the time that you have available. For those with limited mobility we can arrange closer access to most of the main sites and museums and to a good number of the smaller sites.

We include guided visits to some of the excellent museums along the line of the Wall to see the wealth of material that has been found and to hear its significance in our understanding of the life of local people during the Roman period. We can sometimes arrange demonstrations of Roman arms and armour, Roman food, Roman textiles and clothing, and of other aspects of Roman life.

We include visits to excavations in progress and talks with their directors whenever this is possible, so that you see and hear the very latest evidence as it emerges and can sometimes even hold in your hand finds that were excavated only minutes before.

Each group receives a substantial handbook of information about aspects of Hadrian's Wall, the Roman army, Roman provincial administration, and life in Roman Britain, and each person receives a printed quick guide to the main features of the Wall, both selected from your guide's university teaching material. Equivalent material is usually available too for sites of other periods. If prior notice is given, there are also shorter, less detailed versions both for adults and for children, and all these items are available in various large-print settings for those with impaired vision.

We provide or arrange fine English refreshments for you during our tours in these remote areas, where places to eat are few and far between.

We can arrange your accommodation in our own four star guest house or in other hotels and guest houses, all anonymously inspected, graded, and approved by the English Tourism Council to high published national standards.

We can provide evening illustrated talks, depending on the facilities where you are staying, to introduce the sites to be visited the next day and to explain background information that will help you to understand and appreciate what you are about to see.

They are individually designed to suit the time that you can spend in the area, any preferences that you may have for sites to visit, and your mobility. We also try to keep a reserve schedule available in case of inclement weather, so that you still have a pleasant and worthwhile time rather than become wet, cold, miserable, or simply frustrated!

We provide tours by the day: for instance, in a single day you can visit two or perhaps three of the major sites along the Wall, in three days you can comfortably see much of the popular central section, in a week you can tour almost all of the Wall itself, including the museums, and in ten days you can cover the entire system. For Hadrian's Wall is a vast coast-to-coast in-depth frontier system with important flanking coastal defence systems and both forward and rearward supporting forts with their connecting road systems.