Walking The Antonine Wall Trail, Kirkintilloch to Castlecary, Scotland, directions and Roman history
This is the walking route from Kirkintilloch to Castlecary, following the path of the Antonine Wall, built by the Romans after they had invaded Scotland. The film shows what remains today of the wall, the Roman forts and some beautiful scenery. We walked the best preserved and most scenic parts of the wall, between Kirkintilloch and Falkirk, over 2 days.
You will have heard of Hadrian’s Wall, but you may not be aware that they built a second wall further north, the Antonine Wall. The Romans built this wall between AD 142-3, in Scotland and occupied it for at least 20 years. It extended over 37 miles from the Clyde to the Forth.
Day One – This has a really scenic route, from Kirkintilloch to Twechar. You will visit Bar Hill, the best preserved fort along the Antonine Wall. There is beautiful scenery and great stretches of the Antonine Wall ditch from Castle Hill, Dullator and also at Toll Park. The film gives directions for the walking route which was just under 8 miles long approx.
We started our walk from Banks Road, Kirkintilloch, from there walk down the track and head east along the canal footpath. At the Tintock Wood sign keep left and then cross under the canal, through the tunnel and continue along the path east until you reach Twechar where you get the first glimpse of the Antonine Wall ditch. Cross over the bridge and continue down main street until you reach the war memorial, turn left up the track until you reach Bar Hill Roman Fort. Head up Castle Hill, for great views, before walking one of the most impressive sections of the ditch, as you head down the slope.
If you are in need of refreshments when you reach Twechar, there is a pub on the right of main street or further up the road you will find the Healthy Living Centre, which offers basic food and drinks.
After Castle Hill follow the sign-posted path, before you cross the B802. Continue to follow the path to Croy Hill, with spectacular scenery and views. The fort is north of Croy Hill on the descent although nothing remains today. Turn left at the cross path then take the next right towards Castlecary. When you come to the road head right and walk along it. When you come to a railway bridge take the left path and follow the path until you come to another railway tunnel, pass through it. You will see some spectacular ditch in this section at Dullator. Continue along the path, past Westerwood farm, which sits on the site of a Roman fort. Be prepared the track at the north of Cumbernauld airport is overgrown and difficult to walk through. The stretch of the ditch at Tollpark is much better and this has a long section of ditch and pleasant views to the north. This brings you to the end of the day 1 route. If you are following the 2 day walking route, when you reach Wyndford Road make your way to your accommodation. If you are staying at the Castlecary Hotel continue along the walking path directly ahead, until you reach the back of the Hotel. If you are staying at the Black Bull in Cumbernauld Village, take a right and walk down to the B816, where you can catch the X37 to the village or continue walking if you have the stamina. Please note the last bus is 7pm approx, so check times. Directly opposite the bus stop is the Wardpark Film Studios where they filmed some of The Avengers Age of Ultron and The Outlander tv series.
If you want to do the full 2 day walk and are driving to the area you can park your car near Lenzie train station then catch an X87 bus from Kirkintilloch Rd to John Street, which is close to Banks Rd. At the end of day 2 you can take the train from Falkirk back to Lenzie.
Tips: My advice come prepared for all types of weather, it didn’t stop raining on day 2!
Highlights:
0:02:42 - Bar Hill Roman Fort, Twechar.
0:04:53 - Castle Hill Ditch.
0:06:43 - Croy Hill Fort and ditch.
0:09:03 - East Dullatur.
0:11:04 - Tollpark.
Music credits:
Thank you to all artists whose music I have used in this film.
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Monument by Track Tribe (Roman Britain intro title)
Song of Sadhana by Jesse Gallagher
Venkatesananda by Jesse Gallagher
Mind Stream by Chris Haugen
The Romans featured in the film are the re-enactment group the Ermine Street Guard.
Thank you for watching my film, if you enjoyed it then please feel free to like it and leave a comment. Why don’t you have a look at some of the other films on my channel. I have made a number of films about Roman Britain and one showing all the remaining Antonine wall sites that you can still visit today. Don’t forget to like my film which will encourage me to finish editing day two where we walked from Castlecary to Falkirk. The rights for all trademarks and copyrighted material remains with the owners, no infringement of copyright is intended. Any content used here is with the intention of fair use. Film © MrFord4210
Walking the Antonine Wall Trail - Castlecary to Falkirk, Scotland, directions and Roman history
This is the walking route from Castlecary to Falkirk, following the path of the Antonine Wall, built by the Romans after their invasion of Scotland (Caledonia). The film shows what remains today of the wall, the Roman forts and some beautiful scenery. We walked the best preserved and most scenic parts of the wall, between Kirkintilloch and Falkirk, over two days, this film shows our walk on day two.
You will have heard of Hadrian’s Wall, which the Romans built across Britain, but you may not be aware that they built a second wall further north, the Antonine Wall. The Romans built this wall between AD 142-4, in Scotland, which they occupied for at least 20 years. It extended over 37 miles from the Clyde to the Forth. On day one we had walked the scenic route from Kirkintilloch to Castlecary, where we stayed overnight. Along the way we had visited Bar Hill fort and the well-preserved ditch at East Dullator.
Day Two – This walking route boasts some of the best preserved stretches of the Antonine Wall ditch at Seabegs Wood, Rough Castle, Watling Lodge and Bantaskin. It also has the impressive earth fortifications of the Roman fort at Rough Castle. You can also visit the impressive feat of modern design and engineering, the Falkirk Wheel. The film also gives directions for the walking route which was just under 10 miles long approx.
Route:
1/ We started from Catlecary Road, Castlecary, cross the bridge over the motorway and then take the first right to visit the site of the Castlecary fort.
2/ Retrace your steps and continue east briefly along the B816, taking the first path on your left which takes you over a bridge to the Forth and Clyde canal towpath, which you follow east.
3/After about 2.5km you will come to Seabegs Wood, on the opposite side of the canal. Follow the footpath on your left, through the underpass to visit the scenic tree-lined ditch in the wood.
4/ Retrace your steps and continue east along the canal towpath until you reach and cross the road bridge over the canal at Bonnybridge. Continue down Broomhill Road, turn left down the winding Foundry Road, over the railway bridge and eventually you will arrive at Rough Castle.
5/ After Rough Castle cross over the ditch and continue east, over a stile and through the woods to Falkirk Wheel for refreshments.
6/ Make your way to Tamfourhill Road, along which there are glimpses of overgrown ditch from a number of paths.
7/ Shortly on your right is a well-preserved stretch of tree-lined wall at Watling Lodge.
8/Continue along Glenfuir Road until reach close on your right, follow this to Bantaskin, where you will find another picturesque tree-lined stretch of wall.
9/Exit down the steps into Queens Drive, make your way to the B8080, eastwards to Callandar Park, for another stretch of ditch. Callandar House if open has refreshments and an exhibition of the Wall.
10/This brings you to the end of the day 2 route. If you are following the 2 day walking route make your to the nearby Falkirk High train station, where you can catch a train to Lenzie station to return to your car and from there to your accommodation.
Tips: My advice come prepared for all types of weather, it didn’t stop raining on day 2!
Highlights:
CHANGE TIMES
0:01:14 - Castlecary Roman Fort
0:02:54 – Seabegs Wood
0:04:58 – Rough Castle Roman Fort
0:10:05 - Falkirk Wheel
0:10:51 – Watling Lodge
0:11:55 – Bantaskin
0:12:40 – Callendar Wood
Music credits:
Thank you to all artists whose music I have used in this film.
Monument by Track Tribe (Roman Britain intro title)
and Mind Stream Chris Haugen
courtesy of You Tube Audio Library
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
Courtesy of Epidemic Sounds
• Fly on the Wall by Deskant
• Fields of Scotland by Trabant 33
• Out of Glory by Trabant 33
• Levitate Cumulonimbus by Out Linear
• How to Fall by Anthony Earls
• Governor of the North by Jo Wandrini
The Romans featured in the film are the fantastic re-enactment group the Ermine Street Guard, who put on displays across the country.
Google maps images courtesy of Google maps and Imagery copyright 2021 Getmapping plc,
Infoterra Ltd and Bluesky, Maxar Technologies, Map data copyright 2021. The rights for all trademarks and copyrighted material remains with the owners, no infringement of copyright is intended. Any content used here is with the intention of fair use.
Thank you for watching my film, if you enjoyed it then please feel free to like it and leave a comment. Why don’t you have a look at some of the other films on my channel. I have made a number of films about Roman Britain.
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25/07/18 - An Hour At Bishopbriggs and Lenzie
A short selection of videos from an hour worth of time spent at Bishopbriggs and Lenzie on 25th July 2018. Unfortunatley I don't have records of each particular service seen in the videos, but this was at a time when the E&G route provided a colourful mix of trains - we see Class 170s, 365 (Happy Trains), an HST on Driver training runs, some 380s and some 158s. A colourful mix if I do say so myself. Enjoy
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The Famine Irish in Glasgow
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ScotRail InterCity Push-pull train from the 1980's makes a return!
ScotRail introduced a push-pull service Glasgow-Edinburgh in 1979, using Class 47/7 locomotives and Mark III coaches, with a converted Mark II DBSO at the Glasgow end of each formation. These trains operated for about 10 years, before being displaced by Class 158 DMU's. The DBSO's found their way to other operators. Locomotive Services Limited and Intercity railtours now have a restored train, which operated a railtour round Scotland in February 2023. The schedule was:-
Friday 24th Feb. - Crewe to Edinburgh
Saturday 25th Feb. Edinburgh-Glasgow-Inverness
Sunday 26th Feb. - Inverness-Aberdeen-Glasgow-Edinburgh-Crewe
I was hoping to see a fast run between Glasgow and Edinburgh, but according to Realtime Trains the runs between those two cities were delayed in the bottleneck between Haymarket and Waverley in each direction.
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(4K) Trains at Lenzie E&G Line 15/2/19
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With times are charging on the E&G I decided to try out Lenzie Railway which is near to Croy and this station is a amazing station to film on a February afternoon because due to the weather is very good this was filmed on Friday 15th February 2019.
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A Short Time At Lenzie - FT 37025+402 | 27/5/2019
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Trains at Lenzie | 24/09/18
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How times have changed. Lenzie is just over 6 miles out of Glasgow Queen Street on the Edinburgh - Glasgow route. Which is now fully under wires and services between the 2 cities are now all electric.
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INCLUDES: ScotRail 170's, 158's, 380's, brand new 385's and class 365's!
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Train ride from Glasgow Queen Street to Stirling
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Bishopbriggs 00:49
Lenzie 01:40
Croy 03:18
Larbert 05:46
Stirling arrival 08:47
Rolling stock: Abellio Scotrail Hitachi Class 385 AT200
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09.33 Glasgow-Dundee train 1A81 pulls away from Lenzie station, Sunday morning 15th January 2023. Two Turbostar units 170 404 and 170 405.
First Class on ScotRail eXpress Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Queen Street
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An overview of North Staffordshire Community Rail Partnership
An overview of North Staffordshire Comunity Rail Partnership, covering the line from Crewe to Derby. Offering many opportunities whether that be: Football, Pottery, Railway history or a day at the races.
CrossCountry have used state-of-the-art augmented reality scenes to promote the work of community rail partnerships across the UK.
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61994 'The Great Marquess' on the 1Z29
LNER Class K4 Gresley 2-6-0 steam locomotive 61994 'The Great Marquess' on the 1Z29 11:17 Thornton North D.P.L. to Fort William, passing through Lenzie Station at 13:50 on Sunday 22nd April 2012, as part of the Great Britain V Railtour.
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(4K) Trains Between Edinburgh & Glasgow The E&G 27/10/20
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After a month sinces the E&G Line was closed due to flooding I decided to take a trip up to Scotland and the E&G Line had been on my do list for a while so on Tuesday 27th October I decided to try out four stations on the E&G line overall the line it's one of the busiest routes in Scotland due to the Covid outbreak the timetable was limited but I still mangered to get some shots on my visit.
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Scotland's Scenic Drives: The Clyde Coast (Part 6) Gourock
In this Video (Part 6), we will be driving through the seaside town of Gourock.
Looking for day trip, staycation, road trip ideas in Scotland, look no further!
As part of my work i get to drive through some of the most outstanding scenery on some of Scotland's best and most scenic roads which I would like to share with you.
The whole series of clips is a drive from Glasgow along the Clyde coast and finally ending up in Ardrossan. This can easily be added to the Best of scotland road trips. Views over the River Clyde, Firth of Clyde and beyond to the Isles of Bute, Arran and Cumbrae. Passing by the historic towns of Paisley, Erskine, Port Glasgow, Greenock, Gourock, Wemyss Bay, Ardrossan and finally Saltcoats. All of these locations offer great opportunities for staycations and easily accessible daytrips from either Glasgow, Edinburgh or all over the central belt.
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