Why did Emperor Hadrian build a wall right across England?

Answer 1

Hadrians wall is a famous landmark in the north of england. it is a huge wall, 73 miles long, that runs across the whole country from coast to coast. it was built by the roman emperor hadrian between ad 123 and 138 to keep scottish raiders from invading england, then a province of the roman empire.

Answer 2

Walking and Hiking Hadrian's Wall Path, you are stepping back in time, in the footsteps of the 2nd century legionnaires, on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian to build a 73 mile, coast-to-coast barrier across England at its narrowest point, in an attempt to hold up the advancement of the Picts and Scots

Completed in AD122 it took the soldiers of the 2nd and 6th legions just over a decade to build Hadrian’s Wall and their astonishing achievement remains the largest ancient monument in northern Europe and a Roman World Heritage Site.

Now designated Britain's 13th and newest National Trail, you can for the first time walk the entire length of this majestic wall. Carving its way through the rugged beauty of the Northumbrian countryside, from Wallsend on the River Tyne in the east and Bowness on the Solway Firth to the west, enjoy the challenge of hiking from the East Coast to the West Coast of England.

Answer 3

Emperor Hadrian ordered a wall to be constructed across the narrow neck of land that traditionally seperated Britain from Scotland though neither had that name as such - - - then as now the people north of Hadrian's wall well Soccer Hooligans who painted their faces blue and had terrible table manners. Actually what remains of the wall is part of a more exstensive defence system but it never truly went across England.

Answer 4

Hadrian's Wall (Latin: Vallum Hadriani) was a stone and turf fortification built by the Roman Empire across the width of Great Britain to prevent military raids by the tribes of Scotland to the north, to improve economic stability and provide peaceful conditions in the Roman province of Britannia to the south, to define the frontier of the Empire physically, and to separate the unruly Selgovae tribe in the north from the Brigantes in the south and discourage them from uniting.

Answer 5

To keep out the Barbarians that were living what is now known as Scotland. It also acted as a territorial marker showing the extent of the Roman Empire up to that point.

Answer 6

To keep out the barbaric Scotchmen. It worked for a time, but now one of them is an election away from becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Answer 7

To Keep the English away from Roman territory

Answer 8

not to say the barrier wasn't important strategically, but a major reason Hadrain had it built was to construct something on a grander scale than any previous emperor

Answer 9

To keep the Scots out. He was terrified of them. It was not much good though. Neither was the Roman occupation, they got kicked out!

Answer 10

HADRIANS WALL DIMENSIONS