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To: Skooz

There is a town called Walls End in England along the borders, and according to my guidebook a remaining few stones are in the park there as it is where the wall ends. While driving, we asked a few locals where Walls End Park was, they didn’t know that was how the town got its name, or exactly where in the park this piece of the wall might be. We found it...just a few stones left of it. There are large parts of the wall still intact marking the border between Scotland and England, built by Roman Empire Hadrian who vanquished England but couldn’t quite get a handle on them varmint Scots, so he built the wall. I’m a naturalized American (legally, too) but have dual nationality as a Scot, too. Shucks, I can never be President coz’ I’m a dual national.


23 posted on 01/09/2019 10:44:02 AM PST by kiltie65
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To: kiltie65
"There are large parts of the wall still intact marking the border between Scotland and England"

Actually this is a popular misconception. The Wall is not and has never been the border between Scotland and England - it's entirely within England and the Scottish border is many miles to the north, especially at the eastern end (at the time the wall was built, the Scots were still in Ireland and the English were in Angeln).

Glad you liked it there, though, it's a wonderful part of the country:-)

37 posted on 01/10/2019 2:50:45 AM PST by Da_Shrimp (Dum vivimus, vivamus!)
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