The Roman Centurion gets ready to walk to Wall

Walk through Wall with a Roman Centurion

Walkers met a real ancient Roman Centurion in full armour during a celebration of a new netwrok of historic trails around the village of Wall, near Lichfield.

Visitors and local people can now enjoy a superb network of trails exploring the village's fascinating history and beautiful leafy environment.

The heritage footpath network is funded from a new pot of cash, distributed by the County Council from a fund created from a levy on quarrying operations - the Staffordshire Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund.

The £15,000 project is being co-ordinated by Green Arc, the partnership which exists to make the links between economic revival and environmental enhancement.

Linking existing footpaths and green lanes, the network will help visitors go on a journey back through time.

The Romans settled the area and Wall became a busy military town at the crossroads of two vital highways - Watling Street and Rycknield Street. Wall was at the heart of the Romano-British world.   

Staffordshire County Council's Archaeological experts have been called in to create a vivid interpretation panel for the trail which will link in to the network of clear "heritage" marker posts. There's a info-leaflet too.

Green Arc chief Jane Rochelle said: "Wall is a wonder - a multi-layered living experience of the power of history. The heritage trail project fuses past and present, nature and community, environment and economic revival. Green Arc is helping to make those links."

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