One of the Roman forts built in Hadrians Wall. There are path’s along Hadrian Wall that you can walk. There are no remaining complete buildings on site, but many outlines of the buildings. There are some panels to read around the site. I recommend a tour guide book to help understand the layout and history. We had a Cream Tea and an Apple torte in the Café.

Came with my daughter on Friday. After driving quite quite some time to get here which is out in the beautiful countryside we parked up to find you had to pay in the carpark. I think after paying for price to get in the carpark should be free. I think the site is beautiful but overpriced at £9.50 for an adult. The carpark was then £4 on top. We only had card payment and we didn’t want to drive to find a cash point and shop to get change as it’s in the middle of nowhere. We walked up to the information center which is an uphill walk and explained this situation and they allowed us to pay by card for parking there and they took our registration number. We were expecting it to be a big site and asked for a map just incase we got lost we were told if we wanted a map we had to buy one and was told we wouldn’t get lost. They were right it’s quite a small site and we were round it within 15/20 minutes £4 for 30 mins parking and £9.50 for a visit of around 15/20 minutes is expensive. We took a couple of photos of the wall. There was a coach load of people also at the site as well as a couple of other families. The coach load of people were climbing all over the wall and talking selfies on the top of it, the wall is around 1902 years old. Why would people do this as it will wear the wall down further and damage it. I didn’t like to see this and thought there should perhaps be signs asking people not to climb on it to help preserve the wall and it’ll hopefully last another 1902 years!

We absolutely loved our visit here. Amazing to be able to touch and see over 2000 year old history. There is a car park available for a price if you stay longer than 15 minutes. There is also a cafe, although we didn’t go there.

Birdoswald Fort is well worth visiting. However, we took the free tour on offer and it would have been very interesting and enjoyable if we could have heard what our guide and the archaeologists had to say but it was mostly impossible. My point being, there is actually no point in offering a tour if the intended information cannot be heard. Agreed who is leading a tour or speaking to a group should be taught to speak up , speak out and address the group, not to look down at the ground and at times look into the middle distance addressing the horizon a quiet voice. Very kind of any volunteers, but pointless exercise if it’s not done properly.

I’m sorry but this was an absolute waste of my £35 for a family ticket . The visitor centre would be ok on a wet day with a couple of bored children there’s lots of Lego to build your own wall fort etc . The Roman remains though are a neither extensive or particularly interesting. We then spent another £35 on two children’s lunch bags 2 sandwiches a coffee and a coke. Both children asked why we had bought them here and I wonder myself. We had hoped to inspire them ready for doing a project on Romans next term at school but think we did the opposite

I enjoyed Birdoswald as a stop on my walk of Hadrian's Wall. The museum is small considering the entrance fee, but had a couple of interesting bits and bobs. I liked the video showing the way the wall interacts with the surrounding landscape. The fort itself is less excavated than some of the others along the wall but the signs showing the changes that have been made on this site through history are fascinating. The reception staff were super friendly and helpful. There is a shelter for walkers to leave bags - not secure but out of view of the main area, and the chance to put my bag down to enjoy the museum was much appreciated. Ask staff for directions to the shelter as its a bit hidden. Had an absolutely immense vegan steakless pasty in the cafe as well, just what was required to power the rest of the day's walking.