2017 marked 30 years since the inscription of Hadrian’s Wall as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It shares an anniversary with globally recognised places such as the Great Wall of China, Killimanjaro National Park and Westminster Abbey.
In 2005 Hadrian’s Wall became part of a much larger, much more ambitious, ‘transnational’ World Heritage Site as the German Limes were added, followed by the Antonine Wall in 2008, to create the Frontiers of the Roman Empire (FRE).