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Tues-Sat 12-2.30pm & 5.30-9pm
Sun 12-5pm
Vallum Farm
Military Road
East Wallhouses
NE18 0LL
01434 672 406
www.vallumfarm.co.uk
You know the phrase “middle of nowhere”? Perhaps it was first coined by some miserable Roman footsoldier, stuck in a never-ending Northumbrian winter at Milecastle 18, close to the Roman Wall.
“Ad vallum horribilis aportet prandium calidum,” he might have shouted at the March snow, “ubi Davidus Kennedi est?” – which is an appalling translation of “This fortification is hell on earth – I need some decent hot grub: where’s David Kennedy when you need him?”