Newcastle´s Walls

These walls surrounded Newcastle in the eleventh century, when the new castle was built, which gives its name to the city. You can still see Castle Keep near the entrance of the High Level Bridge. They were integrated into the modern city and some old doors to passageways from the lower to the upper city were kept. The walls were enlarged in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries to help protect against invasion during wars. They measure about 3 km long and at least a couple of meters wide. There were 17 towers and a road up the walls to get around, but they were destroyed by the expansion of