Seabegs Wood

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Free entry for everyone

Entry

Free for everyone

Pricing details

Free entry for everyone; no membership card is needed.

ParkingParking not known

The Trust's page does not say how parking is charged.

Parking details

Historic Scotland names no parking: the wood is 1 mile west of Bonnybridge, reached from the B816 Castlecary to Bonnybridge road just south of the Forth and Clyde Canal by a signposted track. The Antonine Wall partnership suggests parking at the canal lock car park at Underwood, walking east along the canal path, through the pend under the canal and up the signposted track, about a mile in all. OpenStreetMap recorded in July 2025 that the Underwood car park entrance was blocked, so check before relying on it. No charge or free statement is published, so the status is recorded as unknown.

Driving pin: the kissing gate and signposted track on the B816 beside the canal, about 450 m east of Historic Scotland's own pin, where the wood begins; the B816 here is a fast road without a pavement. Historic Scotland gives journey planners only.

About

In an attractive oak wood beside the Forth and Clyde Canal, a mile west of Bonnybridge, Seabegs Wood is the best place to see the Military Way, the Roman road that linked all the forts of the Antonine Wall. It survives as a cambered mound 7 m wide with its road surface still visible, about 30 m south of the rampart. For some 400 m through the wood you can trace the whole line of the frontier: the ditch, more than 12 m wide and 2 m deep, the mound outside it, the rampart and the road. The Wall was ordered by Antoninus Pius after AD 140 and abandoned in the 160s. A Roman fortlet found in 1977 at the west end of the wood shows the Wall turning north here to take the higher ground, though nothing of it can be seen. A signposted track leads in from a kissing gate on the B816, or walk the canal towpath.

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Seabegs WoodOpen at all times; an unstaffed open woodland site, no hours published

Opening times may change at short notice.

Historic Scotland: 'Seabegs Wood is free to visit and is open year-round.' No hours, closures or notices on 21 October 2026. The Antonine Wall is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site.

Strong footwear is recommended. The ditch, outer mound, rampart and Military Way run for about 400 m through the wood; the ground varies between paved stretches, loose surfaces and grassy fields. No toilets or other facilities.

Photo: The broad grassy ditch of the Antonine Wall running between banks under oak trees in Seabegs Wood. Jim Smillie, CC BY-SA 2.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antonine_Wall,_Ditch_-_geograph.org.uk_-_7527813.jpg. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0. Resized and cropped for display; derivatives retain the source licence.