CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Bardon Mill it runs 312 km to Bardon Mill; allow about 5 h 30 of riding. On the way it passes Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med, Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be, Low Mire and Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 34 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
There is not much to see at Bean Burn, and that is rather the point. East of Haltwhistle, in the South Tyne valley a little below the line of Hadrian's Wall, archaeologists have traced the outline of a Roman temporary camp: a rectangle of low banks and ditches, often barely visible except from the air or in raking evening light. Camps like this were thrown up by soldiers on the march or during construction of the Wall, a night's or a season's shelter surrounded by a turf rampart and a ditch, with leather tents pitched inside in neat rows. Northumberland has an unusual concentration of them, and they tell a quieter story than the forts: of thousands of men moving across this landscape, digging in, moving on.
Read the complete Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp write-up.
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Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp is where the day begins. Next is Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med.
Brampton is the sort of small Cumbrian market town that makes a good place to stop for lunch without any plan to do so. A few miles east of Carlisle, in the green valley of the River Irthing, it has an octagonal Moot Hall in the market place, built in the early nineteenth century, and a main street of sandstone houses and tea rooms. Market day brings stalls to the square, and the town has the unhurried feel of a place that knows where it is. The old church that gives this stop its name stands outside the town, on a rise by the river, with the grass mounds of a Roman fort beside it.
Read the complete Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med write-up.
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Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be.
The small Roman fort at Drumburgh sat on a low rise above the Solway marshes, guarding a stretch of Hadrian's Wall where the frontier ran along the edge of the firth towards its western end at Bowness. Nothing much survives of the fort itself, but its stones did not go far. Drumburgh Castle, a fortified farmhouse built in the sixteenth century by the Dacre family, is clearly made from reused Roman masonry, and you can still pick out dressed blocks and even the odd carved fragment set into its walls.
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about 62 km into the recorded legs you reach Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be. Next is Low Mire.
Low Mire lies in the quiet farmland behind the Cumbrian coast, near Dearham and Maryport, where the land slopes gently down to the Solway Firth and the hills of southern Scotland rise across the water. It is an area of small fields, hedges and scattered farms, with the Lake District fells visible to the south-east on clear days.
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Low Mire, about halfway. Next is Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house.
Walls Castle is the odd name for a Roman bath house, and the building still stands to a height of about four metres, one of the tallest Roman structures in northern England. It stood outside the fort of Glannoventa at Ravenglass, a harbour station at the meeting of three rivers, the Irt, the Mite and the Esk, and in the dry shelter of the dunes it has survived because its walls were thick and well built. You can walk around it on a short path from the village, and see niches and a doorway in the thick walls. The fort itself lies mostly under farmland and the railway.
Read the complete Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house write-up.
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Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house sits at 164 km, about halfway. Next is back through Low Mire.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Low Mire write-up.
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back through Low Mire comes up about 213 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be write-up.
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about 250 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be. Next is back through Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med write-up.
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back through Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med, late in the day. Next is Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp write-up.
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The route ends here after 312 km.
Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp → Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med → Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be → Low Mire is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Low Mire → Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house → back through Low Mire is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Low Mire → back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be → back through Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med → Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.