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 120 km to Bardon Mill; allow about 2 h 04 of riding. It goes by way of Crooks Roman temporary camp, Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and, Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari and The Roman bath house to the north east of.
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 Crooks Roman temporary camp.
The Roman army on the march built a camp every night: a rectangle of ditch and rampart, with tents inside, defended by sentries. These temporary camps, often used only once or for a short campaign, left faint traces in the landscape, and many have been found from the air in the north of England. Crooks, near Haltwhistle and Greenhead, in the area where Northumberland meets Cumbria, is one of several temporary camps along the line of Hadrian's Wall, probably used by the soldiers who built the Wall in the second century.
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Crooks Roman temporary camp comes up about 14 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and.
Brampton is a small market town at the foot of the North Pennines, and just north of it, the line of Hadrian's Wall crosses the low country between the Irthing and the Eden. On this stretch, the stone wall itself has mostly vanished, robbed for building material over the centuries, but the line can still be traced in places through fields and hedgerows, along with the vallum, the great earthwork ditch the Romans dug just south of the wall. Parts of the wall in this sector were first built of turf, and only later rebuilt in stone, which is one reason why so little survives here.
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about 30 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari.
Carlisle has been a frontier city for nearly two thousand years, and the vallum that runs across its northern edge is part of the reason. North of the River Eden, in the suburb of Stanwix, stood the largest fort on the whole of Hadrian's Wall, home to a cavalry regiment a thousand strong. The fort lies under the streets and the churchyard now, but the line of the Wall and its rear earthwork, the vallum, can be traced across the fields and gardens to the west, and walkers on the national trail follow it out of the city towards the Solway.
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Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari, about halfway. Next is The Roman bath house to the north east of.
Brampton is the kind of small Cumbrian market town that riders pass on the A69 without a second look, which is a pity, because the country just north and east of it is some of the richest Roman and medieval ground on the whole Wall. The site of the Roman bath house lies close to the town, near the remains of an early fort on the Stanegate, and like most bath houses it sat outside the fort walls, where its furnaces and the risk of fire could do less harm. Little or nothing stands above ground, so come for the setting rather than the stones.
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The Roman bath house to the north east of sits at 66 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari.
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back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari comes up about 74 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and.
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Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and write-up.
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about 90 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and. Next is back through Crooks Roman temporary camp.
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Read the complete Crooks Roman temporary camp write-up.
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back through Crooks Roman temporary camp, late in the day. Next is Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp.
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The route ends here after 120 km.
Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp → Crooks Roman temporary camp is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Crooks Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and → Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari → The Roman bath house to the north east of is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Roman bath house to the north east of → back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari → back through Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and → back through Crooks Roman temporary camp is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Crooks Roman temporary camp → Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.