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 22 of riding. The stops in between: The vallum between the field boundary sout, Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou, Low Mire and Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house. The line favours views over speed.
Bean Burn is another of those names that sounds as if it belongs in a children's book, and the Roman camp here is one of the less visible members of the frontier zone along Hadrian's Wall. A temporary camp was a rough overnight enclosure for a column of soldiers, thrown up with a ditch and a bank and abandoned the next morning, and Bean Burn 2 is one of a family of such camps scattered across the moors south of the wall. If you go looking for stone, you will be disappointed. What you will find is open moorland, with a wide sky and the quiet that belongs to a place where the nearest road is a single-track lane.
Read the complete Bean Burn 2 Roman temporary camp write-up.
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Bean Burn 2 Roman temporary camp is where the day begins. Next is The vallum between the field boundary sout.
Not every stretch of Hadrian's Wall is the dramatic crag-top masonry of the postcards, and this is one of the quieter parts: a section of the vallum, the great ditch-and-mound earthwork the Romans dug behind the wall, running across farmland near Brampton in Cumbria. The stone wall here was largely robbed out long ago for farms and churches, so what survives is often a long, soft hollow in the grass, a line you only notice once someone points it out, and then can't stop seeing.
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The vallum between the field boundary sout comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou.
The vallum is the strangest part of Hadrian's Wall, and a good place to see it is on the flat ground near Bowness-on-Solway. It is a broad, deep ditch with a flat bottom, flanked by two mounds of earth set back from the edge, and it ran along the south side of the wall for its whole length. Nobody is certain what it was for, but the best theory is that it marked the rear boundary of a military zone, a line that civilians could cross only at controlled points, which fits with the idea of the wall as a border of customs and security as well as defence.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou write-up.
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about 63 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou. 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.
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Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house sits at 165 km, about halfway. Next is back through Low Mire.
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back through Low Mire comes up about 213 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou.
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Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou write-up.
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about 249 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou. Next is back through The vallum between the field boundary sout.
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back through The vallum between the field boundary sout, late in the day. Next is Bean Burn 2 Roman temporary camp.
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Read the complete Bean Burn 2 Roman temporary camp write-up.
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The route ends here after 312 km.
Bean Burn 2 Roman temporary camp → The vallum between the field boundary sout is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The vallum between the field boundary sout → Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou → Low Mire is 36 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 Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou → back through The vallum between the field boundary sout is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The vallum between the field boundary sout → Bean Burn 2 Roman temporary camp is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.