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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231 km from Silloth to Silloth, about 3 h 29 of riding. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac and back through Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and. The line favours views over speed.
Most people think Hadrian's Wall ended at Bowness-on-Solway, and in stone it did. But the Romans did not trust the shallow Solway Firth to keep raiders out, so they carried their defences on down the Cumbrian coast for many miles: a chain of small milefortlets and watchtowers, with proper forts at intervals, all the way to Maryport and beyond. Beckfoot is one of those forts, on a low bluff a few kilometres south of Silloth, looking straight across the water to Scotland. Above ground there is almost nothing, just a field with faint outlines, but aerial photos and excavations have shown the fort, its civilian settlement and its cemetery, and coastal erosion keeps nibbling at the remains.
Read the complete Beckfoot Roman fort write-up.
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Beckfoot Roman fort is where the day begins. 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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Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac.
Just north of Hexham, the A road climbs out of the Tyne valley and meets the Roman frontier on a high, windy shoulder of Northumberland. Here, near Acomb, Wall and the crossing of the North Tyne at Chollerford, the line of Hadrian's Wall and its vallum runs across open farmland, sometimes visible as a low bank, sometimes followed by the road itself. Like every stretch of the frontier, it belongs to the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and this middle section is where the wall starts to feel serious, heading west into the wild central crags.
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about 115 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and, late in the day. Next is Beckfoot Roman fort.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Beckfoot Roman fort write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Beckfoot Roman fort. That is the ride.
Beckfoot Roman fort → Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and is 62 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 and vallum between the trac is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac → back through Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and → Beckfoot Roman fort is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.