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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A 153 km round trip from Brampton - roughly 2 h 38 in the saddle. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's, Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be, Wolsty North tower 13a and back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 24 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Bewcastle is one of the loneliest places in Cumbria, and it has been for a very long time. Roman soldiers built an outpost fort here, about ten kilometres north of Hadrian's Wall, on a plateau whose shape the walls followed, giving it an unusual six-sided plan. It was a forward base for scouts watching the tribes beyond the frontier, and it was linked to the Wall at Birdoswald by a road. Later, a medieval castle was built into one corner of the old Roman defences, and its broken walls still stand above the beck.
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Bewcastle Roman fort is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's.
East of Carlisle, the Eden river bends through a broad red-sandstone valley, and the line of Hadrian's Wall once ran across it. Little of the wall is visible here, because stone was reused for houses and field walls over the centuries, but the course is known, and the Vallum, the great ditch and mounds on the south side, leaves faint marks in the fields. The sector between Baron's Close and the nearby farms runs through gentle pasture, with hedgerows, oak trees and cattle, and the memory of soldiers is carried by the land itself.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's comes up about 24 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 50 km into the recorded legs you reach Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be. Next is Wolsty North tower 13a.
Silloth is a small Victorian town on the Solway coast of Cumbria, built in the nineteenth century as a port and a seaside resort, with wide cobbled streets, a green along the seafront and views across the Solway Firth to the hills of Scotland. Just south of the town, at Wolsty, the Romans built a tower as part of the defences that extended Hadrian's Wall down the Cumbrian coast. Tower 13a was one of a chain of small towers and milefortlets, spaced along the shore to watch for raiders crossing the firth from the north.
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Wolsty North tower 13a, about halfway. Next is back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be.
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back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be sits at 100 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's comes up about 129 km into the recorded legs. Next is Bewcastle Roman fort.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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Bewcastle Roman fort closes the day.
Bewcastle Roman fort → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's → Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be → Wolsty North tower 13a is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wolsty North tower 13a → back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be is 27 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 Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's → Bewcastle Roman fort is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.