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 Carlisle it runs 204 km to Carlisle; allow about 2 h 51 of riding. It goes by way of The vallum and early Roman road between th, Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4 and back through The vallum and early Roman road between th. The line favours views over speed.
Carlisle is where the Roman frontier met the border of two kingdoms, and the city holds all of that history in a compact space. The Romans built a fort here called Luguvalium, beside the River Eden, and it was an important base for the western end of the Wall. In the Middle Ages the red sandstone castle was the stronghold of the English border, and Mary, Queen of Scots, was held there for two months in 1568 after fleeing across the Solway. The cathedral, one of the smallest in England, has a huge east window and a painted ceiling of gold stars on blue. Tullie House Museum tells the story from the Romans to the border reivers, the raiding families of the borderland.
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Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps is where the day begins. Next is The vallum and early Roman road between th.
From the Military Road near Sewingshields, look south and you will see a long, straight scar running across the moorland: two mounds and a ditch, keeping pace with the Wall a short way behind it. That is the vallum, the great earthwork the Romans dug along the south side of the frontier to mark a military zone, and running alongside it here are traces of an early Roman road. This stretch near Housesteads is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site, and it is one of the places where the full layout of the frontier, wall, ditch, vallum and road, is easiest to read in the landscape.
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The vallum and early Roman road between th comes up about 51 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4.
Newcastle is not where most people expect the Wall to end, but the Romans did not think of it as the end. The eastern terminus is at Wallsend, a few kilometres downriver, where the fort of Segedunum stood at the point where the Tyne widens, and from there the Wall ran west through what is now the centre of Newcastle. Wall mile 4 lies on that line, and Westgate Road, the main road west out of the city, follows it, so you may be riding along the line of the Wall without any sign. The Romans had a bridge over the Tyne at Newcastle, called Pons Aelius, the Bridge of Aelius, after Hadrian's family name, and the city grew up around the crossing.
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about 102 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4. Next is back through The vallum and early Roman road between th.
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back through The vallum and early Roman road between th, late in the day. Next is Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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Back at Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps. That is the ride.
Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps → The vallum and early Roman road between th is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The vallum and early Roman road between th → Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4 is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4 → back through The vallum and early Roman road between th is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The vallum and early Roman road between th → Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.