CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Brampton it runs 72 km to Brampton; allow about 1 h 18 of riding. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La, Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 23 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Brampton is a small red-sandstone market town on the edge of the northern Pennines, and just outside it, on the line of the old Stanegate road, lay Boothby, one of the Roman forts that guarded the frontier before Hadrian's Wall was built. There is nothing much to see on the ground now, only a field and a slight rise, but the location is a good jumping-off point for some of the best riding and the best Wall sites in Cumbria.
Read the complete Boothby Roman fort write-up.
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Boothby Roman fort is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La.
Just east of Carlisle, near the village of Scotby, the Wall leaves almost no mark on the land. Here, at the western end of the Roman frontier, it was built first of turf and timber before being rebuilt in stone, and much of that stone has since been carried off to build farmhouses, churches and field walls. What survives is mostly buried, a faint line in the pasture or a slight ridge followed by a hedge. The vallum, the great earthwork that ran behind the wall, sometimes shows as a shallow trough in the fields. Yet this quiet stretch is part of the same World Heritage site as the dramatic crags further east, and walking the Hadrian's Wall Path through it gives a sense of continuity across the whole country.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La comes up 20 km in. 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.
Read the complete Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be write-up.
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39 km in you reach Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La, late in the day. Next is Boothby Roman fort.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Boothby Roman fort write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Boothby Roman fort. That is the ride.
Boothby Roman fort → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La → Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La → Boothby Roman fort is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.