CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Brampton it runs 170 km to Brampton; allow about 2 h 33 of riding. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav, Campfield, Mawbray Sandpit tower 16b and back through Campfield. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 between the east end of Dav.
Carlisle was the western hub of Hadrian's Wall, and on its northern edge, at Stanwix, stood the largest fort on the whole frontier. Known to the Romans as Uxelodunum, it held a cavalry regiment about a thousand strong, and its commander was one of the most important officers on the wall. Little of it is visible now, since the fort lies under the streets and gardens of a suburb, but the line of the wall can be traced through the town, in parts of the pavement and the shape of the streets, and a short surviving section lies in a quiet corner near the river Eden.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav comes up 25 km in. Next is Campfield.
Out on the Solway coast west of Carlisle, the land flattens into salt marsh, peat bog and wide tidal sands, and the sky takes over. Campfield Marsh, near Bowness-on-Solway, is a nature reserve run by the RSPB, a mix of salt marsh, wet grassland and raised bog, and in winter it fills with tens of thousands of geese, barnacle and pink-footed, arriving from the Arctic, along with waders that feed on the mud at low tide. Across the firth, the town of Annan and the Scottish hills are visible on a clear day.
Read the complete Campfield write-up.
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50 km in you reach Campfield. Next is Mawbray Sandpit tower 16b.
When people talk about Hadrian's Wall they usually mean the stone barrier across the neck of England, but the system continued down the Cumbrian coast for dozens of kilometres, as a chain of small forts, called milefortlets, and watchtowers facing the Irish Sea. Tower 16b, at Mawbray, was one of those lookouts, standing on the low, windswept coast between Silloth and Maryport. The Romans feared raids by sea, and a line of towers gave warning along the coast, with signals passing from one to the next.
Read the complete Mawbray Sandpit tower 16b write-up.
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Mawbray Sandpit tower 16b, about halfway. Next is back through Campfield.
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Read the complete Campfield write-up.
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back through Campfield sits at 99 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav.
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Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav comes up 124 km in. Next is Boothby Roman fort.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Boothby Roman fort write-up.
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Boothby Roman fort closes the day.
Boothby Roman fort → Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav → Campfield is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Campfield → Mawbray Sandpit tower 16b is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mawbray Sandpit tower 16b → back through Campfield is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Campfield → back through Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav → Boothby Roman fort is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.