CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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259 km from Haydon Bridge to Haydon Bridge, about 4 h 26 of riding. It goes by way of Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m S, Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav, Palisade ditches and Burrow Walls Roman fort. The line favours views over speed.
A couple of kilometres west of Chollerford, the Military Road climbs onto open moorland, and at a place called Limestone Corner, the most northerly point of Hadrian's Wall, the Romans gave up. Their ditch in front of the Wall was supposed to be cut through solid rock here, and you can still see where they started: huge blocks of whinstone split by wedges and left lying in the ditch, with holes for the levers still visible, as if the workers had just walked away for lunch. Brown Moor, close by, is the site of one of several Roman temporary camps in this stretch, where soldiers camped while building the Wall or moving through the frontier zone, their outlines barely visible in the rough grass.
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Brown Moor Roman temporary camp is where the day begins. Next is Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m S.
Where Cumbria meets Northumberland in the valley of the river Irthing, the Wall climbs out of a wooded gorge on to open ground, and a Roman road called the Maiden Way ran north from the Wall towards Bewcastle and south towards Kirkby Thore, linking the frontier to the supply routes of the interior.
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Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m S comes up 35 km in. 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.
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70 km in you reach Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav. Next is Palisade ditches.
Hadrian's Wall did not simply stop at the edge of the Solway. Beyond its western end at Bowness, the Romans continued the frontier down the Cumbrian coast with a chain of milefortlets and towers, and in places with ditches and palisades, to watch over the shoreline and guard against raids across the firth from what is now south west Scotland. The palisade ditches near Silloth are part of that coastal system, faint traces in the flat land behind the dunes, and they are a reminder that the Roman frontier was a complex network that stretched far beyond the famous stone wall.
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Palisade ditches, about halfway. Next is Burrow Walls Roman fort.
On the northern edge of Workington, near the mouth of the river Derwent, a fragment of stone wall stands alone in a field, a jagged piece of masonry rising above the grass. It is part of Burrow Walls, a Roman fort that guarded the Cumbrian coast, one of the chain of defences that extended from the western end of Hadrian's Wall down the shore to watch for raiders crossing from Scotland and Ireland. Much of the fort's stone was reused in a medieval building on the site, and what survives today is modest, but it is part of the Hadrian's Wall World Heritage site and has a lonely charm, with views over the sea and the river.
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Burrow Walls Roman fort sits at 139 km, about halfway. Next is back through Palisade ditches.
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back through Palisade ditches comes up 174 km in. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav.
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209 km in you reach back through Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav. Next is back through Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m S.
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back through Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m S, late in the day. Next is Brown Moor Roman temporary camp.
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The route ends here after 259 km.
Brown Moor Roman temporary camp → Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m S is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m S → Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav → Palisade ditches is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Palisade ditches → Burrow Walls Roman fort is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Burrow Walls Roman fort → back through Palisade ditches is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Palisade ditches → back through Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav is 35 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 → back through Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m S is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m S → Brown Moor Roman temporary camp is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.