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 Maryport it runs 282 km to Maryport; allow about 4 h 01 of riding. It goes by way of Pasture House, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's, Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp and Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun. The line favours views over speed.
The wall did not stop at the Solway. Along the Cumbrian coast, south of Bowness, the Romans built a chain of small forts, milecastles and watchtowers to guard against raiders arriving by sea from across the Irish Sea, and Brownrigg milecastle 22 is one of them. It stands on a low ridge above the shore near Maryport, with views across the Solway Firth to the hills of Scotland, a line of blue on a clear day. Little remains but a platform and some stonework, but the situation says everything.
Read the complete Brownrigg milefortlet 22 write-up.
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Brownrigg milefortlet 22 is where the day begins. Next is Pasture House.
The Solway Firth is one of Britain's great tidal estuaries, wide, shallow and quick. At low water, a vast expanse of sand and mud opens, and when the tide returns, it advances across the flats with astonishing speed. Pasture House lies on the English shore, on the Cardurnock peninsula, with the Scottish town of Annan visible across the water about six kilometres to the north. The Romans extended Hadrian's Wall defences down this coast, and Swarthy Hill milefortlet 21, on a neighbouring ride, is one of a chain of small forts that guarded against crossings.
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Pasture House comes up about 45 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's write-up.
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about 81 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's. Next is Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp.
Haltwhistle sits in the Tyne Gap, the low cleft where the South Tyne and the old Carlisle road squeeze between the high moors of the north Pennines and the Whin Sill ridge, and that gap is the reason the Romans cared about this ground. A temporary camp is exactly what it sounds like: a ditched and banked enclosure thrown up for a night or a few weeks by an army on the march or on building duty, then abandoned. Most were ploughed flat long ago and now show only as crop marks or faint corners in a pasture, so go in expecting a field, not a ruin. What you get is the story, and the story is good.
Read the complete Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp write-up.
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Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp, about halfway. Next is Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun.
Hadrian's Wall runs for about seventy-three miles across the north of England, from the Solway Firth in the west to the Tyne in the east, built on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian after his visit to Britain in 122 AD.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun sits at 138 km, about halfway. Next is back through Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp.
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Read the complete Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp write-up.
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back through Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp comes up about 173 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's write-up.
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about 200 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's. Next is back through Pasture House.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pasture House write-up.
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back through Pasture House, late in the day. Next is Brownrigg milefortlet 22.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Brownrigg milefortlet 22 write-up.
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The route ends here after 282 km.
Brownrigg milefortlet 22 → Pasture House is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pasture House → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's → Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun → back through Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's → back through Pasture House is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pasture House → Brownrigg milefortlet 22 is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.