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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A 216 km round trip from Maryport - roughly 3 h 06 in the saddle. It goes by way of Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps, The Roman fort and back through Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps.
Don't expect walls. The two Roman temporary camps at Moss Side are the sort of monument you mostly have to imagine: a pair of rectangles traced in the fields east of Carlisle, known from cropmarks and low earthworks rather than anything that rises above the grass. What you are looking at is a farmed slope of the lower Eden country, hedges and pasture, with Scotby and Wetheral a few kilometres off and the city of Carlisle seven kilometres to the west. The point of stopping is to stand where a Roman army once dug in for the night and to let the landscape do the explaining.
Read the complete Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps write-up.
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Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps comes up about 58 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Roman fort.
Down by the North Tyne, where the river runs fast over stones under a canopy of trees, a Roman cavalry regiment once kept its horses and its very comfortable bath house. Chesters, the fort the Romans called Cilurnum, sat astride Hadrian's Wall near the village of Walwick, guarding the bridge that carried the wall across the river. It is one of the best preserved forts along the wall, with the headquarters building, the commander's house and the bath house still standing to knee or shoulder height, and the remains of the bridge abutment visible on the far bank.
Read the complete The Roman fort write-up.
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about 108 km into the recorded legs you reach The Roman fort. Next is back through Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps, late in the day. Next is Brownrigg milefortlet 22.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Brownrigg milefortlet 22 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Brownrigg milefortlet 22. That is the ride.
Brownrigg milefortlet 22 → Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps → The Roman fort is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Roman fort → back through Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps → Brownrigg milefortlet 22 is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.