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 149 km round trip from Annan - roughly 2 h 34 in the saddle. The stops in between: Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps, Boothby Roman fort, Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti and back through Boothby Roman fort. The coast is the point of it.
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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Campfield is where the day begins. Next is Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps.
Carlisle is where the Roman frontier met the border of two kingdoms, and the city holds all of that history in a compact space. The Romans built a fort here called Luguvalium, beside the River Eden, and it was an important base for the western end of the Wall. In the Middle Ages the red sandstone castle was the stronghold of the English border, and Mary, Queen of Scots, was held there for two months in 1568 after fleeing across the Solway. The cathedral, one of the smallest in England, has a huge east window and a painted ceiling of gold stars on blue. Tullie House Museum tells the story from the Romans to the border reivers, the raiding families of the borderland.
Read the complete Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps write-up.
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Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Boothby Roman fort.
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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about 49 km into the recorded legs you reach Boothby Roman fort. Next is Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti.
Haltwhistle likes to call itself the centre of Britain, a claim based on being halfway between the north and south coasts of the island, and while other towns dispute it, nobody disputes that it is the best base for exploring the central section of Hadrian's Wall. Just north of the town, on the rough ground below the crags, Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp is one of several marching camps where Roman troops on the move dug defences for a night or longer, and the label includes a section of the vallum nearby. It is all part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
Read the complete Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti write-up.
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Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti, about halfway. Next is back through 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 through Boothby Roman fort sits at 101 km, about halfway. Next is back through Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps comes up about 123 km into the recorded legs. Next is Campfield.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Campfield write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Campfield closes the day.
Campfield → Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps → Boothby Roman fort is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Boothby Roman fort → Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti → back through Boothby Roman fort is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Boothby Roman fort → back through Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps → Campfield is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.