CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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144 km from Annan to Annan, about 2 h 13 of riding. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f, Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi, Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp and back through Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi. The line favours views over speed.
The Solway Firth is a long, shallow estuary where the tide rushes in faster than a man can run, and at Cardurnock the land finishes in a flat, grassy peninsula that pokes into it. Hadrian's Wall once ran this way along the coast, and the line of the frontier continued along the shore with a series of milecastles and turrets watching the water. Turret 4a is one of those small signal towers, set about every third of a Roman mile, and nothing much remains of it above ground. What there is, instead, is a landscape that explains why the Romans put a tower here: wide, open and exposed, with a clear view over the sea to Scotland.
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Cardurnock Marsh turret 4a is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f.
West of Carlisle the Eden slows and starts to meander, swinging in wide loops through flat meadows on its way to the Solway, and here at Grinsdale Hadrian's Wall ran along the high ground above the river. It is a gentle, almost secret stretch of countryside, only a few miles from the city but feeling much further. The tiny hamlet of Grinsdale has a church dedicated to St Kentigern, an early saint associated with this region, and a scatter of farms. The Wall has gone, robbed for building stone centuries ago, but the line it followed is clear in the field boundaries and the lie of the land.
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Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi.
The Emperor Hadrian visited Britain in AD 122 and ordered a wall built from coast to coast, and the soldiers who did the work left their marks in stone that still stands across the north of England. The section near Brampton, in Cumbria, lies toward the western end of the Wall, where it crossed gentler country toward Carlisle and the Solway Firth. Here the Wall was first built partly in turf and later rebuilt in stone, and the remains of turrets, milecastles and the ditch can still be traced in the fields. Hadrian's Wall is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
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about 48 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi. Next is Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp.
Haltwhistle likes to call itself the centre of Britain, a claim measured, by one method or another, from the farthest tips of the island, and it does sit in the narrow waist of the country, between the North Sea and the Irish Sea. The town, with about four thousand people, lies in the South Tyne valley, just south of Hadrian's Wall, and it is a good base for exploring the central section of the frontier.
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Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi.
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back through Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi sits at 99 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f.
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Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f comes up about 120 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cardurnock Marsh turret 4a.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cardurnock Marsh turret 4a write-up.
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Cardurnock Marsh turret 4a closes the day.
Cardurnock Marsh turret 4a → Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f → Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi → Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp → back through Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi → back through Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f → Cardurnock Marsh turret 4a is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.