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 Annan it runs 146 km to Annan; allow about 2 h 19 of riding. It goes by way of Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary, The vallum between the road to Garthside a, Chesters Pike Roman temporary camp and back through The vallum between the road to Garthside a.
The Cardurnock peninsula pokes out into the upper Solway Firth like a thumb, a flat, wind-scoured finger of farmland and salt marsh west of Bowness-on-Solway, with the tide sweeping in and out over the sands on three sides. Beyond the end of Hadrian's Wall, the Romans continued their defences down the coast with a chain of small forts and towers, and Cardurnock milefortlet was one of them, a small walled post with a handful of men keeping an eye on the fords and the open water. It is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site, though nothing much is visible now beyond the lie of the land.
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Cardurnock milefortlet is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary.
Just outside Carlisle, among hedges and grazing fields, a short protected length of ground marks where Hadrian's Wall once ran between two farm boundaries. That is all the official name means, and the honest truth is that there is very little to see: a gentle bank, perhaps a slight ditch, the alignment of a hedge that follows the Roman line because nobody ever bothered to move it. What makes it worth a pause is the bigger picture. The wall here was heading for the crossing of the River Eden, where it met the fort of Stanwix on the north bank, the biggest fort on the entire frontier, home to an elite cavalry regiment a thousand strong.
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Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary comes up about 22 km into the recorded legs. Next is The vallum between the road to Garthside a.
Brampton is a small red sandstone market town at the edge of the Pennines, and just north of it, where the land rises toward the Irthing valley, a stretch of the vallum runs across the fields near Garthside. The vallum, the great ditch and banks that ran south of Hadrian's Wall, is often clearer than the wall itself in this area, because the stone of the wall was carried off long ago to build farmhouses, churches and even a priory. It is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site, and it is best seen in low light, when the earthworks cast long shadows.
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about 47 km into the recorded legs you reach The vallum between the road to Garthside a. Next is Chesters Pike Roman temporary camp.
The country around Haltwhistle is where Hadrian's Wall is at its most dramatic. The Romans built it along the Whin Sill, a ridge of hard volcanic rock that rises in a long wall of crags above the farmland, and the ruins of milecastles, turrets and forts run along the top, making a line that climbs and dips like a stitched seam. Haltwhistle claims to be the centre of Britain, which no one can prove, and the town has a quiet, grey-stone high street. A Roman temporary camp, like the one at Chesters Pike, was a marching camp, where an army dug a ditch and raised a bank around a night's lodging, and left almost nothing behind. Often the only trace is a faint rectangle in the grass.
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Chesters Pike Roman temporary camp, about halfway. Next is back through The vallum between the road to Garthside a.
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Read the complete The vallum between the road to Garthside a write-up.
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back through The vallum between the road to Garthside a sits at 98 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary.
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back through Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary comes up about 124 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cardurnock milefortlet.
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Read the complete Cardurnock milefortlet write-up.
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Cardurnock milefortlet closes the day.
Cardurnock milefortlet → Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary → The vallum between the road to Garthside a is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The vallum between the road to Garthside a → Chesters Pike Roman temporary camp is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chesters Pike Roman temporary camp → back through The vallum between the road to Garthside a is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The vallum between the road to Garthside a → back through Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary → Cardurnock milefortlet is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.