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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355 km from Annan to Annan, about 5 h 13 of riding. On the way it passes Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house and back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
Read the complete Cardurnock milefortlet write-up.
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Cardurnock milefortlet is where the day begins. Next is Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
The Wall comes into its own here, at the Irthing gorge, where the line runs along a high shelf above the river and you can see why the Romans picked it. Birdoswald fort, known to them as Banna, sits right on that edge, with a long view down the valley and the ground falling away to the water.
Read the complete Frontiers of the Roman Empire write-up.
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Frontiers of the Roman Empire comes up about 56 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house.
Walls Castle is the odd name for a Roman bath house, and the building still stands to a height of about four metres, one of the tallest Roman structures in northern England. It stood outside the fort of Glannoventa at Ravenglass, a harbour station at the meeting of three rivers, the Irt, the Mite and the Esk, and in the dry shelter of the dunes it has survived because its walls were thick and well built. You can walk around it on a short path from the village, and see niches and a doorway in the thick walls. The fort itself lies mostly under farmland and the railway.
Read the complete Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house write-up.
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about 177 km into the recorded legs you reach Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house. Next is back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Frontiers of the Roman Empire write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire, late in the day. Next is Cardurnock milefortlet.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cardurnock milefortlet write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cardurnock milefortlet. That is the ride.
Cardurnock milefortlet → Frontiers of the Roman Empire is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Frontiers of the Roman Empire → Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house is 121 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house → back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire is 122 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire → Cardurnock milefortlet is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.