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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249 km from Brampton to Brampton, about 4 h 08 of riding. On the way it passes Bank Mill tower 15a, Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house and back through Bank Mill tower 15a. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 61 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Camboglanna is the Roman name of the fort at Castlesteads, and the sound of it has a ring that the present quiet farmland does not. The fort sat on a ridge above the River Irthing, not far from Brampton, and it was one of the garrison posts on the western part of the wall. Little survives above ground, because the site was built over by a country house and gardens in the eighteenth century, but the line of the wall and the vallum, the great ditch behind it, can be traced across the fields nearby.
Read the complete Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum bet write-up.
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Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum bet is where the day begins. Next is Bank Mill tower 15a.
Hadrian's Wall did not stop at the sea. West of Bowness, the Romans continued their frontier along the Cumbrian coast with a chain of milefortlets and watchtowers, guarding against raiders who might sail across the Solway Firth. Bank Mill tower 15a is one of those coastal towers, set on the low ground near Silloth, and its remains are slight, though the logic is clear: from here, a sentry could see the whole estuary, and a signal could pass quickly along the line. The coast defences belong to the same UNESCO frontier listing as the wall itself.
Read the complete Bank Mill tower 15a write-up.
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Bank Mill tower 15a comes up about 60 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 124 km into the recorded legs you reach Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house. Next is back through Bank Mill tower 15a.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bank Mill tower 15a write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Bank Mill tower 15a, late in the day. Next is Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum bet.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum bet write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum bet. That is the ride.
Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum bet → Bank Mill tower 15a is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bank Mill tower 15a → Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house is 64 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house → back through Bank Mill tower 15a is 65 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Bank Mill tower 15a → Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum bet is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.