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 151 km round trip from Haltwhistle - roughly 2 h 20 in the saddle. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi, Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl, Pasture House and back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl. The line favours views over speed.
Cawfields is a spot where Hadrian's Wall shows its best side. The Wall runs along the top of the Whin Sill, a hard volcanic dolerite ridge, and at Cawfields it follows a steep edge above a flooded quarry, with a milecastle, number 42, sitting in a dip and clear stone steps in its entrance. The quarry was cut into the crag in the nineteenth century, and the lake it left is a popular picnic spot. The temporary camp of the label lies nearby, a faint earthwork from the days of marching armies. It is not much to look at, so use it as an excuse to walk the Wall instead.
Read the complete Cawfields Roman temporary camp write-up.
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Cawfields Roman temporary camp is where the day begins. 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.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl.
West of Carlisle, Hadrian's Wall heads out across flat farmland toward the Solway Firth, and the closer you get to the estuary, the quieter it becomes. Along this stretch, the wall itself has largely gone, robbed for stone over the centuries, but the vallum, the wide ditch with its mounds that ran behind it, can still be traced in places, and the line passes the sites of Roman forts and the civilian settlements that grew up around them. At Stanwix, now a suburb on the north bank of the Eden, stood the largest fort on the whole wall, home to a cavalry regiment of a thousand men. Further west, at Burgh by Sands, another fort lies beneath the village and its fortified church, built partly with Roman stone.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl write-up.
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about 48 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl. Next is Pasture House.
The Solway Firth is one of Britain's great tidal estuaries, wide, shallow and quick. At low water, a vast expanse of sand and mud opens, and when the tide returns, it advances across the flats with astonishing speed. Pasture House lies on the English shore, on the Cardurnock peninsula, with the Scottish town of Annan visible across the water about six kilometres to the north. The Romans extended Hadrian's Wall defences down this coast, and Swarthy Hill milefortlet 21, on a neighbouring ride, is one of a chain of small forts that guarded against crossings.
Read the complete Pasture House write-up.
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Pasture House, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl sits at 98 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi comes up about 125 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cawfields Roman temporary camp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cawfields Roman temporary camp write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cawfields Roman temporary camp closes the day.
Cawfields Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi → Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl → Pasture House is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pasture House → back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl → 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 → Cawfields Roman temporary camp is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.