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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56 km from Haydon Bridge to Haydon Bridge, about 56 min of riding. The stops in between: Lees Hall Roman camp, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel and back through Lees Hall Roman camp. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Romans were a marching people, and every night on campaign they dug in. Coesike East is one of those night camps, a temporary enclosure of banks and ditches thrown up by a column on the move, probably around the time the frontier was being organised, long before anyone thought of building a wall. Nothing much stands above ground now. What survives is a faint rectangle in rough pasture, visible mostly to people who already know what they are looking for, or to aerial photographs in low winter sun.
Read the complete Coesike East Roman temporary camp write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Coesike East Roman temporary camp is where the day begins. Next is Lees Hall Roman camp.
Haltwhistle likes to call itself the centre of Britain, a claim measured with some creativity, and it is certainly the middle of Hadrian's Wall country, a small market town on the South Tyne where the river valley narrows between the Pennines and the Wall crags. Lees Hall Roman camp is one of the temporary camps the army threw up while building the Wall or on campaign, a rectangle of bank and ditch now softened by grass. These marching camps were quick, practical affairs, ploughed flat in many places, and what survives is mostly a faint earthwork seen best in low evening light.
Read the complete Lees Hall Roman camp write-up.
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Lees Hall Roman camp comes up about 13 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
East of Carlisle, near the market town of Brampton, Hadrian's Wall crosses a landscape of rolling farmland, hedges and woods along the valley of the River Irthing. Here the wall and its vallum, the great earthwork ditch that ran behind it on the southern side, cross fields where the stone has mostly been robbed for farm buildings, but the earthworks remain clearly visible as long ridges and hollows in the grass.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 28 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel. Next is back through Lees Hall Roman camp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lees Hall Roman camp write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Lees Hall Roman camp, late in the day. Next is Coesike East Roman temporary camp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Coesike East Roman temporary camp write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Coesike East Roman temporary camp. That is the ride.
Coesike East Roman temporary camp → Lees Hall Roman camp is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lees Hall Roman camp → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → back through Lees Hall Roman camp is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lees Hall Roman camp → Coesike East Roman temporary camp is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.