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 Hexham it runs 127 km to Hexham; allow about 1 h 57 of riding. It goes by way of Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road, Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp, Crooks Roman temporary camp and Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and.
Two thousand years ago, Dere Street, the Roman road heading north into Scotland, crossed the Tyne here, and a town grew up around a supply base just behind Hadrian's Wall. Coria, now called Corbridge Roman Town, was a bustling place with granaries, temples, workshops and a main street, and its remains, managed by English Heritage, are among the most important Roman sites in Britain. The museum displays finds including the Corbridge Hoard, a chest of armour and equipment, and the Corbridge Lion, a sculpture of a lion attacking a stag.
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Corbridge is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road.
Between Hexham and Haydon Bridge, the river Tyne runs through a wide green valley, and on the ridge to the north the line of Hadrian's Wall can be traced across fields and woods in a series of ditches, banks and stretches of masonry.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. Next is Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp.
There is not much to see at Bean Burn, and that is rather the point. East of Haltwhistle, in the South Tyne valley a little below the line of Hadrian's Wall, archaeologists have traced the outline of a Roman temporary camp: a rectangle of low banks and ditches, often barely visible except from the air or in raking evening light. Camps like this were thrown up by soldiers on the march or during construction of the Wall, a night's or a season's shelter surrounded by a turf rampart and a ditch, with leather tents pitched inside in neat rows. Northumberland has an unusual concentration of them, and they tell a quieter story than the forts: of thousands of men moving across this landscape, digging in, moving on.
Read the complete Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp write-up.
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about 33 km into the recorded legs you reach Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp. Next is Crooks Roman temporary camp.
The Roman army on the march built a camp every night: a rectangle of ditch and rampart, with tents inside, defended by sentries. These temporary camps, often used only once or for a short campaign, left faint traces in the landscape, and many have been found from the air in the north of England. Crooks, near Haltwhistle and Greenhead, in the area where Northumberland meets Cumbria, is one of several temporary camps along the line of Hadrian's Wall, probably used by the soldiers who built the Wall in the second century.
Read the complete Crooks Roman temporary camp write-up.
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Crooks Roman temporary camp, about halfway. Next is Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and.
Brampton is a small market town at the foot of the North Pennines, and just north of it, the line of Hadrian's Wall crosses the low country between the Irthing and the Eden. On this stretch, the stone wall itself has mostly vanished, robbed for building material over the centuries, but the line can still be traced in places through fields and hedgerows, along with the vallum, the great earthwork ditch the Romans dug just south of the wall. Parts of the wall in this sector were first built of turf, and only later rebuilt in stone, which is one reason why so little survives here.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and sits at 67 km, about halfway. Next is back through Crooks Roman temporary camp.
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Read the complete Crooks Roman temporary camp write-up.
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back through Crooks Roman temporary camp comes up about 79 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp.
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Read the complete Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp write-up.
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about 93 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road, late in the day. Next is Corbridge.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Corbridge write-up.
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The route ends here after 127 km.
Corbridge → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road → Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp → Crooks Roman temporary camp is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Crooks Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and → back through Crooks Roman temporary camp is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Crooks Roman temporary camp → back through Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road → Corbridge is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.