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 264 km round trip from Hexham - roughly 3 h 57 in the saddle. It goes by way of Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s, Watchclose Roman temporary camp, The Roman fort and associated civil settle and Low Mire. The line favours views over speed.
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.
Read the complete Corbridge write-up.
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Corbridge is where the day begins. Next is Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s.
Long before the wall existed, the Romans ran a road across the narrow neck of northern England, the Stanegate, linking the forts of Corbridge on the Tyne and Carlisle on the Eden. It was built around AD 80, in the time of the general Agricola, and it served as the frontier line for a generation before Hadrian ordered the wall to be built a little to the north. Forts and fortlets sat along it, among them Vindolanda and the small post at Haltwhistle Burn, and temporary camps like the one at Milestone House show where troops stopped on the move.
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Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchclose Roman temporary camp.
East of Carlisle, between the villages of Brampton and Wetheral, the countryside rolls gently towards the Pennines, with green fields, hedges and patches of woodland. Somewhere in these fields lie the faint traces of Watchclose, a Roman temporary camp, one of many marching camps built by soldiers on campaign or during the construction of Hadrian's Wall. These camps were enclosed by a ditch and bank and used for a night or a season, and today they are often visible only from the air or as slight undulations in the grass. Watchclose is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
Read the complete Watchclose Roman temporary camp write-up.
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about 59 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchclose Roman temporary camp. Next is The Roman fort and associated civil settle.
Bowness-on-Solway is where Hadrian's Wall ends, or begins, depending on which way you are walking. This quiet village on the southern shore of the Solway Firth sits on top of the Roman fort of Maia, the second largest on the Wall, and its civilian settlement, which together make up the site on the label, part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site. Almost nothing of the fort survives above ground, as much of the stone went into the houses, church and farm buildings of the village, but you can find Roman stones reused in walls if you look closely.
Read the complete The Roman fort and associated civil settle write-up.
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The Roman fort and associated civil settle, about halfway. Next is Low Mire.
Low Mire lies in the quiet farmland behind the Cumbrian coast, near Dearham and Maryport, where the land slopes gently down to the Solway Firth and the hills of southern Scotland rise across the water. It is an area of small fields, hedges and scattered farms, with the Lake District fells visible to the south-east on clear days.
Read the complete Low Mire write-up.
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Low Mire sits at 138 km, about halfway. Next is back through The Roman fort and associated civil settle.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Roman fort and associated civil settle write-up.
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back through The Roman fort and associated civil settle comes up about 170 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Watchclose Roman temporary camp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchclose Roman temporary camp write-up.
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about 205 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Watchclose Roman temporary camp. Next is back through Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s write-up.
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back through Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s, late in the day. Next is Corbridge.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Corbridge write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 264 km.
Corbridge → Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s → Watchclose Roman temporary camp is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchclose Roman temporary camp → The Roman fort and associated civil settle is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Roman fort and associated civil settle → Low Mire is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Low Mire → back through The Roman fort and associated civil settle is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Roman fort and associated civil settle → back through Watchclose Roman temporary camp is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchclose Roman temporary camp → back through Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s → Corbridge is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.