CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Hexham it runs 133 km to Hexham; allow about 2 h 10 of riding. It goes by way of Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet, Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ, The vallum and early Roman road between th and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ.
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 associated features bet.
This is the stretch of Hadrian's Wall that everyone pictures: the stone curtain running along the crest of the Whin Sill, a hard dolerite ridge that ends in sheer north-facing crags, with lakes like Crag Lough and Greenlee Lough glinting below. Housesteads fort is close by, clinging to the hillside with its barracks, granaries and famous communal latrines, and the Wall dips and climbs over each crag in a way that seems almost reckless as engineering. The Sycamore Gap tree, which stood in a dip in the ridge for generations, was felled in an act of vandalism in 2023, and the loss is still felt locally.
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Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ.
Gilsland is a village with a split personality. The boundary between Northumberland and Cumbria runs right through it, along the Poltross Burn, so the houses on one side are in one county and those on the other in another. Hadrian's Wall runs through it too, and the stretch of Wall, vallum and associated features around the village is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site. The Wall here crosses the narrow gorge of the burn and the railway line, with a milecastle right next to the old station.
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about 45 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ. Next is The vallum and early Roman road between th.
From the Military Road near Sewingshields, look south and you will see a long, straight scar running across the moorland: two mounds and a ditch, keeping pace with the Wall a short way behind it. That is the vallum, the great earthwork the Romans dug along the south side of the frontier to mark a military zone, and running alongside it here are traces of an early Roman road. This stretch near Housesteads is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site, and it is one of the places where the full layout of the frontier, wall, ditch, vallum and road, is easiest to read in the landscape.
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The vallum and early Roman road between th, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ sits at 97 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet comes up about 107 km into the recorded legs. Next is Corbridge.
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Corbridge closes the day.
Corbridge → Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet → Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ → The vallum and early Roman road between th is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The vallum and early Roman road between th → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ → back through Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet → Corbridge is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.