CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 139 km round trip from Bardon Mill - roughly 2 h 20 in the saddle. It goes by way of Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La, Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La.
The South Tyne valley below Haydon Bridge is one of the best places in England to understand why the Romans chose this line. To the north rises the long whinstone crag, the Whin Sill, a hard dark rock that stands up in a series of cliffs facing north, and along its crest Hadrian's Wall once ran. South of it lies the valley, with the river, the old road called the Stanegate and a string of forts. A defended settlement and signal station here would have been part of this web, sitting on high ground where a fire or flag could pass news along the line in minutes.
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Defended settlement and Roman signal stati is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
West of Birdoswald the Wall changes character. The central crags fall behind, the River Irthing loops through its gorge below, and the frontier runs across gentler farmland towards Banks and Hare Hill, where one of the tallest surviving fragments of the Wall still stands, patched by later hands. Here too the vallum, the great earthwork south of the Wall, can be traced across the fields, and the remains of turrets at Banks East and Pike Hill sit right beside the road. It is a quieter stretch than the famous sections further east, and all the better for it.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel comes up 25 km in. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La.
Just east of Carlisle, near the village of Scotby, the Wall leaves almost no mark on the land. Here, at the western end of the Roman frontier, it was built first of turf and timber before being rebuilt in stone, and much of that stone has since been carried off to build farmhouses, churches and field walls. What survives is mostly buried, a faint line in the pasture or a slight ridge followed by a hedge. The vallum, the great earthwork that ran behind the wall, sometimes shows as a shallow trough in the fields. Yet this quiet stretch is part of the same World Heritage site as the dramatic crags further east, and walking the Hadrian's Wall Path through it gives a sense of continuity across the whole country.
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49 km in you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La. Next is Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail.
The Solway Firth narrows at Bowness-on-Solway, a small village of whitewashed cottages on a low headland, and this is where Hadrian's Wall ended, or rather began, at its western end.
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Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La sits at 99 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel comes up 123 km in. Next is Defended settlement and Roman signal stati.
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Defended settlement and Roman signal stati closes the day.
Defended settlement and Roman signal stati → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La → Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Defended settlement and Roman signal stati is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.