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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328 km from Bardon Mill to Bardon Mill, about 5 h 31 of riding. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi, Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be, Low Mire and Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 37 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
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 between the road to Garthsi.
The Emperor Hadrian visited Britain in AD 122 and ordered a wall built from coast to coast, and the soldiers who did the work left their marks in stone that still stands across the north of England. The section near Brampton, in Cumbria, lies toward the western end of the Wall, where it crossed gentler country toward Carlisle and the Solway Firth. Here the Wall was first built partly in turf and later rebuilt in stone, and the remains of turrets, milecastles and the ditch can still be traced in the fields. Hadrian's Wall is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
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Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be.
The small Roman fort at Drumburgh sat on a low rise above the Solway marshes, guarding a stretch of Hadrian's Wall where the frontier ran along the edge of the firth towards its western end at Bowness. Nothing much survives of the fort itself, but its stones did not go far. Drumburgh Castle, a fortified farmhouse built in the sixteenth century by the Dacre family, is clearly made from reused Roman masonry, and you can still pick out dressed blocks and even the odd carved fragment set into its walls.
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about 70 km into the recorded legs you reach Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be. 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.
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Low Mire, about halfway. Next is Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house.
Walls Castle is the odd name for a Roman bath house, and the building still stands to a height of about four metres, one of the tallest Roman structures in northern England. It stood outside the fort of Glannoventa at Ravenglass, a harbour station at the meeting of three rivers, the Irt, the Mite and the Esk, and in the dry shelter of the dunes it has survived because its walls were thick and well built. You can walk around it on a short path from the village, and see niches and a doorway in the thick walls. The fort itself lies mostly under farmland and the railway.
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Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house sits at 168 km, about halfway. Next is back through Low Mire.
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back through Low Mire comes up about 221 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be.
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about 258 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi, late in the day. Next is Defended settlement and Roman signal stati.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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The route ends here after 328 km.
Defended settlement and Roman signal stati → Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi → Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be → Low Mire is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Low Mire → Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house → back through Low Mire is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Low Mire → back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be → back through Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi → Defended settlement and Roman signal stati is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.