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 Annan it runs 128 km to Annan; allow about 2 h 11 of riding. It goes by way of Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med, Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp and back through Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 34 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
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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Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be is where the day begins. Next is Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med.
Brampton is the sort of small Cumbrian market town that makes a good place to stop for lunch without any plan to do so. A few miles east of Carlisle, in the green valley of the River Irthing, it has an octagonal Moot Hall in the market place, built in the early nineteenth century, and a main street of sandstone houses and tea rooms. Market day brings stalls to the square, and the town has the unhurried feel of a place that knows where it is. The old church that gives this stop its name stands outside the town, on a rise by the river, with the grass mounds of a Roman fort beside it.
Read the complete Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med write-up.
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Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med comes up about 35 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 62 km into the recorded legs you reach Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp. Next is back through Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med, late in the day. Next is Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be. That is the ride.
Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be → Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med → Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp → back through Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med → Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.