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 321 km round trip from Annan - roughly 4 h 39 in the saddle. The stops in between: Markham Cottage Roman temporary camps 1 an, The English Lake District and back through Markham Cottage Roman temporary camps 1 an. Lakes are the scenery here.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 61 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 Markham Cottage Roman temporary camps 1 an.
Haltwhistle likes to call itself the centre of Britain, a claim measured with some creativity, and the town of nearly four thousand people is a good base for the middle section of Hadrian's Wall, where the frontier runs along the crags of the Whin Sill. The temporary camps in this label are Roman marching camps, the overnight enclosures that an army threw up with a ditch and a rampart each time it halted, and several are scattered across the fields south of the Wall. Almost all of them show only as faint rectangles in grass when the low sun catches them, and the ones near Markham Cottage fall in that category, so do not expect masonry or signs. What you get is a rare sense of how many soldiers once moved through this valley.
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Markham Cottage Roman temporary camps 1 an comes up about 54 km into the recorded legs. Next is The English Lake District.
Wordsworth wandered lonely as a cloud round here, and anybody who has ridden the Lake District on a wet bank holiday will understand the appeal of being lonely. The English Lake District, listed by UNESCO in 2017 as a cultural landscape, is a compact knot of mountains, lakes and valleys in Cumbria, shaped by glaciers and then by centuries of sheep farming, slate quarrying and, from the late eighteenth century, by poets, painters and tourists who came looking for the sublime.
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about 161 km into the recorded legs you reach The English Lake District. Next is back through Markham Cottage Roman temporary camps 1 an.
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back through Markham Cottage Roman temporary camps 1 an, late in the day. Next is Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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Back at Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be. That is the ride.
Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be → Markham Cottage Roman temporary camps 1 an is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Markham Cottage Roman temporary camps 1 an → The English Lake District is 107 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The English Lake District → back through Markham Cottage Roman temporary camps 1 an is 105 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Markham Cottage Roman temporary camps 1 an → Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.