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 Maryport it runs 172 km to Maryport; allow about 2 h 43 of riding. The stops in between: Pasture House turret 3a, Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f, Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi and back through Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f.
Dubmill Point is where the Solway coast road comes closest to the sea, and on stormy days with a high tide, waves break right over the B5300 and the road can be closed. The point is a low spit of shingle and grass between Allonby and Silloth, and here the Romans built milefortlet 17, part of the coastal defences that extended the frontier of Hadrian's Wall down the Cumbrian shore. A small garrison watched the firth for boats crossing from the north, and signals passed from post to post along the coast. Little remains today, but the site is exposed and evocative, with the sea on one side and the flat fields of the coastal plain on the other.
Read the complete Dubmill Point milefortlet 17 write-up.
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Dubmill Point milefortlet 17 is where the day begins. Next is Pasture House turret 3a.
A turret on Hadrian's Wall was a small stone tower, about the size of a garden shed, built into the wall itself so that two soldiers could shelter and watch the country. Two turrets stood between each pair of milecastles, spaced about a third of a Roman mile apart, which means a signal could be passed along the wall in minutes by lamp, horn or flag. Turret 3a, near Pasture House on the Solway plain, is one of those tiny posts, and it is a good place to imagine the monotony of the job: a cold, damp night, a wide flat horizon, and the wind in the grass.
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Pasture House turret 3a comes up about 37 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f.
West of Carlisle the Eden slows and starts to meander, swinging in wide loops through flat meadows on its way to the Solway, and here at Grinsdale Hadrian's Wall ran along the high ground above the river. It is a gentle, almost secret stretch of countryside, only a few miles from the city but feeling much further. The tiny hamlet of Grinsdale has a church dedicated to St Kentigern, an early saint associated with this region, and a scatter of farms. The Wall has gone, robbed for building stone centuries ago, but the line it followed is clear in the field boundaries and the lie of the land.
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about 61 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f. 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.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f.
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Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f sits at 98 km, about halfway. Next is back through Pasture House turret 3a.
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Read the complete Pasture House turret 3a write-up.
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back through Pasture House turret 3a comes up about 134 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dubmill Point milefortlet 17.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dubmill Point milefortlet 17 write-up.
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Dubmill Point milefortlet 17 closes the day.
Dubmill Point milefortlet 17 → Pasture House turret 3a is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pasture House turret 3a → Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f → Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi → back through Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f → back through Pasture House turret 3a is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pasture House turret 3a → Dubmill Point milefortlet 17 is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.