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 Haltwhistle it runs 64 km to Haltwhistle; allow about 52 min of riding. On the way it passes The vallum and early Roman road between th, Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun and back through The vallum and early Roman road between th. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Haltwhistle likes to call itself the centre of Britain, a claim based on measurements that no one outside the town quite trusts, but which has produced a very good tourist sign. The town sits in the South Tyne valley, a few kilometres south of Hadrian's Wall, and the wall and vallum between Fell End and the neighbouring crags form one of the most atmospheric sections of the whole frontier. The label here mentions a Roman temporary camp, and the district is full of such earthworks, built by marching legions as they moved through the area.
Read the complete Fell End Roman temporary camp and section write-up.
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Fell End Roman temporary camp and section is where the day begins. Next is The vallum and early Roman road between th.
From the Military Road near Sewingshields, look south and you will see a long, straight scar running across the moorland: two mounds and a ditch, keeping pace with the Wall a short way behind it. That is the vallum, the great earthwork the Romans dug along the south side of the frontier to mark a military zone, and running alongside it here are traces of an early Roman road. This stretch near Housesteads is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site, and it is one of the places where the full layout of the frontier, wall, ditch, vallum and road, is easiest to read in the landscape.
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The vallum and early Roman road between th comes up about 12 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun.
Hadrian's Wall runs for about seventy-three miles across the north of England, from the Solway Firth in the west to the Tyne in the east, built on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian after his visit to Britain in 122 AD.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun write-up.
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about 28 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun. Next is back through The vallum and early Roman road between th.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The vallum and early Roman road between th write-up.
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back through The vallum and early Roman road between th, late in the day. Next is Fell End Roman temporary camp and section.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fell End Roman temporary camp and section write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fell End Roman temporary camp and section. That is the ride.
Fell End Roman temporary camp and section → The vallum and early Roman road between th is 12 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The vallum and early Roman road between th → Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun → back through The vallum and early Roman road between th is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The vallum and early Roman road between th → Fell End Roman temporary camp and section is 12 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.