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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245 km from Haltwhistle to Haltwhistle, about 3 h 36 of riding. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so, Parton Roman fort and back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so. The line favours views over speed.
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 Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so.
Between Bowness-on-Solway and Drumburgh, the road follows the shore of the Solway Firth along a strip of land so flat and low that the highest tides cover it, and the line of Hadrian's Wall and its vallum runs just inland, through fields and past farms. This stretch, near Port Carlisle and Glasson, is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site. Little is visible of the Wall itself, which was robbed for stone long ago, but the vallum and other earthworks can be traced in places by those with a keen eye.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so comes up about 59 km into the recorded legs. Next is Parton Roman fort.
Hadrian's Wall stopped at Bowness-on-Solway, but the Roman frontier did not. Down the Cumbrian coast, the army built a chain of forts, milefortlets and towers to watch the sea and stop raiders slipping round the end of the Wall, and Parton, just north of Whitehaven, was one of them. The fort is known from excavations and records rather than standing remains, and the coastal defences as a whole are included in the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Standing on the cliffs above the sea, you can see why the Romans worried: across the water lie the Isle of Man and, on clear days, the hills of Scotland.
Read the complete Parton Roman fort write-up.
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about 122 km into the recorded legs you reach Parton Roman fort. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so, 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 → Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so → Parton Roman fort is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parton Roman fort → back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so → Fell End Roman temporary camp and section is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.