CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Haltwhistle it runs 159 km to Haltwhistle; allow about 2 h 41 of riding. On the way it passes Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med, Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of, Skinburness and back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of. 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 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 19 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of.
The Solway Firth, west of Carlisle, is a wide, shallow estuary where the Cumbrian plain opens out to the sea, and the marshes and farmland on its southern shore are the western end of Hadrian's Wall, with the Scottish hills visible on the far side. The land is low, wet and windy, with cattle in the fields and tall skies full of birds, and a visitor will find little that looks like Roman engineering until they look closely at the ground.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of write-up.
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about 47 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of. Next is Skinburness.
Skinburness is a scatter of houses at the tip of a shingle spit on the Solway coast of Cumbria, just north of Silloth, looking across the wide, shimmering estuary to the hills of Scotland. When the tide goes out, the Solway empties into vast expanses of sand and mud, with channels winding through them, and the light changes constantly as clouds race overhead. On clear evenings, the sunsets over the Scottish hills, with the dark bulk of Criffel opposite, are spectacular.
Read the complete Skinburness write-up.
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Skinburness, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of sits at 102 km, about halfway. 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 comes up about 139 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Fell End Roman temporary camp and section closes the day.
Fell End Roman temporary camp and section → Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med → Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of → Skinburness is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Skinburness → back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of → back through Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the med → Fell End Roman temporary camp and section is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.