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 67 km round trip from Haltwhistle - roughly 1 h 07 in the saddle. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel, Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel. The line favours views over speed.
Great Chesters, known to the Romans as Aesica, sits high on the Whin Sill ridge in Northumberland, the dark dolerite crag that Hadrian's Wall uses as its backbone for much of its central length. The fort is small, a modest rectangle of grassy banks and a few stone foundations in a field, and it is easy to drive past without noticing, which is part of its appeal. What you get is the setting: a wide skyline, the wall visible as a rough stone line running east and west, and the sort of silence that only comes from a long way from any town.
Read the complete Great Chesters Roman fort and Hadrian's Wa write-up.
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Great Chesters Roman fort and Hadrian's Wa is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
East of Carlisle, near the market town of Brampton, Hadrian's Wall crosses a landscape of rolling farmland, hedges and woods along the valley of the River Irthing. Here the wall and its vallum, the great earthwork ditch that ran behind it on the southern side, cross fields where the stone has mostly been robbed for farm buildings, but the earthworks remain clearly visible as long ridges and hollows in the grass.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel comes up about 16 km into the recorded legs. Next is Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps.
Don't expect walls. The two Roman temporary camps at Moss Side are the sort of monument you mostly have to imagine: a pair of rectangles traced in the fields east of Carlisle, known from cropmarks and low earthworks rather than anything that rises above the grass. What you are looking at is a farmed slope of the lower Eden country, hedges and pasture, with Scotby and Wetheral a few kilometres off and the city of Carlisle seven kilometres to the west. The point of stopping is to stand where a Roman army once dug in for the night and to let the landscape do the explaining.
Read the complete Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps write-up.
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about 36 km into the recorded legs you reach Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel, late in the day. Next is Great Chesters Roman fort and Hadrian's Wa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Great Chesters Roman fort and Hadrian's Wa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Great Chesters Roman fort and Hadrian's Wa. That is the ride.
Great Chesters Roman fort and Hadrian's Wa → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Great Chesters Roman fort and Hadrian's Wa is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.