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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138 km from Haydon Bridge to Haydon Bridge, about 2 h 12 of riding. On the way it passes Crooks Roman temporary camp, Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps, Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be and back through Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 27 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Marching soldiers did not sleep in the open. Every night on campaign, a Roman army dug a ditch and threw up a rampart around its tents, and the faint outlines of these temporary camps are scattered across Northumberland, some dating from the conquest of the north, others from the building of the Wall. The camp near the old Grindon school, close to the Stanegate a little north of Haydon Bridge, is one of these. You will need a good map and a low sun to make out its banks.
Read the complete Grindon School Roman temporary camp write-up.
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Grindon School Roman temporary camp is where the day begins. Next is Crooks Roman temporary camp.
The Roman army on the march built a camp every night: a rectangle of ditch and rampart, with tents inside, defended by sentries. These temporary camps, often used only once or for a short campaign, left faint traces in the landscape, and many have been found from the air in the north of England. Crooks, near Haltwhistle and Greenhead, in the area where Northumberland meets Cumbria, is one of several temporary camps along the line of Hadrian's Wall, probably used by the soldiers who built the Wall in the second century.
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Crooks Roman temporary camp comes up about 19 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 41 km into the recorded legs you reach Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps. Next is Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be.
The small Roman fort at Drumburgh sat on a low rise above the Solway marshes, guarding a stretch of Hadrian's Wall where the frontier ran along the edge of the firth towards its western end at Bowness. Nothing much survives of the fort itself, but its stones did not go far. Drumburgh Castle, a fortified farmhouse built in the sixteenth century by the Dacre family, is clearly made from reused Roman masonry, and you can still pick out dressed blocks and even the odd carved fragment set into its walls.
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Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be, about halfway. Next is back through Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps.
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Read the complete Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps write-up.
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back through Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps sits at 102 km, about halfway. Next is back through Crooks Roman temporary camp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Crooks Roman temporary camp write-up.
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back through Crooks Roman temporary camp comes up about 119 km into the recorded legs. Next is Grindon School Roman temporary camp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Grindon School Roman temporary camp write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Grindon School Roman temporary camp closes the day.
Grindon School Roman temporary camp → Crooks Roman temporary camp is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Crooks Roman temporary camp → Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps → Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be → back through Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps → back through Crooks Roman temporary camp is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Crooks Roman temporary camp → Grindon School Roman temporary camp is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.