Why this ride
A 56 km round trip from Greenhead - roughly 51 min in the saddle. The stops in between: Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp, Red House Roman camp and back through Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ and Red House Roman camp
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 56 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 51 min
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ
Gilsland is a village with a split personality. The boundary between Northumberland and Cumbria runs right through it, along the Poltross Burn, so the houses on one side are in one county and those on the other in another. Hadrian's Wall runs through it too, and the stretch of Wall, vallum and associated features around the village is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site. The Wall here crosses the narrow gorge of the burn and the railway line, with a milecastle right next to the old station.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ is where the day begins. Next is Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp.
2. Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp
The Twice Brewed inn gives its name to a stretch of Northumberland where the Roman frontier is at its most dramatic. Here the Great Whin Sill, a hard sheet of dark volcanic rock, breaks in a long line of cliffs facing north, and the Wall runs along the very edge of it, rising and falling like a stone roller-coaster. Haltwhistle, five kilometres off, is the nearest town, and Hexham lies a good deal further east.
Read the complete Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp comes up about 14 km into the recorded legs. Next is Red House Roman camp.
3. Red House Roman camp
A few kilometres west of Hexham the South and North Tyne have long since joined, and the valley widens into a level green floor of fields, hedges and small woods, with the Wall's ridge just visible to the north. The Red House Roman camp lies in this farmland, about five kilometres from Haydon Bridge, Acomb and Hexham, on the Roman road known as the Stanegate, which ran across the neck of Britain from Carlisle to Corbridge.
Read the complete Red House Roman camp write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 28 km into the recorded legs you reach Red House Roman camp. Next is back through Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp.
4. back through Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ.
5. Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ to Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp
Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ → Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp to Red House Roman camp
Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp → Red House Roman camp is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Red House Roman camp to back through Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp
Red House Roman camp → back through Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp to Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ
back through Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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