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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341 km from Carlisle to Carlisle, about 4 h 58 of riding. On the way it passes Maryport Golf Course tower 22a, Corbridge and back through Maryport Golf Course tower 22a. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
East of Carlisle, the Eden river bends through a broad red-sandstone valley, and the line of Hadrian's Wall once ran across it. Little of the wall is visible here, because stone was reused for houses and field walls over the centuries, but the course is known, and the Vallum, the great ditch and mounds on the south side, leaves faint marks in the fields. The sector between Baron's Close and the nearby farms runs through gentle pasture, with hedgerows, oak trees and cattle, and the memory of soldiers is carried by the land itself.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's is where the day begins. Next is Maryport Golf Course tower 22a.
Hadrian's Wall gets the fame, but the Romans kept watching long after it ended at Bowness. The coast of Cumberland, from the Solway to St Bees, was fitted with a line of forts, fortlets and watchtowers, each numbered in sequence, and Tower 22a is one of them. It stands on the cliff above Maryport, in a place that the golf course has swallowed, and what you will find is a modest earthwork or a marker rather than a standing tower. The Romans built Alauna, a fort at Maryport, on the high ground above the harbour, and the finds from it, a collection of seventeen carved altars buried in a pit, are displayed in the Senhouse Roman Museum in a former naval battery overlooking the sea.
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Maryport Golf Course tower 22a comes up about 55 km into the recorded legs. Next is Corbridge.
Two thousand years ago, Dere Street, the Roman road heading north into Scotland, crossed the Tyne here, and a town grew up around a supply base just behind Hadrian's Wall. Coria, now called Corbridge Roman Town, was a bustling place with granaries, temples, workshops and a main street, and its remains, managed by English Heritage, are among the most important Roman sites in Britain. The museum displays finds including the Corbridge Hoard, a chest of armour and equipment, and the Corbridge Lion, a sculpture of a lion attacking a stag.
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about 171 km into the recorded legs you reach Corbridge. Next is back through Maryport Golf Course tower 22a.
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back through Maryport Golf Course tower 22a, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's. That is the ride.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's → Maryport Golf Course tower 22a is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Maryport Golf Course tower 22a → Corbridge is 116 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Corbridge → back through Maryport Golf Course tower 22a is 115 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Maryport Golf Course tower 22a → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.