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 152 km round trip from Carlisle - roughly 2 h 24 in the saddle. On the way it passes Bewcastle Roman fort, Hadrian's Wall, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between St Oswal and back through Hadrian's Wall. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 24 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
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 Bewcastle Roman fort.
Bewcastle is one of the loneliest places in Cumbria, and it has been for a very long time. Roman soldiers built an outpost fort here, about ten kilometres north of Hadrian's Wall, on a plateau whose shape the walls followed, giving it an unusual six-sided plan. It was a forward base for scouts watching the tribes beyond the frontier, and it was linked to the Wall at Birdoswald by a road. Later, a medieval castle was built into one corner of the old Roman defences, and its broken walls still stand above the beck.
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Bewcastle Roman fort comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall.
North of Haltwhistle the land rises in a series of dark ridges, and along their crest runs the most dramatic surviving stretch of Hadrian's Wall. Built from AD 122 on the orders of the emperor Hadrian, the wall ran some seventy three miles from the Tyne to the Solway, with forts, milecastles and turrets along its length, and here, between Walltown Crags and Birdoswald, it climbs and drops along the edge of the Whin Sill, a band of hard volcanic rock that forms natural cliffs facing north. The wall is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site.
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about 54 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between St Oswal.
North of Hexham, where the land rises above the Tyne valley, the B6318, the military road built in the eighteenth century partly on top of Hadrian's Wall, runs straight across open country, and here, near the hamlet of St Oswald's, the remains of the wall and the vallum, the great earthwork that ran along its southern side, are clearly visible in the fields. The vallum was a broad ditch flanked by mounds, marking a military zone, and its scale still impresses. This stretch is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between St Oswal, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall sits at 100 km, about halfway. Next is back through Bewcastle Roman fort.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bewcastle Roman fort write-up.
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back through Bewcastle Roman fort comes up about 128 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's closes the day.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's → Bewcastle Roman fort is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bewcastle Roman fort → Hadrian's Wall is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between St Oswal is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between St Oswal → back through Hadrian's Wall is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall → back through Bewcastle Roman fort is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Bewcastle Roman fort → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.