CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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167 km from Carlisle to Carlisle, about 2 h 14 of riding. It goes by way of Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp, Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun, Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 7 and back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun. 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 Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp.
Haltwhistle sits in the Tyne Gap, the low cleft where the South Tyne and the old Carlisle road squeeze between the high moors of the north Pennines and the Whin Sill ridge, and that gap is the reason the Romans cared about this ground. A temporary camp is exactly what it sounds like: a ditched and banked enclosure thrown up for a night or a few weeks by an army on the march or on building duty, then abandoned. Most were ploughed flat long ago and now show only as crop marks or faint corners in a pasture, so go in expecting a field, not a ruin. What you get is the story, and the story is good.
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Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun.
Hadrian's Wall runs for about seventy-three miles across the north of England, from the Solway Firth in the west to the Tyne in the east, built on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian after his visit to Britain in 122 AD.
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about 56 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 7.
It takes a little imagination to find the Roman frontier in Benwell, a suburb on the western hill of Newcastle, but it is there, tucked between semi-detached houses and bus stops. Wall mile 7 counts the distance from the Wall's eastern end at Wallsend, and in this part of the city the Romans built a fort called Condercum on the high ground above the Tyne, with fine views up and down the river. Most of it now lies under roads and housing, yet two small survivals make the detour worthwhile.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 7, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun.
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back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun sits at 137 km, about halfway. Next is back through Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp.
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back through Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp comes up about 140 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.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's closes the day.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's → Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun → Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 7 is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 7 → back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun → back through Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.