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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159 km from Carlisle to Carlisle, about 2 h 48 of riding. It goes by way of Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail, Wolsty North tower 13a, Burrow Walls Roman fort and back through Wolsty North tower 13a. The line favours views over speed.
Just east of Carlisle, near the village of Scotby, the Wall leaves almost no mark on the land. Here, at the western end of the Roman frontier, it was built first of turf and timber before being rebuilt in stone, and much of that stone has since been carried off to build farmhouses, churches and field walls. What survives is mostly buried, a faint line in the pasture or a slight ridge followed by a hedge. The vallum, the great earthwork that ran behind the wall, sometimes shows as a shallow trough in the fields. Yet this quiet stretch is part of the same World Heritage site as the dramatic crags further east, and walking the Hadrian's Wall Path through it gives a sense of continuity across the whole country.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail.
The Solway Firth narrows at Bowness-on-Solway, a small village of whitewashed cottages on a low headland, and this is where Hadrian's Wall ended, or rather began, at its western end.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Wolsty North tower 13a.
Silloth is a small Victorian town on the Solway coast of Cumbria, built in the nineteenth century as a port and a seaside resort, with wide cobbled streets, a green along the seafront and views across the Solway Firth to the hills of Scotland. Just south of the town, at Wolsty, the Romans built a tower as part of the defences that extended Hadrian's Wall down the Cumbrian coast. Tower 13a was one of a chain of small towers and milefortlets, spaced along the shore to watch for raiders crossing the firth from the north.
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about 55 km into the recorded legs you reach Wolsty North tower 13a. Next is Burrow Walls Roman fort.
On the northern edge of Workington, near the mouth of the river Derwent, a fragment of stone wall stands alone in a field, a jagged piece of masonry rising above the grass. It is part of Burrow Walls, a Roman fort that guarded the Cumbrian coast, one of the chain of defences that extended from the western end of Hadrian's Wall down the shore to watch for raiders crossing from Scotland and Ireland. Much of the fort's stone was reused in a medieval building on the site, and what survives today is modest, but it is part of the Hadrian's Wall World Heritage site and has a lonely charm, with views over the sea and the river.
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Burrow Walls Roman fort, about halfway. Next is back through Wolsty North tower 13a.
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Read the complete Wolsty North tower 13a write-up.
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back through Wolsty North tower 13a sits at 106 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail.
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Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail comes up about 133 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La closes the day.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La → Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail → Wolsty North tower 13a is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wolsty North tower 13a → Burrow Walls Roman fort is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Burrow Walls Roman fort → back through Wolsty North tower 13a is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Wolsty North tower 13a → back through Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.