CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 138 km round trip from Hexham - roughly 2 h 04 in the saddle. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road, Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi, Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl and back through Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The North Tyne comes down from the Kielder hills and the empty moorland of the border, and at Chollerford it passes beneath an old stone bridge on its way to meet the South Tyne near Hexham. Just west of the bridge, the Wall strides away uphill from Chesters fort, and this stretch, with the Wall and the vallum running together across farmland and woods, is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road.
Around Haltwhistle the wall climbs on to the Whin Sill, a hard ridge of dark volcanic rock that runs across northern England like a spine, and the effect is among the most dramatic on the whole frontier. The wall rides the crest of crags, rising and falling over the rock, with a steep drop to the north and long views over moorland, and the Roman engineers made full use of the natural defence. The vallum, a broad flat-bottomed ditch with mounds on either side, runs in the valley to the south, and it marks the boundary of the military zone behind the wall.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi.
The Emperor Hadrian visited Britain in AD 122 and ordered a wall built from coast to coast, and the soldiers who did the work left their marks in stone that still stands across the north of England. The section near Brampton, in Cumbria, lies toward the western end of the Wall, where it crossed gentler country toward Carlisle and the Solway Firth. Here the Wall was first built partly in turf and later rebuilt in stone, and the remains of turrets, milecastles and the ditch can still be traced in the fields. Hadrian's Wall is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
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about 46 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl.
West of Carlisle, Hadrian's Wall heads out across flat farmland toward the Solway Firth, and the closer you get to the estuary, the quieter it becomes. Along this stretch, the wall itself has largely gone, robbed for stone over the centuries, but the vallum, the wide ditch with its mounds that ran behind it, can still be traced in places, and the line passes the sites of Roman forts and the civilian settlements that grew up around them. At Stanwix, now a suburb on the north bank of the Eden, stood the largest fort on the whole wall, home to a cavalry regiment of a thousand men. Further west, at Burgh by Sands, another fort lies beneath the village and its fortified church, built partly with Roman stone.
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Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi.
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Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi sits at 99 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road comes up about 117 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters closes the day.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road → Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi → Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl → back through Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.