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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238 km from Corbridge to Corbridge, about 3 h 13 of riding. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4, Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s, Watchclose Roman temporary camp and back through Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s. The line favours views over speed.
Just east of the point where the A68 crosses the line of Hadrian's Wall, at Portgate, the Romans had a gateway through the frontier for Dere Street, the great road running north from York into Scotland. Today the A68 follows much the same course, and the wall and its vallum run east and west across the fields here, sometimes visible as a bank or a ditch, sometimes buried under the Military Road. A little to the east, the fort of Halton Chesters, known to the Romans as Onnum, lies under the fields, and like the rest of the frontier, this stretch is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4.
Newcastle is not where most people expect the Wall to end, but the Romans did not think of it as the end. The eastern terminus is at Wallsend, a few kilometres downriver, where the fort of Segedunum stood at the point where the Tyne widens, and from there the Wall ran west through what is now the centre of Newcastle. Wall mile 4 lies on that line, and Westgate Road, the main road west out of the city, follows it, so you may be riding along the line of the Wall without any sign. The Romans had a bridge over the Tyne at Newcastle, called Pons Aelius, the Bridge of Aelius, after Hadrian's family name, and the city grew up around the crossing.
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Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4 comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s.
Long before the wall existed, the Romans ran a road across the narrow neck of northern England, the Stanegate, linking the forts of Corbridge on the Tyne and Carlisle on the Eden. It was built around AD 80, in the time of the general Agricola, and it served as the frontier line for a generation before Hadrian ordered the wall to be built a little to the north. Forts and fortlets sat along it, among them Vindolanda and the small post at Haltwhistle Burn, and temporary camps like the one at Milestone House show where troops stopped on the move.
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about 91 km into the recorded legs you reach Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s. Next is Watchclose Roman temporary camp.
East of Carlisle, between the villages of Brampton and Wetheral, the countryside rolls gently towards the Pennines, with green fields, hedges and patches of woodland. Somewhere in these fields lie the faint traces of Watchclose, a Roman temporary camp, one of many marching camps built by soldiers on campaign or during the construction of Hadrian's Wall. These camps were enclosed by a ditch and bank and used for a night or a season, and today they are often visible only from the air or as slight undulations in the grass. Watchclose is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
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Watchclose Roman temporary camp, about halfway. Next is back through Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s.
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back through Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s sits at 187 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4.
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back through Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4 comes up about 209 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra closes the day.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra → Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4 is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4 → Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s is 62 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s → Watchclose Roman temporary camp is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchclose Roman temporary camp → back through Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s → back through Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4 is 62 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4 → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.