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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From Annan it runs 126 km to Annan; allow about 2 h 04 of riding. The stops in between: The vallum between the field boundary sout, Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp and back through The vallum between the field boundary sout. The line favours views over speed.
Across the water from here lies Eastriggs, a quiet Scottish village with a loud past. During the First World War a huge munitions factory stretched for miles along the Solway coast from Gretna to Annan, and the cordite paste that women workers mixed by hand earned the nickname devil's porridge. Thousands lived in purpose-built townships, and the whole operation was kept secret. A museum in Eastriggs now tells the story. The reason the label brings us to the English shore, though, is the Roman frontier, because Hadrian's Wall did not simply stop at Bowness-on-Solway. Beyond it a chain of milefortlets and towers carried on down the Cumbrian coast, watching the sea rather than the hills.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce is where the day begins. Next is The vallum between the field boundary sout.
Not every stretch of Hadrian's Wall is the dramatic crag-top masonry of the postcards, and this is one of the quieter parts: a section of the vallum, the great ditch-and-mound earthwork the Romans dug behind the wall, running across farmland near Brampton in Cumbria. The stone wall here was largely robbed out long ago for farms and churches, so what survives is often a long, soft hollow in the grass, a line you only notice once someone points it out, and then can't stop seeing.
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The vallum between the field boundary sout comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. Next is Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp.
The Twice Brewed inn gives its name to a stretch of Northumberland where the Roman frontier is at its most dramatic. Here the Great Whin Sill, a hard sheet of dark volcanic rock, breaks in a long line of cliffs facing north, and the Wall runs along the very edge of it, rising and falling like a stone roller-coaster. Haltwhistle, five kilometres off, is the nearest town, and Hexham lies a good deal further east.
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about 63 km into the recorded legs you reach Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp. Next is back through The vallum between the field boundary sout.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through The vallum between the field boundary sout, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce. That is the ride.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce → The vallum between the field boundary sout is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The vallum between the field boundary sout → Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp → back through The vallum between the field boundary sout is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The vallum between the field boundary sout → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.