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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119 km from Prudhoe to Prudhoe, about 1 h 43 of riding. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road, Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp, Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and and back through Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Out at the eastern end of the frontier, the Wall leaves the moors behind and runs through gentle farmland toward Newcastle, and most of what survives here is not stone but earth: the vallum, a broad ditch flanked by banks that the Romans dug just south of the Wall along almost its entire length. Between the Tyne and the Military Road, near Heddon-on-the-Wall and Rudchester, the vallum can be traced in the fields as a long hollow, and the Wall itself lies largely under the road or as low courses in the grass. Its purpose is still debated, but most scholars see it as a boundary marking the military zone, controlling who could approach the Wall.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630 is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road.
Between Hexham and Haydon Bridge, the river Tyne runs through a wide green valley, and on the ridge to the north the line of Hadrian's Wall can be traced across fields and woods in a series of ditches, banks and stretches of masonry.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp.
Haltwhistle likes to call itself the centre of Britain, and whether or not you believe the measurements, it sits at the very heart of Hadrian's Wall country. Just outside the town, on a gentle slope called Sunny Rigg, the outlines of two Roman temporary camps have been traced, rectangular enclosures with rounded corners where units on the march, or building the wall, pitched their leather tents behind a bank and a ditch for a night or a season. They are part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site, though on the ground you will see only faint lines in the grass, best appreciated from the air or in low evening light.
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about 37 km into the recorded legs you reach Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp. Next is Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and.
Brampton is a small market town at the foot of the North Pennines, and just north of it, the line of Hadrian's Wall crosses the low country between the Irthing and the Eden. On this stretch, the stone wall itself has mostly vanished, robbed for building material over the centuries, but the line can still be traced in places through fields and hedgerows, along with the vallum, the great earthwork ditch the Romans dug just south of the wall. Parts of the wall in this sector were first built of turf, and only later rebuilt in stone, which is one reason why so little survives here.
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Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and, about halfway. Next is back through Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp.
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back through Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp sits at 98 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 100 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630 closes the day.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630 → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road → Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and → back through Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road is 19 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 the B630 is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.