Why this ride
A 61 km round trip from Brampton - roughly 59 min in the saddle. The stops in between: Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp, Coesike West Roman temporary camps 1 and 2 and back through Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel and Coesike West Roman temporary camps 1 and 2
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 61 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 59 min
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel
East of Carlisle, near the market town of Brampton, Hadrian's Wall crosses a landscape of rolling farmland, hedges and woods along the valley of the River Irthing. Here the wall and its vallum, the great earthwork ditch that ran behind it on the southern side, cross fields where the stone has mostly been robbed for farm buildings, but the earthworks remain clearly visible as long ridges and hollows in the grass.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is where the day begins. Next is Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp.
2. Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp
Sunny Rigg is a name that sounds like a farm, and that is more or less what it is, a stretch of rough pasture on the high ground just north of Haltwhistle, in Northumberland, where archaeologists have found the faint outline of a Roman temporary camp. These camps were built by marching armies at the end of each day's journey, with a ditch and a rampart thrown up around the tents to protect them overnight, and they were abandoned the next morning. Most survive only as shallow earthworks or crop marks seen from the air, which is why the places are so evocative: they record a single night of an army's life on the march, two thousand years ago.
Read the complete Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp comes up about 14 km into the recorded legs. Next is Coesike West Roman temporary camps 1 and 2.
3. Coesike West Roman temporary camps 1 and 2
Roman marching camps look like nothing, and yet they tell you almost everything about how the legions worked. At the end of each day's march, the soldiers dug a ditch, threw up a rampart of turf and put up their leather tents inside, in a regular plan. The camps at Coesike West, two of them side by side, were built on the moorland north of Hadrian's Wall, and they probably date from the period of campaigns in the north, before or around the time the frontier was fixed. They are only low banks and ditches now, but from the air or in low light the outline is clear.
Read the complete Coesike West Roman temporary camps 1 and 2 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 27 km into the recorded legs you reach Coesike West Roman temporary camps 1 and 2. Next is back through Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp.
4. back through Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
5. Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel to Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp to Coesike West Roman temporary camps 1 and 2
Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp → Coesike West Roman temporary camps 1 and 2 is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Coesike West Roman temporary camps 1 and 2 to back through Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp
Coesike West Roman temporary camps 1 and 2 → back through Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp to Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel
back through Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.