CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Haydon Bridge it runs 53 km to Haydon Bridge; allow about 51 min of riding. It goes by way of Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp, Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar and back through Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp. The line favours views over speed.
Here the Wall is at its most dramatic. In the central sector of Hadrian's Wall, north of Haydon Bridge and Hexham in Northumberland, the Roman frontier runs along the top of the Whin Sill, a long ridge of hard volcanic rock that breaks the moorland into a series of north-facing cliffs. The Romans built their wall right along the crest, using the natural defences, and the result is a line of stone that rises and falls with the crags like the spine of a great animal. Behind it, to the south, runs the vallum, a broad earthwork ditch with mounds on either side that marked the military zone, still clearly visible across the fields.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is where the day begins. Next is Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp.
Haltwhistle likes to call itself the centre of Britain, a claim measured, by one method or another, from the farthest tips of the island, and it does sit in the narrow waist of the country, between the North Sea and the Irish Sea. The town, with about four thousand people, lies in the South Tyne valley, just south of Hadrian's Wall, and it is a good base for exploring the central section of the frontier.
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Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp comes up 17 km in. Next is Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar.
Building Hadrian's Wall took an enormous amount of stone, and the Romans quarried it wherever they could find good sandstone near the line. In the woods and crags around Banks and Lanercost, east of Brampton, several of these quarries survive, and on the rock faces the soldiers who worked them left their marks: names, unit symbols and short inscriptions carved into the stone nearly two thousand years ago. Coombe Crag, near the Wall here, is one of the best known, with names scratched by men who were probably bored, tired and far from home. Finding them takes a bit of searching and some imagination, as the letters are worn and lichen-covered, but there is something deeply human about them.
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33 km in you reach Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar. Next is back through Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp.
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back through Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp, late in the day. Next is 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel. That is the ride.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp is 11 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp → Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar → back through Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 11 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.