Why this ride
From Carlisle it runs 197 km to Carlisle; allow about 2 h 48 of riding. The stops in between: Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp, Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2 and back through Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel and Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 197 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 48
- 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
Carlisle was a Roman town before it was an English one. Luguvalium grew beside the Eden, and just across the river at Stanwix stood the largest fort on Hadrian's Wall, home to a cavalry regiment of a thousand men. The wall itself ran along the north side of today's city, and though houses and roads cover it, its line can be traced by plaques and fragments, and the wall and its Vallum are part of the UNESCO listing. A stretch of the ditch and the foundations of milecastles are visible beyond the suburbs.
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 Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp.
2. Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp
Look for a faint rectangle in the rough grass north of the Military Road, a few kilometres west of Chollerford, and you will have found Brown Dikes, one of a cluster of Roman temporary camps on the high ground above the North Tyne. Nothing stands here, no walls or gates, only low earthworks that the grazing sheep have softened over nearly two thousand years. But these camps are among the most evocative traces of the Roman army in Britain, because they mark where soldiers actually slept and worked while the frontier was being built and garrisoned.
Read the complete Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp comes up about 48 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2.
3. Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2
Hadrian's Wall begins, or ends, in a suburb of Newcastle, and it is a surprise to find it there. Wallsend, on the north bank of the Tyne, is the site of the fort of Segedunum, the eastern terminus of the wall, now surrounded by terraced houses and a metro station. A museum with a viewing tower overlooks the excavated remains, and visitors can walk along a section of reconstructed wall and see a full-size reconstruction of a Roman bathhouse.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 99 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2. Next is back through Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp.
4. back through Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Brown Dikes 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 Brown Dikes 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 Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp to Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2
Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2 is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2 to back through Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2 → back through Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp to Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel
back through Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.