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 Haydon Bridge it runs 314 km to Haydon Bridge; allow about 4 h 24 of riding. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0, Nowtler Hill 2 Roman temporary camp and back through Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Just west of Chollerford the road climbs onto higher ground and the Wall begins to show itself, first as a hump in the fields, then as a ditch and earthwork running alongside the tarmac. This is the central sector of Hadrian's Wall, built from the 120s on the orders of the emperor Hadrian to mark the northern edge of Roman Britain, and the stretch around Carrawburgh is one of the most atmospheric. The vallum, a broad ditch flanked by mounds on the southern side of the Wall, is especially clear here, and it shows the Roman frontier was not just a wall but a whole military zone, with forts, milecastles, turrets, roads and earthworks.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0.
Wall mile zero is where Hadrian's Wall began, or ended, depending on which way you are riding, and it is in the most unlikely setting you could imagine: Wallsend, on the north bank of the Tyne, among terraced streets and the cranes of what was once one of the great shipbuilding rivers of the world. The town's name says it all. Here stood Segedunum, the easternmost fort of the wall, and its foundations have been laid bare beside the road, with a viewing tower that lets you see the whole plan at once, barracks, headquarters and gates, like a diagram on the ground.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0 write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0 comes up about 50 km into the recorded legs. Next is Nowtler Hill 2 Roman temporary camp.
Not every Roman monument is made of stone. North of Carlisle, on low ground close to the Solway plain, the traces of a Roman temporary camp show up mainly as marks in the ground and in crops: a square or rectangle of ditch and bank, with rounded corners, where an army spent a night or two under leather tents. Nowtler Hill was one of those places. Marching armies built such camps every evening, digging the ditch and piling the earth into a rampart topped with stakes, so that even a short halt was protected.
Read the complete Nowtler Hill 2 Roman temporary camp write-up.
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about 157 km into the recorded legs you reach Nowtler Hill 2 Roman temporary camp. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0 write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0, 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 → Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0 is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0 → Nowtler Hill 2 Roman temporary camp is 107 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Nowtler Hill 2 Roman temporary camp → back through Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0 is 107 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0 → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.