CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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264 km from Haydon Bridge to Haydon Bridge, about 4 h 20 of riding. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel, Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of, Beckfoot Roman fort and Parton Roman fort. 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 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.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of.
The Solway Firth, west of Carlisle, is a wide, shallow estuary where the Cumbrian plain opens out to the sea, and the marshes and farmland on its southern shore are the western end of Hadrian's Wall, with the Scottish hills visible on the far side. The land is low, wet and windy, with cattle in the fields and tall skies full of birds, and a visitor will find little that looks like Roman engineering until they look closely at the ground.
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about 61 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of. Next is Beckfoot Roman fort.
Most people think Hadrian's Wall ended at Bowness-on-Solway, and in stone it did. But the Romans did not trust the shallow Solway Firth to keep raiders out, so they carried their defences on down the Cumbrian coast for many miles: a chain of small milefortlets and watchtowers, with proper forts at intervals, all the way to Maryport and beyond. Beckfoot is one of those forts, on a low bluff a few kilometres south of Silloth, looking straight across the water to Scotland. Above ground there is almost nothing, just a field with faint outlines, but aerial photos and excavations have shown the fort, its civilian settlement and its cemetery, and coastal erosion keeps nibbling at the remains.
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Beckfoot Roman fort, about halfway. Next is Parton Roman fort.
Hadrian's Wall stopped at Bowness-on-Solway, but the Roman frontier did not. Down the Cumbrian coast, the army built a chain of forts, milefortlets and towers to watch the sea and stop raiders slipping round the end of the Wall, and Parton, just north of Whitehaven, was one of them. The fort is known from excavations and records rather than standing remains, and the coastal defences as a whole are included in the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Standing on the cliffs above the sea, you can see why the Romans worried: across the water lie the Isle of Man and, on clear days, the hills of Scotland.
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Parton Roman fort sits at 144 km, about halfway. Next is back through Beckfoot Roman fort.
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back through Beckfoot Roman fort comes up about 166 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of.
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about 203 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel, late in the day.
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The route ends here after 264 km.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of → Beckfoot Roman fort is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Beckfoot Roman fort → Parton Roman fort is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parton Roman fort → back through Beckfoot Roman fort is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Beckfoot Roman fort → back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.