Why this ride
From Brampton it runs 275 km to Brampton; allow about 4 h 14 of riding. The stops in between: Skinburness, The English Lake District and back through Skinburness. It strings together lakeside roads.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel and The English Lake District
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 275 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 14
- 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.
Scenic road chapters
Skinburness → The English Lake District
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 67 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 72 km
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 Skinburness.
2. Skinburness
Skinburness is a scatter of houses at the tip of a shingle spit on the Solway coast of Cumbria, just north of Silloth, looking across the wide, shimmering estuary to the hills of Scotland. When the tide goes out, the Solway empties into vast expanses of sand and mud, with channels winding through them, and the light changes constantly as clouds race overhead. On clear evenings, the sunsets over the Scottish hills, with the dark bulk of Criffel opposite, are spectacular.
Read the complete Skinburness write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Skinburness comes up about 64 km into the recorded legs. Next is The English Lake District.
3. The English Lake District
Wordsworth wandered lonely as a cloud round here, and anybody who has ridden the Lake District on a wet bank holiday will understand the appeal of being lonely. The English Lake District, listed by UNESCO in 2017 as a cultural landscape, is a compact knot of mountains, lakes and valleys in Cumbria, shaped by glaciers and then by centuries of sheep farming, slate quarrying and, from the late eighteenth century, by poets, painters and tourists who came looking for the sublime.
Read the complete The English Lake District write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 136 km into the recorded legs you reach The English Lake District. Next is back through Skinburness.
4. back through Skinburness
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Skinburness write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Skinburness, 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 Skinburness
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Skinburness is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Skinburness to The English Lake District
Skinburness → The English Lake District is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The English Lake District to back through Skinburness
The English Lake District → back through Skinburness is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Skinburness to Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel
back through Skinburness → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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