CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 150 km round trip from Greenhead - roughly 2 h 36 in the saddle. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La, Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail, Wolsty North tower 13a and back through Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail.
West of Birdoswald the Wall changes character. The central crags fall behind, the River Irthing loops through its gorge below, and the frontier runs across gentler farmland towards Banks and Hare Hill, where one of the tallest surviving fragments of the Wall still stands, patched by later hands. Here too the vallum, the great earthwork south of the Wall, can be traced across the fields, and the remains of turrets at Banks East and Pike Hill sit right beside the road. It is a quieter stretch than the famous sections further east, and all the better for it.
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 and vallum between Birky La.
Just east of Carlisle, near the village of Scotby, the Wall leaves almost no mark on the land. Here, at the western end of the Roman frontier, it was built first of turf and timber before being rebuilt in stone, and much of that stone has since been carried off to build farmhouses, churches and field walls. What survives is mostly buried, a faint line in the pasture or a slight ridge followed by a hedge. The vallum, the great earthwork that ran behind the wall, sometimes shows as a shallow trough in the fields. Yet this quiet stretch is part of the same World Heritage site as the dramatic crags further east, and walking the Hadrian's Wall Path through it gives a sense of continuity across the whole country.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail.
The Solway Firth narrows at Bowness-on-Solway, a small village of whitewashed cottages on a low headland, and this is where Hadrian's Wall ended, or rather began, at its western end.
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about 50 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail. Next is Wolsty North tower 13a.
Silloth is a small Victorian town on the Solway coast of Cumbria, built in the nineteenth century as a port and a seaside resort, with wide cobbled streets, a green along the seafront and views across the Solway Firth to the hills of Scotland. Just south of the town, at Wolsty, the Romans built a tower as part of the defences that extended Hadrian's Wall down the Cumbrian coast. Tower 13a was one of a chain of small towers and milefortlets, spaced along the shore to watch for raiders crossing the firth from the north.
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Wolsty North tower 13a, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail.
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Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail sits at 99 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La comes up about 125 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel closes the day.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La → Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail → Wolsty North tower 13a is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wolsty North tower 13a → back through Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.