CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 109 km round trip from Prudhoe - roughly 1 h 36 in the saddle. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel, Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s and back through Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s.
Most people meet Hadrian's Wall in the wild middle section around Housesteads, where it rides the crags of the Whin Sill. Out here at the eastern end, a few miles from Newcastle, it is a quieter, more domestic affair, and that is part of its charm. Heddon on the Wall, four kilometres away, keeps one of the longest surviving stretches of the wall's full broad foundation on this side of the country, a solid run of masonry beside the road, and the ground around it preserves the vallum, the great flat-bottomed ditch with banks on either side that the Romans dug just south of the wall to mark the military zone. Begun under the emperor Hadrian in AD 122, the whole frontier ran from the Tyne to the Solway, and it is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac.
Just north of Hexham, the A road climbs out of the Tyne valley and meets the Roman frontier on a high, windy shoulder of Northumberland. Here, near Acomb, Wall and the crossing of the North Tyne at Chollerford, the line of Hadrian's Wall and its vallum runs across open farmland, sometimes visible as a low bank, sometimes followed by the road itself. Like every stretch of the frontier, it belongs to the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and this middle section is where the wall starts to feel serious, heading west into the wild central crags.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac comes up 17 km in. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
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.
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34 km in you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel. Next is Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s.
Long before the wall existed, the Romans ran a road across the narrow neck of northern England, the Stanegate, linking the forts of Corbridge on the Tyne and Carlisle on the Eden. It was built around AD 80, in the time of the general Agricola, and it served as the frontier line for a generation before Hadrian ordered the wall to be built a little to the north. Forts and fortlets sat along it, among them Vindolanda and the small post at Haltwhistle Burn, and temporary camps like the one at Milestone House show where troops stopped on the move.
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Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s, about halfway.
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.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel sits at 68 km, about halfway. Next is back through Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s.
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back through Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s comes up 85 km in. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
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102 km in you reach back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc.
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The route ends here after 109 km.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac is 11 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → back through Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc is 11 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.