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 Haltwhistle it runs 125 km to Haltwhistle; allow about 1 h 45 of riding. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc, Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2 and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc. The line favours views over speed.
Around Haltwhistle the wall climbs on to the Whin Sill, a hard ridge of dark volcanic rock that runs across northern England like a spine, and the effect is among the most dramatic on the whole frontier. The wall rides the crest of crags, rising and falling over the rock, with a steep drop to the north and long views over moorland, and the Roman engineers made full use of the natural defence. The vallum, a broad flat-bottomed ditch with mounds on either side, runs in the valley to the south, and it marks the boundary of the military zone behind the wall.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters.
The North Tyne comes down from the Kielder hills and the empty moorland of the border, and at Chollerford it passes beneath an old stone bridge on its way to meet the South Tyne near Hexham. Just west of the bridge, the Wall strides away uphill from Chesters fort, and this stretch, with the Wall and the vallum running together across farmland and woods, is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc.
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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about 41 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc. Next is Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2.
Most people picture Hadrian's Wall striding across lonely Northumberland crags. Wall mile 2 is the other end of the story: an urban stretch in the east of Newcastle upon Tyne, where the wall ran from the fort at Wallsend, Segedunum, westwards along the north bank of the Tyne towards the bridge and fort at Pons Aelius, beneath today's city centre. Very little of the wall itself is visible here; terraced houses, roads and shipyards have long since swallowed it. But you are standing on the first miles of a frontier that once ran coast to coast for about eighty Roman miles.
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Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc sits at 101 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters comes up about 104 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road closes the day.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc → Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2 is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2 → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.