CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 348 km round trip from Haltwhistle - roughly 4 h 21 in the saddle. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 8 f, Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 8 f. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 in wall mile 8 f.
Here, at the western edge of Newcastle, the Roman frontier starts to escape the city. Wall mile 8 lies around Newburn and Throckley, with Blaydon across the Tyne and the suburbs thinning into fields as you head west. The masonry itself has mostly vanished under roads, houses and farmland, but the line of the Wall and the great earthwork of the Vallum to its south can still be followed in hummocks, ditches and the occasional consolidated stretch of stone, most famously a little further west at Heddon-on-the-Wall, where a long run survives at nearly its full original width.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 8 f comes up about 52 km into the recorded legs. Next is Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of.
Fountains Abbey is the largest monastic ruin in Britain, and it stands in a valley so green and quiet that it hardly seems real. In 1132, a group of Benedictine monks, dissatisfied with the lax life at York, left their abbey and sought a stricter rule, and with the help of the archbishop, they settled in this remote valley beside the river Skell. They became Cistercians, and over the next four centuries the abbey grew rich on sheep and wool, building a huge church, a vaulted cellarium, and a tower that still rises above the ruins. Henry VIII dissolved the abbey in 1539, and the roofs were stripped for lead.
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about 178 km into the recorded legs you reach Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 8 f.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 8 f, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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Back at Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road. That is the ride.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road → Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 8 f is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 8 f → Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of is 126 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 8 f is 118 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 8 f → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.