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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171 km from Newburn to Newburn, about 2 h 30 of riding. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters, Hadrian's Wall, Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari and back through Hadrian's Wall. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Heddon-on-the-Wall is aptly named. Just west of Newcastle, on a ridge above the Tyne, the village sits right on the line of Hadrian's Wall, and at its eastern edge is the longest surviving stretch of the broad wall still visible in the east, a section of thick, solid masonry about a hundred metres long, complete with the foundations of a medieval kiln built into it. Wall mile 10 is the stretch around here, counting westward from Wallsend, and it is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site. South of the wall, the vallum, a huge ditch flanked by earth mounds, can still be traced across the fields.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 10 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 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall.
If you only have time for one stretch of Hadrian's Wall, make it the central section between Haltwhistle and Housesteads. Here the Wall runs along the top of the Whin Sill, a long ridge of hard volcanic rock that forms a natural cliff facing north, and the stone curtain rides the crests like a rollercoaster, dipping into gaps and climbing again. Built from AD 122 on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian, it stretched about seventy-three miles from coast to coast, with milecastles, turrets and forts along its length. The UNESCO listing covers it as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
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about 55 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari.
Carlisle has been a frontier city for nearly two thousand years, and the vallum that runs across its northern edge is part of the reason. North of the River Eden, in the suburb of Stanwix, stood the largest fort on the whole of Hadrian's Wall, home to a cavalry regiment a thousand strong. The fort lies under the streets and the churchyard now, but the line of the Wall and its rear earthwork, the vallum, can be traced across the fields and gardens to the west, and walkers on the national trail follow it out of the city towards the Solway.
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Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall.
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back through Hadrian's Wall sits at 137 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 144 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 10.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 10 closes the day.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 10 → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters → Hadrian's Wall is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall → Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari → back through Hadrian's Wall is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters is 28 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 in wall mile 10 is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.