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 Benwell it runs 106 km to Benwell; allow about 1 h 26 of riding. The stops in between: The vallum between Oatens Bank, Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel and Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp.
It takes a little imagination to find the Roman frontier in Benwell, a suburb on the western hill of Newcastle, but it is there, tucked between semi-detached houses and bus stops. Wall mile 7 counts the distance from the Wall's eastern end at Wallsend, and in this part of the city the Romans built a fort called Condercum on the high ground above the Tyne, with fine views up and down the river. Most of it now lies under roads and housing, yet two small survivals make the detour worthwhile.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 7 is where the day begins. Next is The vallum between Oatens Bank.
Look south of the road near Oatens Bank, just west of Heddon on the Wall, and you will see it: a broad, flat-bottomed ditch running across the fields, with a low mound on either side. That is the vallum, and it is one of the strangest and most debated elements of Hadrian's Wall. It runs parallel to the wall, a short distance to the south, along most of its length, and it seems to have marked the rear edge of the military zone, controlling access from the south rather than defending against attack from the north. Crossings were limited to causeways opposite the forts, which suggests a kind of customs line.
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The vallum between Oatens Bank comes up about 14 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun.
Hadrian's Wall runs for about seventy-three miles across the north of England, from the Solway Firth in the west to the Tyne in the east, built on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian after his visit to Britain in 122 AD.
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about 26 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
Here the Wall is at its most dramatic. In the central sector of Hadrian's Wall, north of Haydon Bridge and Hexham in Northumberland, the Roman frontier runs along the top of the Whin Sill, a long ridge of hard volcanic rock that breaks the moorland into a series of north-facing cliffs. The Romans built their wall right along the crest, using the natural defences, and the result is a line of stone that rises and falls with the crags like the spine of a great animal. Behind it, to the south, runs the vallum, a broad earthwork ditch with mounds on either side that marked the military zone, still clearly visible across the fields.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel, about halfway. Next is Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp.
Haltwhistle likes to call itself the centre of Britain, a claim measured, by one method or another, from the farthest tips of the island, and it does sit in the narrow waist of the country, between the North Sea and the Irish Sea. The town, with about four thousand people, lies in the South Tyne valley, just south of Hadrian's Wall, and it is a good base for exploring the central section of the frontier.
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Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp sits at 68 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel comes up about 64 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun.
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about 78 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun. Next is back through The vallum between Oatens Bank.
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back through The vallum between Oatens Bank, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 7.
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The route ends here after 106 km.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 7 → The vallum between Oatens Bank is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The vallum between Oatens Bank → Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun is 12 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun → 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 → Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp is 12 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 12 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 & vallum between field boun is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun → back through The vallum between Oatens Bank is 12 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The vallum between Oatens Bank → Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 7 is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.