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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65 km from Annan to Annan, about 1 h 16 of riding. It goes by way of Nowtler Hill 1 Roman temporary camp, Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The and back through Nowtler Hill 1 Roman temporary camp. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Solway Firth is a strange piece of sea. It is wide and shallow and has some of the biggest tidal ranges in Britain, and at low water it empties into a landscape of sand, mud and channels where the tide can return faster than a walker can run. On its northern shore, the Scottish side, the land around Eastriggs and Annan is flat salt marsh and farmland, backed by low green hills, and across the water you can see the Cumbrian fells rising bluish and far off. The Roman frontier ended on the other side, at Bowness, but the Romans watched this shore too, and the wall's western run along the English edge is the reason the area is on the heritage map.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between Apple Garth write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall between Apple Garth is where the day begins. Next is Nowtler Hill 1 Roman temporary camp.
Carlisle is a border city, and it has been fought over for two thousand years. The Romans founded Luguvalium here to serve the Wall and the road north, and a settlement has stood beside the Eden ever since. The red sandstone cathedral dates from the twelfth century, and the castle beside it held Mary Queen of Scots for two months in 1568, after she fled across the Solway. In 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's Highland army took the city on its march into England and lost it on the way back, and the Jacobite prisoners were held in the castle. The names of the old border families, the Armstrongs, Grahams and Nixons, still fill the telephone book.
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Nowtler Hill 1 Roman temporary camp comes up about 15 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The.
Do not expect a great stone wall here. Near Brampton, on the stretch running out toward the A6071, Hadrian's Wall is mostly a matter of earthworks and imagination: a line in a field, a softened ditch, the long parallel banks of the vallum to the south. In this western sector the wall was originally built of turf and timber before being rebuilt in stone, and centuries of farmers and builders carried off the dressed stones for barns and churches. What survives is listed as part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and once your eye tunes in, you start seeing the line everywhere.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The write-up.
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about 32 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The. Next is back through Nowtler Hill 1 Roman temporary camp.
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Read the complete Nowtler Hill 1 Roman temporary camp write-up.
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back through Nowtler Hill 1 Roman temporary camp, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall between Apple Garth.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between Apple Garth write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hadrian's Wall between Apple Garth. That is the ride.
Hadrian's Wall between Apple Garth → Nowtler Hill 1 Roman temporary camp is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nowtler Hill 1 Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The → back through Nowtler Hill 1 Roman temporary camp is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Nowtler Hill 1 Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall between Apple Garth is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.