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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A 329 km round trip from Carlisle - roughly 4 h 39 in the saddle. On the way it passes Burrow Walls Roman fort, Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall & and back through Burrow Walls Roman fort. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
West of Carlisle the Eden slows and starts to meander, swinging in wide loops through flat meadows on its way to the Solway, and here at Grinsdale Hadrian's Wall ran along the high ground above the river. It is a gentle, almost secret stretch of countryside, only a few miles from the city but feeling much further. The tiny hamlet of Grinsdale has a church dedicated to St Kentigern, an early saint associated with this region, and a scatter of farms. The Wall has gone, robbed for building stone centuries ago, but the line it followed is clear in the field boundaries and the lie of the land.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f is where the day begins. Next is Burrow Walls Roman fort.
On the northern edge of Workington, near the mouth of the river Derwent, a fragment of stone wall stands alone in a field, a jagged piece of masonry rising above the grass. It is part of Burrow Walls, a Roman fort that guarded the Cumbrian coast, one of the chain of defences that extended from the western end of Hadrian's Wall down the shore to watch for raiders crossing from Scotland and Ireland. Much of the fort's stone was reused in a medieval building on the site, and what survives today is modest, but it is part of the Hadrian's Wall World Heritage site and has a lonely charm, with views over the sea and the river.
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Burrow Walls Roman fort comes up about 55 km into the recorded legs. Next is Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall &.
Of all the Roman sites along Hadrian's Wall, Carrawburgh may be the most mysterious. The fort itself, called Brocolitia, is largely unexcavated, a grassy platform beside the Military Road, but just below it, in a boggy hollow, stands the reconstructed outline of a small temple of Mithras, the soldiers' god, whose cult was popular among the Roman army. The temple was excavated in 1949, and its three altars, now replaced by replicas, the originals being in the Great North Museum in Newcastle, were dedicated by commanders of the garrison. Nearby, a spring dedicated to the water goddess Coventina yielded an astonishing hoard of coins, altars and offerings when it was excavated in the nineteenth century, around thirteen thousand coins in all.
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about 165 km into the recorded legs you reach Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall &. Next is back through Burrow Walls Roman fort.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Burrow Walls Roman fort write-up.
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back through Burrow Walls Roman fort, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f. That is the ride.
Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f → Burrow Walls Roman fort is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Burrow Walls Roman fort → Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall & is 110 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall & → back through Burrow Walls Roman fort is 110 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Burrow Walls Roman fort → Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.