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 Carlisle it runs 82 km to Carlisle; allow about 1 h 35 of riding. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce, Skinburness and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce. The line favours views over speed.
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 Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce.
Across the water from here lies Eastriggs, a quiet Scottish village with a loud past. During the First World War a huge munitions factory stretched for miles along the Solway coast from Gretna to Annan, and the cordite paste that women workers mixed by hand earned the nickname devil's porridge. Thousands lived in purpose-built townships, and the whole operation was kept secret. A museum in Eastriggs now tells the story. The reason the label brings us to the English shore, though, is the Roman frontier, because Hadrian's Wall did not simply stop at Bowness-on-Solway. Beyond it a chain of milefortlets and towers carried on down the Cumbrian coast, watching the sea rather than the hills.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce comes up about 13 km into the recorded legs. Next is Skinburness.
Skinburness is a scatter of houses at the tip of a shingle spit on the Solway coast of Cumbria, just north of Silloth, looking across the wide, shimmering estuary to the hills of Scotland. When the tide goes out, the Solway empties into vast expanses of sand and mud, with channels winding through them, and the light changes constantly as clouds race overhead. On clear evenings, the sunsets over the Scottish hills, with the dark bulk of Criffel opposite, are spectacular.
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about 41 km into the recorded legs you reach Skinburness. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce, 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 → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce → Skinburness is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Skinburness → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce → Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.