Why this ride
From Annan it runs 77 km to Annan; allow about 1 h 23 of riding. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary, Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversd and back through Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and B and Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversd
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 77 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 23
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and B
The western end of Hadrian's Wall is not where most people expect. Instead of a grand terminus, the frontier fades out among the tidal mud and salt marsh of the Solway Firth, near the village of Bowness-on-Solway, where the last fort once stood. Between Port Carlisle and Bowness the wall is almost entirely gone, its stones carried away for later buildings, and what survives is a line across the fields, a slight rise and a path along the shore. In this section the wall was originally built of turf rather than stone, a cheaper material for the flatter, softer ground.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and B write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and B is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary.
2. Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary
Just outside Carlisle, among hedges and grazing fields, a short protected length of ground marks where Hadrian's Wall once ran between two farm boundaries. That is all the official name means, and the honest truth is that there is very little to see: a gentle bank, perhaps a slight ditch, the alignment of a hedge that follows the Roman line because nobody ever bothered to move it. What makes it worth a pause is the bigger picture. The wall here was heading for the crossing of the River Eden, where it met the fort of Stanwix on the north bank, the biggest fort on the entire frontier, home to an elite cavalry regiment a thousand strong.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversd.
3. Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversd
East of Carlisle the Eden valley opens into a wide, quiet plain of dairy farms, hedges and red sandstone villages, and Hadrian's Wall crosses it with very little to show. Here the Wall was not built of stone at first. West of the river Irthing the Romans made it out of turf, a sloping rampart of cut sods with timber milecastles, and only later rebuilt it in stone. What survives in the fields around Laversdale is mostly a line of banks and ditches, visible as a ripple in the grass and in the pattern of the hedges, and the road that you follow probably owes its direction to the old frontier. It is a fine place to understand that the Wall was a system, not just a fence: a ditch, a barrier, a patrol road and a back ditch called the Vallum.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversd write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 38 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversd. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary.
4. back through Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and B.
5. Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and B
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and B write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and B. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and B to Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary
Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and B → Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary to Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversd
Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary → Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversd is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversd to back through Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary
Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversd → back through Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary to Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and B
back through Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary → Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and B is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.