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 159 km round trip from Carlisle - roughly 2 h 37 in the saddle. On the way it passes Knockcross Roman temporary camp at Grey Ha, Wolsty South tower 13b, Burrow Walls Roman fort and back through Wolsty South tower 13b. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Carlisle has been a border city for two thousand years, and the Romans were the first to make it one. On the eastern edge, around Tarraby, the line of Hadrian's Wall passes beneath modern housing, and for much of its length here there is nothing to see above ground except the occasional dip in a field or a bend in a lane that follows the old ditch. The great fort of Uxelodunum, now buried beneath Stanwix, was the largest on the whole wall, home to a thousand cavalrymen, which tells you how much weight the Romans put on this crossing of the river Eden.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech G write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech G is where the day begins. Next is Knockcross Roman temporary camp at Grey Ha.
The Solway Firth is shallow and wide on its Scottish side, and between Annan and Gretna the land is flat and green, with sheep and cattle, field boundaries lined with hawthorn, and long views across the water to the Lake District hills.
Read the complete Knockcross Roman temporary camp at Grey Ha write-up.
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Knockcross Roman temporary camp at Grey Ha comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Wolsty South tower 13b.
Hadrian's Wall gets the fame, but the Roman frontier did not simply stop at Bowness-on-Solway. Beyond the end of the wall, a chain of milefortlets and towers continued down the Cumbrian coast, watching the Solway Firth for raiders from the north. Wolsty South, tower 13b, was one of them, a small stone watchtower near Silloth on the low, windy coast. There is little to see today, often just a mark in the ground, but the site is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listed by UNESCO, and its position tells a story: from here, Roman soldiers looked across the water to the hills of Scotland.
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about 56 km into the recorded legs you reach Wolsty South tower 13b. 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, about halfway. Next is back through Wolsty South tower 13b.
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Read the complete Wolsty South tower 13b write-up.
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back through Wolsty South tower 13b sits at 105 km, about halfway. Next is back through Knockcross Roman temporary camp at Grey Ha.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Knockcross Roman temporary camp at Grey Ha write-up.
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back through Knockcross Roman temporary camp at Grey Ha comes up about 133 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech G.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech G write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech G closes the day.
Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech G → Knockcross Roman temporary camp at Grey Ha is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Knockcross Roman temporary camp at Grey Ha → Wolsty South tower 13b is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wolsty South tower 13b → Burrow Walls Roman fort is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Burrow Walls Roman fort → back through Wolsty South tower 13b is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Wolsty South tower 13b → back through Knockcross Roman temporary camp at Grey Ha is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Knockcross Roman temporary camp at Grey Ha → Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech G is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.