Why this ride
A 200 km round trip from Carlisle - roughly 2 h 53 in the saddle. It goes by way of Brown Moor Roman temporary camp, Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0 and back through Brown Moor Roman temporary camp.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech G and Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 200 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 53
- 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.
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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 Tarraby and Beech G
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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech G is where the day begins. Next is Brown Moor Roman temporary camp.
2. Brown Moor Roman temporary camp
A couple of kilometres west of Chollerford, the Military Road climbs onto open moorland, and at a place called Limestone Corner, the most northerly point of Hadrian's Wall, the Romans gave up. Their ditch in front of the Wall was supposed to be cut through solid rock here, and you can still see where they started: huge blocks of whinstone split by wedges and left lying in the ditch, with holes for the levers still visible, as if the workers had just walked away for lunch. Brown Moor, close by, is the site of one of several Roman temporary camps in this stretch, where soldiers camped while building the Wall or moving through the frontier zone, their outlines barely visible in the rough grass.
Read the complete Brown Moor Roman temporary camp write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Brown Moor Roman temporary camp comes up about 50 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0.
3. Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0
Wall mile zero is where Hadrian's Wall began, or ended, depending on which way you are riding, and it is in the most unlikely setting you could imagine: Wallsend, on the north bank of the Tyne, among terraced streets and the cranes of what was once one of the great shipbuilding rivers of the world. The town's name says it all. Here stood Segedunum, the easternmost fort of the wall, and its foundations have been laid bare beside the road, with a viewing tower that lets you see the whole plan at once, barracks, headquarters and gates, like a diagram on the ground.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 100 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0. Next is back through Brown Moor Roman temporary camp.
4. back through Brown Moor Roman temporary camp
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Brown Moor Roman temporary camp write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Brown Moor Roman temporary camp, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech G.
5. 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.
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 Tarraby and Beech G. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech G to Brown Moor Roman temporary camp
Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech G → Brown Moor Roman temporary camp is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brown Moor Roman temporary camp to Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0
Brown Moor Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0 is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0 to back through Brown Moor Roman temporary camp
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0 → back through Brown Moor Roman temporary camp is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Brown Moor Roman temporary camp to Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech G
back through Brown Moor Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech G is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.