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 178 km round trip from Brampton - roughly 2 h 30 in the saddle. The stops in between: Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra, Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4 and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra. The line favours views over speed.
The Cam Beck is a small stream that tumbles out of the hills and runs down towards the Irthing, and the Wall crosses it near Banks, in a stretch where the line is still very clear. Here the Wall's visible remains run along a ridge, with the green bank of the Vallum behind, the long ditch that the Romans dug on the south side to mark the military zone. The label gives the place as the stretch between the Cam Beck and Newtown, in the east of Cumbria, and the walk there is among the easiest on the whole line, with open fields and distant views of the Pennines. The stone Wall was built on a narrower foundation here than in the east, and a turf Wall once stood alongside it.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Ne write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Ne is where the day begins. Next is Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp.
There is not much to see at Bean Burn, and that is rather the point. East of Haltwhistle, in the South Tyne valley a little below the line of Hadrian's Wall, archaeologists have traced the outline of a Roman temporary camp: a rectangle of low banks and ditches, often barely visible except from the air or in raking evening light. Camps like this were thrown up by soldiers on the march or during construction of the Wall, a night's or a season's shelter surrounded by a turf rampart and a ditch, with leather tents pitched inside in neat rows. Northumberland has an unusual concentration of them, and they tell a quieter story than the forts: of thousands of men moving across this landscape, digging in, moving on.
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Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra.
Just east of the point where the A68 crosses the line of Hadrian's Wall, at Portgate, the Romans had a gateway through the frontier for Dere Street, the great road running north from York into Scotland. Today the A68 follows much the same course, and the wall and its vallum run east and west across the fields here, sometimes visible as a bank or a ditch, sometimes buried under the Military Road. A little to the east, the fort of Halton Chesters, known to the Romans as Onnum, lies under the fields, and like the rest of the frontier, this stretch is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra write-up.
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about 59 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra. Next is Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4.
Newcastle is not where most people expect the Wall to end, but the Romans did not think of it as the end. The eastern terminus is at Wallsend, a few kilometres downriver, where the fort of Segedunum stood at the point where the Tyne widens, and from there the Wall ran west through what is now the centre of Newcastle. Wall mile 4 lies on that line, and Westgate Road, the main road west out of the city, follows it, so you may be riding along the line of the Wall without any sign. The Romans had a bridge over the Tyne at Newcastle, called Pons Aelius, the Bridge of Aelius, after Hadrian's family name, and the city grew up around the crossing.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4 write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra sits at 136 km, about halfway. Next is back through Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp comes up about 148 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Ne.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Ne write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Ne closes the day.
Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Ne → Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra → Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4 is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4 → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra → back through Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Ne is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.