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 135 km round trip from Carlisle - roughly 2 h 25 in the saddle. The stops in between: Boothby Roman fort, Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between St Oswal and back through Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Carlisle was the western hub of Hadrian's Wall, and on its northern edge, at Stanwix, stood the largest fort on the whole frontier. Known to the Romans as Uxelodunum, it held a cavalry regiment about a thousand strong, and its commander was one of the most important officers on the wall. Little of it is visible now, since the fort lies under the streets and gardens of a suburb, but the line of the wall can be traced through the town, in parts of the pavement and the shape of the streets, and a short surviving section lies in a quiet corner near the river Eden.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav is where the day begins. Next is Boothby Roman fort.
Brampton is a small red-sandstone market town on the edge of the northern Pennines, and just outside it, on the line of the old Stanegate road, lay Boothby, one of the Roman forts that guarded the frontier before Hadrian's Wall was built. There is nothing much to see on the ground now, only a field and a slight rise, but the location is a good jumping-off point for some of the best riding and the best Wall sites in Cumbria.
Read the complete Boothby Roman fort write-up.
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Boothby Roman fort comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. Next is Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti.
Haltwhistle likes to call itself the centre of Britain, a claim based on being halfway between the north and south coasts of the island, and while other towns dispute it, nobody disputes that it is the best base for exploring the central section of Hadrian's Wall. Just north of the town, on the rough ground below the crags, Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp is one of several marching camps where Roman troops on the move dug defences for a night or longer, and the label includes a section of the vallum nearby. It is all part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
Read the complete Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti write-up.
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about 44 km into the recorded legs you reach Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between St Oswal.
North of Hexham, where the land rises above the Tyne valley, the B6318, the military road built in the eighteenth century partly on top of Hadrian's Wall, runs straight across open country, and here, near the hamlet of St Oswald's, the remains of the wall and the vallum, the great earthwork that ran along its southern side, are clearly visible in the fields. The vallum was a broad ditch flanked by mounds, marking a military zone, and its scale still impresses. This stretch is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between St Oswal write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between St Oswal, about halfway. Next is back through Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti write-up.
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back through Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti sits at 102 km, about halfway. Next is back through Boothby Roman fort.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Boothby Roman fort write-up.
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back through Boothby Roman fort comes up about 113 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav closes the day.
Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav → Boothby Roman fort is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Boothby Roman fort → Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between St Oswal is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between St Oswal → back through Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti → back through Boothby Roman fort is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Boothby Roman fort → Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.