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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From Carlisle it runs 330 km to Carlisle; allow about 4 h 41 of riding. It goes by way of Burrow Walls Roman fort, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel and back through Burrow Walls Roman fort. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
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Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 56 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
Just west of Chollerford the road climbs onto higher ground and the Wall begins to show itself, first as a hump in the fields, then as a ditch and earthwork running alongside the tarmac. This is the central sector of Hadrian's Wall, built from the 120s on the orders of the emperor Hadrian to mark the northern edge of Roman Britain, and the stretch around Carrawburgh is one of the most atmospheric. The vallum, a broad ditch flanked by mounds on the southern side of the Wall, is especially clear here, and it shows the Roman frontier was not just a wall but a whole military zone, with forts, milecastles, turrets, roads and earthworks.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel write-up.
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about 165 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel. Next is back through Burrow Walls Roman fort.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Burrow Walls Roman fort write-up.
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back through Burrow Walls Roman fort, late in the day. Next is 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary. That is the ride.
Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary → Burrow Walls Roman fort is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Burrow Walls Roman fort → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 109 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → back through Burrow Walls Roman fort is 109 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Burrow Walls Roman fort → Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.