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 76 km round trip from Brampton - roughly 1 h 26 in the saddle. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor, Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be and back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 22 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
The Emperor Hadrian visited Britain in AD 122 and ordered a wall built from coast to coast, and the soldiers who did the work left their marks in stone that still stands across the north of England. The section near Brampton, in Cumbria, lies toward the western end of the Wall, where it crossed gentler country toward Carlisle and the Solway Firth. Here the Wall was first built partly in turf and later rebuilt in stone, and the remains of turrets, milecastles and the ditch can still be traced in the fields. Hadrian's Wall is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor.
On the eastern edge of Carlisle, where the M6 motorway sweeps north towards Scotland, the line of Hadrian's Wall crosses the fields and housing estates in a way that is barely visible. Yet the vallum, the great ditch the Romans dug south of the Wall, can still be traced here as a slight dip in the ground, and this stretch between the motorway and the outskirts of the city is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site. It takes some imagination, but standing here you are on the line that marked the edge of the empire for nearly three hundred years.
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Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor comes up about 15 km into the recorded legs. Next is Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be.
The small Roman fort at Drumburgh sat on a low rise above the Solway marshes, guarding a stretch of Hadrian's Wall where the frontier ran along the edge of the firth towards its western end at Bowness. Nothing much survives of the fort itself, but its stones did not go far. Drumburgh Castle, a fortified farmhouse built in the sixteenth century by the Dacre family, is clearly made from reused Roman masonry, and you can still pick out dressed blocks and even the odd carved fragment set into its walls.
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about 39 km into the recorded legs you reach Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi. That is the ride.
Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi → Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor → Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be → back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor → Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.