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 133 km round trip from Brampton - roughly 1 h 51 in the saddle. The stops in between: Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp.
Haltwhistle likes to call itself the centre of Britain, a claim measured, by one method or another, from the farthest tips of the island, and it does sit in the narrow waist of the country, between the North Sea and the Irish Sea. The town, with about four thousand people, lies in the South Tyne valley, just south of Hadrian's Wall, and it is a good base for exploring the central section of the frontier.
Read the complete Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp write-up.
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Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters.
The North Tyne comes down from the Kielder hills and the empty moorland of the border, and at Chollerford it passes beneath an old stone bridge on its way to meet the South Tyne near Hexham. Just west of the bridge, the Wall strides away uphill from Chesters fort, and this stretch, with the Wall and the vallum running together across farmland and woods, is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters write-up.
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about 44 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc.
Most people meet Hadrian's Wall in the wild middle section around Housesteads, where it rides the crags of the Whin Sill. Out here at the eastern end, a few miles from Newcastle, it is a quieter, more domestic affair, and that is part of its charm. Heddon on the Wall, four kilometres away, keeps one of the longest surviving stretches of the wall's full broad foundation on this side of the country, a solid run of masonry beside the road, and the ground around it preserves the vallum, the great flat-bottomed ditch with banks on either side that the Romans dug just south of the wall to mark the military zone. Begun under the emperor Hadrian in AD 122, the whole frontier ran from the Tyne to the Solway, and it is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters sits at 102 km, about halfway. Next is back through Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp comes up about 109 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi closes the day.
Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi → Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters → back through Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.