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 Brampton it runs 212 km to Brampton; allow about 3 h 11 of riding. The stops in between: Defended settlement and Roman signal stati, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630, Roman fort and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630. 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.
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Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi is where the day begins. Next is Defended settlement and Roman signal stati.
The South Tyne valley below Haydon Bridge is one of the best places in England to understand why the Romans chose this line. To the north rises the long whinstone crag, the Whin Sill, a hard dark rock that stands up in a series of cliffs facing north, and along its crest Hadrian's Wall once ran. South of it lies the valley, with the river, the old road called the Stanegate and a string of forts. A defended settlement and signal station here would have been part of this web, sitting on high ground where a fire or flag could pass news along the line in minutes.
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Defended settlement and Roman signal stati comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630.
Out at the eastern end of the frontier, the Wall leaves the moors behind and runs through gentle farmland toward Newcastle, and most of what survives here is not stone but earth: the vallum, a broad ditch flanked by banks that the Romans dug just south of the Wall along almost its entire length. Between the Tyne and the Military Road, near Heddon-on-the-Wall and Rudchester, the vallum can be traced in the fields as a long hollow, and the Wall itself lies largely under the road or as low courses in the grass. Its purpose is still debated, but most scholars see it as a boundary marking the military zone, controlling who could approach the Wall.
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about 65 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630. Next is Roman fort.
At the mouth of the Tyne, on a rise above the river, stands a reconstructed Roman gateway that looks surprisingly new. It belongs to Arbeia, the Roman fort at South Shields, which supplied the soldiers along Hadrian's Wall and was built, strategically, to guard the entrance to the river. Ships unloaded grain and other goods here, and the stores were carried along the Wall's line, so this was the logistical heart of the frontier. Reconstructed buildings, including the gatehouse, a barrack and a commander's house, show how it looked, and the museum holds finds from the site.
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Roman fort, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630.
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Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630 write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630 sits at 149 km, about halfway. Next is back through Defended settlement and Roman signal stati.
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back through Defended settlement and Roman signal stati comes up about 180 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi closes the day.
Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi → Defended settlement and Roman signal stati is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Defended settlement and Roman signal stati → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630 is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630 → Roman fort is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roman fort → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630 is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630 → back through Defended settlement and Roman signal stati is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Defended settlement and Roman signal stati → Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.