Why this ride
263 km from Brampton to Brampton, about 4 h 03 of riding. It goes by way of Wolsty North tower 13a, The English Lake District and back through Wolsty North tower 13a.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi and The English Lake District
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 263 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 03
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
Wolsty North tower 13a → The English Lake District
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 62 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 70 km
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi
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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi is where the day begins. Next is Wolsty North tower 13a.
2. Wolsty North tower 13a
Silloth is a small Victorian town on the Solway coast of Cumbria, built in the nineteenth century as a port and a seaside resort, with wide cobbled streets, a green along the seafront and views across the Solway Firth to the hills of Scotland. Just south of the town, at Wolsty, the Romans built a tower as part of the defences that extended Hadrian's Wall down the Cumbrian coast. Tower 13a was one of a chain of small towers and milefortlets, spaced along the shore to watch for raiders crossing the firth from the north.
Read the complete Wolsty North tower 13a write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Wolsty North tower 13a comes up about 60 km into the recorded legs. Next is The English Lake District.
3. The English Lake District
Wordsworth wandered lonely as a cloud round here, and anybody who has ridden the Lake District on a wet bank holiday will understand the appeal of being lonely. The English Lake District, listed by UNESCO in 2017 as a cultural landscape, is a compact knot of mountains, lakes and valleys in Cumbria, shaped by glaciers and then by centuries of sheep farming, slate quarrying and, from the late eighteenth century, by poets, painters and tourists who came looking for the sublime.
Read the complete The English Lake District write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 130 km into the recorded legs you reach The English Lake District. Next is back through Wolsty North tower 13a.
4. back through Wolsty North tower 13a
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wolsty North tower 13a write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Wolsty North tower 13a, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi.
5. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi to Wolsty North tower 13a
Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi → Wolsty North tower 13a is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wolsty North tower 13a to The English Lake District
Wolsty North tower 13a → The English Lake District is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The English Lake District to back through Wolsty North tower 13a
The English Lake District → back through Wolsty North tower 13a is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Wolsty North tower 13a to Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi
back through Wolsty North tower 13a → Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.