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 166 km round trip from Haltwhistle - roughly 3 h 01 in the saddle. It goes by way of Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscrip, Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl, Skinburness and back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The stretch of Wall near Cawfields is where the whole thing makes the most sense, because the Romans used the landscape. Here the Great Whin Sill, a hard ridge of dark dolerite, rises in a line of crags along the north, and the Wall runs along the top of it, looking down over a drop on one side and a long slope on the other. Close to Cockmount Hill, the Wall and its southern ditch, the vallum, are both visible, and the milefortlet at Cawfields is one of the best preserved on the line, a square enclosure with a gateway still standing. Nearby, an old quarry has filled with water to make a small, dark lake at the foot of the crags.
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Hadrian's Wall between the track to Cockmo is where the day begins. Next is Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscrip.
Beside the river Gelt, a small stream that runs through a wooded sandstone gorge east of Carlisle, a smooth face of rock bears an inscription cut by Roman soldiers some eighteen centuries ago. This is the Written Rock of Gelt. It marks the quarry where legionaries cut stone for the western part of Hadrian's Wall, and it records their work, with names and dates, in neat Latin letters that are still readable though weathered by the rain.
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Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscrip comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl.
West of Carlisle, Hadrian's Wall heads out across flat farmland toward the Solway Firth, and the closer you get to the estuary, the quieter it becomes. Along this stretch, the wall itself has largely gone, robbed for stone over the centuries, but the vallum, the wide ditch with its mounds that ran behind it, can still be traced in places, and the line passes the sites of Roman forts and the civilian settlements that grew up around them. At Stanwix, now a suburb on the north bank of the Eden, stood the largest fort on the whole wall, home to a cavalry regiment of a thousand men. Further west, at Burgh by Sands, another fort lies beneath the village and its fortified church, built partly with Roman stone.
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about 51 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl. Next is Skinburness.
Skinburness is a scatter of houses at the tip of a shingle spit on the Solway coast of Cumbria, just north of Silloth, looking across the wide, shimmering estuary to the hills of Scotland. When the tide goes out, the Solway empties into vast expanses of sand and mud, with channels winding through them, and the light changes constantly as clouds race overhead. On clear evenings, the sunsets over the Scottish hills, with the dark bulk of Criffel opposite, are spectacular.
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Skinburness, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl.
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back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl sits at 104 km, about halfway. Next is back through Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscrip.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscrip comes up about 142 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall between the track to Cockmo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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Hadrian's Wall between the track to Cockmo closes the day.
Hadrian's Wall between the track to Cockmo → Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscrip is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscrip → Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl → Skinburness is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Skinburness → back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl → back through Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscrip is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscrip → Hadrian's Wall between the track to Cockmo is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.