CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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105 km from Prudhoe to Prudhoe, about 1 h 32 of riding. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel, Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp and Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar.
The road west from Heddon-on-the-Wall runs straight as a ruler, and there is a reason for that. The B6318, known locally as the Military Road, was built by General Wade's engineers after the Jacobite rising of 1745 so that troops could move quickly between Newcastle and Carlisle, and for long stretches they laid it right on top of Hadrian's Wall, using the Roman stones as foundation. At Oatens Bank, just beyond Heddon, you ride with the Wall beneath your tyres and the ditch and vallum still visible in the fields beside you, two thousand years of frontier engineering compressed into a few metres.
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Hadrian's Wall from Oatens Bank is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun.
Hadrian's Wall runs for about seventy-three miles across the north of England, from the Solway Firth in the west to the Tyne in the east, built on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian after his visit to Britain in 122 AD.
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Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun comes up 17 km in. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
Here the Wall is at its most dramatic. In the central sector of Hadrian's Wall, north of Haydon Bridge and Hexham in Northumberland, the Roman frontier runs along the top of the Whin Sill, a long ridge of hard volcanic rock that breaks the moorland into a series of north-facing cliffs. The Romans built their wall right along the crest, using the natural defences, and the result is a line of stone that rises and falls with the crags like the spine of a great animal. Behind it, to the south, runs the vallum, a broad earthwork ditch with mounds on either side that marked the military zone, still clearly visible across the fields.
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33 km in you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel. 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.
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Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp, about halfway. Next is Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar.
Building Hadrian's Wall took an enormous amount of stone, and the Romans quarried it wherever they could find good sandstone near the line. In the woods and crags around Banks and Lanercost, east of Brampton, several of these quarries survive, and on the rock faces the soldiers who worked them left their marks: names, unit symbols and short inscriptions carved into the stone nearly two thousand years ago. Coombe Crag, near the Wall here, is one of the best known, with names scratched by men who were probably bored, tired and far from home. Finding them takes a bit of searching and some imagination, as the letters are worn and lichen-covered, but there is something deeply human about them.
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Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar sits at 66 km, about halfway. Next is back through Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp.
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back through Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp comes up 83 km in. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
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99 km in you reach back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun.
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back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall from Oatens Bank.
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The route ends here after 105 km.
Hadrian's Wall from Oatens Bank → Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun is 12 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp is 11 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp → Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar → back through Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 11 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun → Hadrian's Wall from Oatens Bank is 12 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.