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 67 km round trip from Haltwhistle - roughly 1 h 13 in the saddle. On the way it passes Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The and back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
North of Haltwhistle the land rises in a series of dark ridges, and along their crest runs the most dramatic surviving stretch of Hadrian's Wall. Built from AD 122 on the orders of the emperor Hadrian, the wall ran some seventy three miles from the Tyne to the Solway, with forts, milecastles and turrets along its length, and here, between Walltown Crags and Birdoswald, it climbs and drops along the edge of the Whin Sill, a band of hard volcanic rock that forms natural cliffs facing north. The wall is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site.
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Hadrian's Wall is where the day begins. Next is Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
The Wall comes into its own here, at the Irthing gorge, where the line runs along a high shelf above the river and you can see why the Romans picked it. Birdoswald fort, known to them as Banna, sits right on that edge, with a long view down the valley and the ground falling away to the water.
Read the complete Frontiers of the Roman Empire write-up.
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Frontiers of the Roman Empire comes up about 15 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The.
Do not expect a great stone wall here. Near Brampton, on the stretch running out toward the A6071, Hadrian's Wall is mostly a matter of earthworks and imagination: a line in a field, a softened ditch, the long parallel banks of the vallum to the south. In this western sector the wall was originally built of turf and timber before being rebuilt in stone, and centuries of farmers and builders carried off the dressed stones for barns and churches. What survives is listed as part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and once your eye tunes in, you start seeing the line everywhere.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The write-up.
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about 33 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The. Next is back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Frontiers of the Roman Empire write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hadrian's Wall. That is the ride.
Hadrian's Wall → Frontiers of the Roman Empire is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Frontiers of the Roman Empire → Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The → back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire → Hadrian's Wall is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.