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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64 km from Wallsend to Wallsend, about 1 h 05 of riding. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 9, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632 and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 9. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Wallsend, the name itself is the clue. This is the east end of Hadrian's Wall, on the north bank of the Tyne about five miles from the centre of Newcastle, where the Romans built a fort called Segedunum to guard the river and anchor the frontier. The label's Wall mile 1 is a reference to the first stretch of the Wall measured from here, and the fort and the short section of reconstructed Wall nearby are the real thing to see. Wallsend is a working Tyneside town of about forty-three thousand people, and Hebburn, on the other bank, has a similar shape; both were built around shipyards and mines.
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Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 1 is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 9.
Nine Roman miles west of the wall's starting point at Wallsend, the frontier is already climbing out of the Tyne valley, and here on the edge of Newburn and Heddon-on-the-Wall you can still find it in the fields. Emperor Hadrian ordered the wall in AD 122, a stone barrier across the narrowest part of northern Britain from the Tyne to the Solway, and behind it the army dug the Vallum, a broad ditch flanked by earth mounds that marked the military zone from the civilian south. On this stretch the Vallum is often easier to read than the wall itself, a long shallow trough running through the grass, especially when the evening light comes in low and picks out every bump.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 9 comes up about 15 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632.
East of Hexham, the Roman frontier crosses gentler country, a rolling landscape of fields, hedges and small woods north of the Tyne valley. Here the Wall itself has mostly disappeared, its stones long since recycled into farmhouses, field walls and the eighteenth-century Military Road that runs along its line. But the vallum, the broad ditch with mounds on either side that marked the southern edge of the military zone, survives in places as a clear earthwork across the fields, and walkers on the Hadrian's Wall Path follow it for miles. This section is part of the same World Heritage site as the dramatic crags further west.
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about 30 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 9.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 9, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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Back at Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 1. That is the ride.
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 1 → Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 9 is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 9 → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632 is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632 → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 9 is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 9 → Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 1 is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.