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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198 km from Wallsend to Wallsend, about 2 h 49 of riding. On the way it passes Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel and back through Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp. The line favours views over speed.
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 Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp.
Look for a faint rectangle in the rough grass north of the Military Road, a few kilometres west of Chollerford, and you will have found Brown Dikes, one of a cluster of Roman temporary camps on the high ground above the North Tyne. Nothing stands here, no walls or gates, only low earthworks that the grazing sheep have softened over nearly two thousand years. But these camps are among the most evocative traces of the Roman army in Britain, because they mark where soldiers actually slept and worked while the frontier was being built and garrisoned.
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Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp comes up about 51 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
Carlisle was a Roman town before it was an English one. Luguvalium grew beside the Eden, and just across the river at Stanwix stood the largest fort on Hadrian's Wall, home to a cavalry regiment of a thousand men. The wall itself ran along the north side of today's city, and though houses and roads cover it, its line can be traced by plaques and fragments, and the wall and its Vallum are part of the UNESCO listing. A stretch of the ditch and the foundations of milecastles are visible beyond the suburbs.
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about 99 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel. Next is back through Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp write-up.
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back through Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 1. That is the ride.
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 1 → Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → back through Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 1 is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.