CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 61 km round trip from Newcastle upon Tyne - roughly 59 min in the saddle. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall and vallum from Throckley t, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum from Throckley t. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Most people picture Hadrian's Wall striding across lonely Northumberland crags. Wall mile 2 is the other end of the story: an urban stretch in the east of Newcastle upon Tyne, where the wall ran from the fort at Wallsend, Segedunum, westwards along the north bank of the Tyne towards the bridge and fort at Pons Aelius, beneath today's city centre. Very little of the wall itself is visible here; terraced houses, roads and shipyards have long since swallowed it. But you are standing on the first miles of a frontier that once ran coast to coast for about eighty Roman miles.
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Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2 is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum from Throckley t.
Heddon-on-the-Wall is the place where the Wall comes up out of the suburbs and stands in the open. Here, west of Newcastle, a stretch of the Wall's foundation and lower courses survives beside the village, one of the few places in the east where it rises above knee height, and it is of the so-called Broad Wall type, wider than the narrower version built later in the sequence. The Romans changed their plan during construction, and here you can read the evidence in stone. Beside it, the vallum shows as a shallow ditch, and a short walk takes you along the line toward Throckley.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum from Throckley t comes up 18 km in. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra.
Just east of the point where the A68 crosses the line of Hadrian's Wall, at Portgate, the Romans had a gateway through the frontier for Dere Street, the great road running north from York into Scotland. Today the A68 follows much the same course, and the wall and its vallum run east and west across the fields here, sometimes visible as a bank or a ditch, sometimes buried under the Military Road. A little to the east, the fort of Halton Chesters, known to the Romans as Onnum, lies under the fields, and like the rest of the frontier, this stretch is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
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35 km in you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum from Throckley t.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum from Throckley t, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2.
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Back at Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2. That is the ride.
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2 → Hadrian's Wall and vallum from Throckley t is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum from Throckley t → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum from Throckley t is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum from Throckley t → Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2 is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.