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 129 km round trip from Wallsend - roughly 1 h 58 in the saddle. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc, The Roman fort, Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s and back through The Roman fort. The line favours views over speed.
Hadrian's Wall begins, or ends, in a suburb of Newcastle, and it is a surprise to find it there. Wallsend, on the north bank of the Tyne, is the site of the fort of Segedunum, the eastern terminus of the wall, now surrounded by terraced houses and a metro station. A museum with a viewing tower overlooks the excavated remains, and visitors can walk along a section of reconstructed wall and see a full-size reconstruction of a Roman bathhouse.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2 write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2 is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc.
Most people meet Hadrian's Wall in the wild middle section around Housesteads, where it rides the crags of the Whin Sill. Out here at the eastern end, a few miles from Newcastle, it is a quieter, more domestic affair, and that is part of its charm. Heddon on the Wall, four kilometres away, keeps one of the longest surviving stretches of the wall's full broad foundation on this side of the country, a solid run of masonry beside the road, and the ground around it preserves the vallum, the great flat-bottomed ditch with banks on either side that the Romans dug just south of the wall to mark the military zone. Begun under the emperor Hadrian in AD 122, the whole frontier ran from the Tyne to the Solway, and it is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc comes up about 23 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Roman fort.
Down by the North Tyne, where the river runs fast over stones under a canopy of trees, a Roman cavalry regiment once kept its horses and its very comfortable bath house. Chesters, the fort the Romans called Cilurnum, sat astride Hadrian's Wall near the village of Walwick, guarding the bridge that carried the wall across the river. It is one of the best preserved forts along the wall, with the headquarters building, the commander's house and the bath house still standing to knee or shoulder height, and the remains of the bridge abutment visible on the far bank.
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about 43 km into the recorded legs you reach The Roman fort. Next is Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s.
Long before the wall existed, the Romans ran a road across the narrow neck of northern England, the Stanegate, linking the forts of Corbridge on the Tyne and Carlisle on the Eden. It was built around AD 80, in the time of the general Agricola, and it served as the frontier line for a generation before Hadrian ordered the wall to be built a little to the north. Forts and fortlets sat along it, among them Vindolanda and the small post at Haltwhistle Burn, and temporary camps like the one at Milestone House show where troops stopped on the move.
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Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s, about halfway. Next is back through The Roman fort.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Roman fort write-up.
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back through The Roman fort sits at 103 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc comes up about 106 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2 closes the day.
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2 → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc → The Roman fort is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Roman fort → Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s → back through The Roman fort is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Roman fort → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the Marc → Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2 is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.