CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Gateshead it runs 113 km to Gateshead; allow about 1 h 45 of riding. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 10, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters and Stone circle.
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 in wall mile 10.
Heddon-on-the-Wall is aptly named. Just west of Newcastle, on a ridge above the Tyne, the village sits right on the line of Hadrian's Wall, and at its eastern edge is the longest surviving stretch of the broad wall still visible in the east, a section of thick, solid masonry about a hundred metres long, complete with the foundations of a medieval kiln built into it. Wall mile 10 is the stretch around here, counting westward from Wallsend, and it is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site. South of the wall, the vallum, a huge ditch flanked by earth mounds, can still be traced across the fields.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 10 comes up about 16 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 29 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters.
The North Tyne comes down from the Kielder hills and the empty moorland of the border, and at Chollerford it passes beneath an old stone bridge on its way to meet the South Tyne near Hexham. Just west of the bridge, the Wall strides away uphill from Chesters fort, and this stretch, with the Wall and the vallum running together across farmland and woods, is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters, about halfway. Next is Stone circle.
Long before the Romans built their wall across northern England, people were raising stones on these moors. Close to the line of Hadrian's Wall, in the hills north of Haydon Bridge and Haltwhistle, a small prehistoric stone circle stands in the rough grass, a few weathered boulders arranged in a ring, probably dating from the Bronze Age. Its exact purpose is unknown, but circles like this were often used for ceremonies or burials, and many have legends attached to them.
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Stone circle sits at 68 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters comes up about 70 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632.
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about 84 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 10.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 10, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2.
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The route ends here after 113 km.
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2 → Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 10 is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 10 → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632 is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632 → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters → Stone circle is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Stone circle → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632 is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632 → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 10 is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 10 → Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2 is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.