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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From Newcastle upon Tyne it runs 60 km to Newcastle upon Tyne; allow about 53 min of riding. It goes by way of Hadrian's Wall and vallum from East Town H, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum from East Town H.
Newcastle is not where most people expect the Wall to end, but the Romans did not think of it as the end. The eastern terminus is at Wallsend, a few kilometres downriver, where the fort of Segedunum stood at the point where the Tyne widens, and from there the Wall ran west through what is now the centre of Newcastle. Wall mile 4 lies on that line, and Westgate Road, the main road west out of the city, follows it, so you may be riding along the line of the Wall without any sign. The Romans had a bridge over the Tyne at Newcastle, called Pons Aelius, the Bridge of Aelius, after Hadrian's family name, and the city grew up around the crossing.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4 write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4 is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum from East Town H.
Heddon-on-the-Wall announces its pedigree in its name, and just east of the village, on the slope down towards Newcastle, you find the longest surviving stretch of the Wall in the eastern sector. It is a section of broad wall, built to the original specification of about ten Roman feet thick, before the builders further west were told to save time and stone by making it narrower. Standing beside it, with fields falling away towards the Tyne, you get a strong sense of the scale of the project: this curtain once ran unbroken for eighty Roman miles.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum from East Town H comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra write-up.
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about 29 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum from East Town H.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum from East Town H write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum from East Town H, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4. That is the ride.
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4 → Hadrian's Wall and vallum from East Town H is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum from East Town H → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra is 12 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 East Town H is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum from East Town H → Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4 is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.