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 121 km to Newcastle upon Tyne; allow about 1 h 52 of riding. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall and vallum from East Town H, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra, Walwick Fell Roman temporary camp and The vallum and a British settlement betwee.
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.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum from East Town H write-up.
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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 Walwick Fell Roman temporary camp.
Roman armies on campaign dug in every night. Wherever they halted, soldiers threw up a rectangular earth rampart and ditch around their tents, and on Walwick Fell, a short way west of the North Tyne, the faint outline of one of those temporary camps survives in the rough pasture. You need a keen eye and low sunlight to make it out, but its presence is a reminder that the Wall was built, maintained and defended by thousands of men who lived and worked in these hills, sometimes under canvas, sometimes in stone forts.
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Walwick Fell Roman temporary camp, about halfway. Next is The vallum and a British settlement betwee.
There is a stretch of Hadrian's Wall that everybody has seen in photographs: the Wall riding the crest of the Whin Sill like a stone ribbon, plunging into dips and climbing again, with a long, dark lake, Crag Lough, beneath the cliffs. This is it, near Steel Rigg and Once Brewed, and the site on the label, the vallum and the remains of a native British settlement, lies just to the south in the shadow of the crags. It is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site, and it is a reminder that people lived here long before the Romans and kept living here while the soldiers watched over them.
Read the complete The vallum and a British settlement betwee write-up.
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The vallum and a British settlement betwee sits at 68 km, about halfway. Next is back through Walwick Fell Roman temporary camp.
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Read the complete Walwick Fell Roman temporary camp write-up.
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back through Walwick Fell Roman temporary camp comes up about 76 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra write-up.
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about 92 km into the recorded legs you reach back through 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.
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The route ends here after 121 km.
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 → Walwick Fell Roman temporary camp is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Walwick Fell Roman temporary camp → The vallum and a British settlement betwee is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The vallum and a British settlement betwee → back through Walwick Fell Roman temporary camp is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Walwick Fell Roman temporary camp → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum from East Town H is 12 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.