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 Benwell it runs 395 km to Benwell; allow about 5 h 20 of riding. The stops in between: Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp, Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of and back through Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp. The line favours views over speed.
Wall mile 6 is not a place name but a measurement, since the Romans divided Hadrian's Wall into numbered miles counting from the east, and the sixth mile falls at Benwell, now a western suburb of Newcastle. Here, between terraces of Victorian houses, the remains of the Roman fort of Condercum once looked out over the Tyne valley, and you can still see a stretch of the Wall's foundation, the base of a turret and the remains of a small temple dedicated to a local god, Antenociticus, one of the few such temples to survive along the frontier. The fort stood on a ridge above the river, a good place to watch for trouble and a good place to be seen.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 6 write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 6 is where the day begins. Next is Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp.
There is not much to see at Bean Burn, and that is rather the point. East of Haltwhistle, in the South Tyne valley a little below the line of Hadrian's Wall, archaeologists have traced the outline of a Roman temporary camp: a rectangle of low banks and ditches, often barely visible except from the air or in raking evening light. Camps like this were thrown up by soldiers on the march or during construction of the Wall, a night's or a season's shelter surrounded by a turf rampart and a ditch, with leather tents pitched inside in neat rows. Northumberland has an unusual concentration of them, and they tell a quieter story than the forts: of thousands of men moving across this landscape, digging in, moving on.
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Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp comes up about 51 km into the recorded legs. Next is Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of.
Fountains Abbey is the largest monastic ruin in Britain, and it stands in a valley so green and quiet that it hardly seems real. In 1132, a group of Benedictine monks, dissatisfied with the lax life at York, left their abbey and sought a stricter rule, and with the help of the archbishop, they settled in this remote valley beside the river Skell. They became Cistercians, and over the next four centuries the abbey grew rich on sheep and wool, building a huge church, a vaulted cellarium, and a tower that still rises above the ruins. Henry VIII dissolved the abbey in 1539, and the roofs were stripped for lead.
Read the complete Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of write-up.
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about 198 km into the recorded legs you reach Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of. Next is back through Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 6.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 6 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 6. That is the ride.
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 6 → Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp → Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of is 147 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of → back through Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp is 145 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 6 is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.