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 Annan it runs 63 km to Annan; allow about 1 h 19 of riding. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f, Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The and back through Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f. The line favours views over speed.
The Wall does not end where most people think. Kirkland House is a name on the map; the point is the flat, open country around it, where the line of the Wall survives as a low, faint bank in places and a footpath on the line of the old ditch. The nearest listed towns, Annan and Eastriggs, are in Scotland across the water, so for a practical stop you want to look east and south instead, to Carlisle.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall north of Kirkland House write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall north of Kirkland House is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f.
West of Carlisle the Eden slows and starts to meander, swinging in wide loops through flat meadows on its way to the Solway, and here at Grinsdale Hadrian's Wall ran along the high ground above the river. It is a gentle, almost secret stretch of countryside, only a few miles from the city but feeling much further. The tiny hamlet of Grinsdale has a church dedicated to St Kentigern, an early saint associated with this region, and a scatter of farms. The Wall has gone, robbed for building stone centuries ago, but the line it followed is clear in the field boundaries and the lie of the land.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f comes up about 13 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The.
Do not expect a great stone wall here. Near Brampton, on the stretch running out toward the A6071, Hadrian's Wall is mostly a matter of earthworks and imagination: a line in a field, a softened ditch, the long parallel banks of the vallum to the south. In this western sector the wall was originally built of turf and timber before being rebuilt in stone, and centuries of farmers and builders carried off the dressed stones for barns and churches. What survives is listed as part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and once your eye tunes in, you start seeing the line everywhere.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The write-up.
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about 31 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall north of Kirkland House.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall north of Kirkland House write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hadrian's Wall north of Kirkland House. That is the ride.
Hadrian's Wall north of Kirkland House → Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f → Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The → back through Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f → Hadrian's Wall north of Kirkland House is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.