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 318 km to Annan; allow about 4 h 43 of riding. The stops in between: Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp, The English Lake District and back through Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp. It strings together lakeside roads.
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 Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp.
Haltwhistle sits in the Tyne Gap, the low cleft where the South Tyne and the old Carlisle road squeeze between the high moors of the north Pennines and the Whin Sill ridge, and that gap is the reason the Romans cared about this ground. A temporary camp is exactly what it sounds like: a ditched and banked enclosure thrown up for a night or a few weeks by an army on the march or on building duty, then abandoned. Most were ploughed flat long ago and now show only as crop marks or faint corners in a pasture, so go in expecting a field, not a ruin. What you get is the story, and the story is good.
Read the complete Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp write-up.
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Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp comes up about 55 km into the recorded legs. Next is The English Lake District.
Wordsworth wandered lonely as a cloud round here, and anybody who has ridden the Lake District on a wet bank holiday will understand the appeal of being lonely. The English Lake District, listed by UNESCO in 2017 as a cultural landscape, is a compact knot of mountains, lakes and valleys in Cumbria, shaped by glaciers and then by centuries of sheep farming, slate quarrying and, from the late eighteenth century, by poets, painters and tourists who came looking for the sublime.
Read the complete The English Lake District write-up.
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about 159 km into the recorded legs you reach The English Lake District. Next is back through Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp, 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 → Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp → The English Lake District is 104 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The English Lake District → back through Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp is 104 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall north of Kirkland House is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.