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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A 127 km round trip from Annan - roughly 2 h 05 in the saddle. It goes by way of The vallum between the field boundary sout, Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp and back through The vallum between the field boundary sout. 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 The vallum between the field boundary sout.
Not every stretch of Hadrian's Wall is the dramatic crag-top masonry of the postcards, and this is one of the quieter parts: a section of the vallum, the great ditch-and-mound earthwork the Romans dug behind the wall, running across farmland near Brampton in Cumbria. The stone wall here was largely robbed out long ago for farms and churches, so what survives is often a long, soft hollow in the grass, a line you only notice once someone points it out, and then can't stop seeing.
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The vallum between the field boundary sout comes up about 36 km into the recorded legs. Next is Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp.
The Twice Brewed inn gives its name to a stretch of Northumberland where the Roman frontier is at its most dramatic. Here the Great Whin Sill, a hard sheet of dark volcanic rock, breaks in a long line of cliffs facing north, and the Wall runs along the very edge of it, rising and falling like a stone roller-coaster. Haltwhistle, five kilometres off, is the nearest town, and Hexham lies a good deal further east.
Read the complete Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp write-up.
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about 64 km into the recorded legs you reach Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp. Next is back through The vallum between the field boundary sout.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The vallum between the field boundary sout write-up.
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back through The vallum between the field boundary sout, 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 → The vallum between the field boundary sout is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The vallum between the field boundary sout → Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp → back through The vallum between the field boundary sout is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The vallum between the field boundary sout → Hadrian's Wall north of Kirkland House is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.