CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Carlisle it runs 166 km to Carlisle; allow about 2 h 47 of riding. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so, Wolsty South tower 13b, Burrow Walls Roman fort and back through Wolsty South tower 13b. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
There is an old joke that Hadrian's Wall is easiest to find where it has gone. In the western suburbs of Carlisle it has, for the most part, vanished under houses, roads and fields, and what remains is a faint line of ditch and bank that only becomes obvious when you stand in the right place. The vallum, the great earthwork that ran south of the Wall, is one of those traces. It was a flat-bottomed ditch with a mound on either side, a sort of military boundary zone that kept civilians, and raiders, from the soldiers' side of the frontier. It was dug on the orders of the emperor Hadrian, who came to Britain in AD 122, and it is one of the more puzzling pieces of Roman engineering.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so.
Between Bowness-on-Solway and Drumburgh, the road follows the shore of the Solway Firth along a strip of land so flat and low that the highest tides cover it, and the line of Hadrian's Wall and its vallum runs just inland, through fields and past farms. This stretch, near Port Carlisle and Glasson, is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site. Little is visible of the Wall itself, which was robbed for stone long ago, but the vallum and other earthworks can be traced in places by those with a keen eye.
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Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Wolsty South tower 13b.
Hadrian's Wall gets the fame, but the Roman frontier did not simply stop at Bowness-on-Solway. Beyond the end of the wall, a chain of milefortlets and towers continued down the Cumbrian coast, watching the Solway Firth for raiders from the north. Wolsty South, tower 13b, was one of them, a small stone watchtower near Silloth on the low, windy coast. There is little to see today, often just a mark in the ground, but the site is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listed by UNESCO, and its position tells a story: from here, Roman soldiers looked across the water to the hills of Scotland.
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about 60 km into the recorded legs you reach Wolsty South tower 13b. Next is Burrow Walls Roman fort.
On the northern edge of Workington, near the mouth of the river Derwent, a fragment of stone wall stands alone in a field, a jagged piece of masonry rising above the grass. It is part of Burrow Walls, a Roman fort that guarded the Cumbrian coast, one of the chain of defences that extended from the western end of Hadrian's Wall down the shore to watch for raiders crossing from Scotland and Ireland. Much of the fort's stone was reused in a medieval building on the site, and what survives today is modest, but it is part of the Hadrian's Wall World Heritage site and has a lonely charm, with views over the sea and the river.
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Burrow Walls Roman fort, about halfway. Next is back through Wolsty South tower 13b.
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back through Wolsty South tower 13b sits at 105 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so.
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back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so comes up about 138 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca closes the day.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca → Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so → Wolsty South tower 13b is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wolsty South tower 13b → Burrow Walls Roman fort is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Burrow Walls Roman fort → back through Wolsty South tower 13b is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Wolsty South tower 13b → back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so → Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.