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 68 km round trip from Carlisle - roughly 1 h 06 in the saddle. It goes by way of The vallum between the road to Garthside a, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel and back through The vallum between the road to Garthside a. 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 The vallum between the road to Garthside a.
Brampton is a small red sandstone market town at the edge of the Pennines, and just north of it, where the land rises toward the Irthing valley, a stretch of the vallum runs across the fields near Garthside. The vallum, the great ditch and banks that ran south of Hadrian's Wall, is often clearer than the wall itself in this area, because the stone of the wall was carried off long ago to build farmhouses, churches and even a priory. It is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site, and it is best seen in low light, when the earthworks cast long shadows.
Read the complete The vallum between the road to Garthside a write-up.
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The vallum between the road to Garthside a comes up about 14 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
Around Haltwhistle the wall country becomes the landscape everyone imagines: the Whin Sill, a long ridge of hard volcanic dolerite, rears up in a series of cliffs facing north, and the Romans used it as a ready-made rampart, running their stone wall along the very top. Between the crags and the road the vallum ditch runs across the fields as a broad, clear trench, and from any high point you can see the whole military system laid out: crag, wall, road and ditch side by side.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel write-up.
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about 34 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel. Next is back through The vallum between the road to Garthside a.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The vallum between the road to Garthside a write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through The vallum between the road to Garthside a, late in the day. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca. That is the ride.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca → The vallum between the road to Garthside a is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The vallum between the road to Garthside a → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → back through The vallum between the road to Garthside a is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The vallum between the road to Garthside a → Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.