CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Hexham it runs 229 km to Hexham; allow about 3 h 05 of riding. It goes by way of Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp, The Stangate at Crosby Lodge, Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp and Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Hadrian's Wall runs for about seventy-three miles across the north of England, from the Solway Firth in the west to the Tyne in the east, built on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian after his visit to Britain in 122 AD.
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Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun is where the day begins. Next is Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp.
Haltwhistle likes to call itself the centre of Britain, and whether or not you believe the measurements, it sits at the very heart of Hadrian's Wall country. Just outside the town, on a gentle slope called Sunny Rigg, the outlines of two Roman temporary camps have been traced, rectangular enclosures with rounded corners where units on the march, or building the wall, pitched their leather tents behind a bank and a ditch for a night or a season. They are part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site, though on the ground you will see only faint lines in the grass, best appreciated from the air or in low evening light.
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Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp comes up 34 km in. Next is The Stangate at Crosby Lodge.
Before there was a Wall, there was a road. The Stanegate, a Roman route running east to west between the Tyne at Corbridge and the Eden at Carlisle, was the first frontier line in northern Britain, guarded by a string of forts decades before Hadrian ordered his great barrier built a little to the north. Near Crosby-on-Eden, a few miles east of Carlisle, the line of the old road passes through gentle farmland on the north bank of the Eden, and while there is little to see of the road itself, the landscape tells the story of how the Romans picked their way across this narrow neck of the country.
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68 km in you reach The Stangate at Crosby Lodge. Next is Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp.
Sunny Rigg is a name that sounds like a farm, and that is more or less what it is, a stretch of rough pasture on the high ground just north of Haltwhistle, in Northumberland, where archaeologists have found the faint outline of a Roman temporary camp. These camps were built by marching armies at the end of each day's journey, with a ditch and a rampart thrown up around the tents to protect them overnight, and they were abandoned the next morning. Most survive only as shallow earthworks or crop marks seen from the air, which is why the places are so evocative: they record a single night of an army's life on the march, two thousand years ago.
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Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp, about halfway. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's.
East of Carlisle, the Eden river bends through a broad red-sandstone valley, and the line of Hadrian's Wall once ran across it. Little of the wall is visible here, because stone was reused for houses and field walls over the centuries, but the course is known, and the Vallum, the great ditch and mounds on the south side, leaves faint marks in the fields. The sector between Baron's Close and the nearby farms runs through gentle pasture, with hedgerows, oak trees and cattle, and the memory of soldiers is carried by the land itself.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's sits at 137 km, about halfway. Next is back through Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp.
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back through Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp comes up 171 km in. Next is back through The Stangate at Crosby Lodge.
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205 km in you reach back through The Stangate at Crosby Lodge. Next is back through Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp.
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back through Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun.
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The route ends here after 229 km.
Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun → Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp → The Stangate at Crosby Lodge is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Stangate at Crosby Lodge → Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's → back through Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp → back through The Stangate at Crosby Lodge is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Stangate at Crosby Lodge → back through Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.