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 Carlisle it runs 248 km to Carlisle; allow about 3 h 35 of riding. It goes by way of Hadrian's Wall, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters, Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 10 and Durham Castle and Cathedral. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 37 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Carlisle has been a frontier city for nearly two thousand years, and the vallum that runs across its northern edge is part of the reason. North of the River Eden, in the suburb of Stanwix, stood the largest fort on the whole of Hadrian's Wall, home to a cavalry regiment a thousand strong. The fort lies under the streets and the churchyard now, but the line of the Wall and its rear earthwork, the vallum, can be traced across the fields and gardens to the west, and walkers on the national trail follow it out of the city towards the Solway.
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Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall.
If you only have time for one stretch of Hadrian's Wall, make it the central section between Haltwhistle and Housesteads. Here the Wall runs along the top of the Whin Sill, a long ridge of hard volcanic rock that forms a natural cliff facing north, and the stone curtain rides the crests like a rollercoaster, dipping into gaps and climbing again. Built from AD 122 on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian, it stretched about seventy-three miles from coast to coast, with milecastles, turrets and forts along its length. The UNESCO listing covers it as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
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Hadrian's Wall comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters.
The North Tyne comes down from the Kielder hills and the empty moorland of the border, and at Chollerford it passes beneath an old stone bridge on its way to meet the South Tyne near Hexham. Just west of the bridge, the Wall strides away uphill from Chesters fort, and this stretch, with the Wall and the vallum running together across farmland and woods, is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
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about 58 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 10.
Heddon-on-the-Wall is aptly named. Just west of Newcastle, on a ridge above the Tyne, the village sits right on the line of Hadrian's Wall, and at its eastern edge is the longest surviving stretch of the broad wall still visible in the east, a section of thick, solid masonry about a hundred metres long, complete with the foundations of a medieval kiln built into it. Wall mile 10 is the stretch around here, counting westward from Wallsend, and it is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site. South of the wall, the vallum, a huge ditch flanked by earth mounds, can still be traced across the fields.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 10, about halfway. Next is Durham Castle and Cathedral.
The river Wear loops around a rocky peninsula in a tight horseshoe, and on top of it, rising above the trees, stand Durham Cathedral and Durham Castle, one of the most impressive views in Britain. The Normans built both in the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries, soon after the Conquest, as a statement of power in the turbulent north. The cathedral is a masterpiece of Romanesque architecture, with massive columns carved with zigzags and spirals, and its stone rib vaults are among the earliest of their kind in Europe, pointing the way to Gothic architecture. Together, castle and cathedral were listed by UNESCO in 1986.
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Durham Castle and Cathedral sits at 140 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 10.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 10 comes up about 163 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters.
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about 190 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall.
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back through Hadrian's Wall, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari.
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Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari write-up.
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The route ends here after 248 km.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari → Hadrian's Wall is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters → Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 10 is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 10 → Durham Castle and Cathedral is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Durham Castle and Cathedral → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 10 is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 10 → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Chesters → back through Hadrian's Wall is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall → Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.