Why this ride
197 km from Carlisle to Carlisle, about 2 h 48 of riding. It goes by way of Brown Moor Roman temporary camp, Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0 and back through Brown Moor Roman temporary camp.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari and Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 197 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 48
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari
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.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari is where the day begins. Next is Brown Moor Roman temporary camp.
2. Brown Moor Roman temporary camp
A couple of kilometres west of Chollerford, the Military Road climbs onto open moorland, and at a place called Limestone Corner, the most northerly point of Hadrian's Wall, the Romans gave up. Their ditch in front of the Wall was supposed to be cut through solid rock here, and you can still see where they started: huge blocks of whinstone split by wedges and left lying in the ditch, with holes for the levers still visible, as if the workers had just walked away for lunch. Brown Moor, close by, is the site of one of several Roman temporary camps in this stretch, where soldiers camped while building the Wall or moving through the frontier zone, their outlines barely visible in the rough grass.
Read the complete Brown Moor Roman temporary camp write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Brown Moor Roman temporary camp comes up about 49 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0.
3. Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0
Wall mile zero is where Hadrian's Wall began, or ended, depending on which way you are riding, and it is in the most unlikely setting you could imagine: Wallsend, on the north bank of the Tyne, among terraced streets and the cranes of what was once one of the great shipbuilding rivers of the world. The town's name says it all. Here stood Segedunum, the easternmost fort of the wall, and its foundations have been laid bare beside the road, with a viewing tower that lets you see the whole plan at once, barracks, headquarters and gates, like a diagram on the ground.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 99 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0. Next is back through Brown Moor Roman temporary camp.
4. back through Brown Moor Roman temporary camp
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Brown Moor Roman temporary camp write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Brown Moor Roman temporary camp, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari.
5. Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari to Brown Moor Roman temporary camp
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari → Brown Moor Roman temporary camp is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brown Moor Roman temporary camp to Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0
Brown Moor Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0 is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0 to back through Brown Moor Roman temporary camp
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0 → back through Brown Moor Roman temporary camp is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Brown Moor Roman temporary camp to Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari
back through Brown Moor Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.