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 328 km to Carlisle; allow about 4 h 36 of riding. It goes by way of Burrow Walls Roman fort, Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall & and back through Burrow Walls Roman fort. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
West of Carlisle, Hadrian's Wall heads out across flat farmland toward the Solway Firth, and the closer you get to the estuary, the quieter it becomes. Along this stretch, the wall itself has largely gone, robbed for stone over the centuries, but the vallum, the wide ditch with its mounds that ran behind it, can still be traced in places, and the line passes the sites of Roman forts and the civilian settlements that grew up around them. At Stanwix, now a suburb on the north bank of the Eden, stood the largest fort on the whole wall, home to a cavalry regiment of a thousand men. Further west, at Burgh by Sands, another fort lies beneath the village and its fortified church, built partly with Roman stone.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl is where the day begins. 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.
Read the complete Burrow Walls Roman fort write-up.
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Burrow Walls Roman fort comes up about 54 km into the recorded legs. Next is Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall &.
Of all the Roman sites along Hadrian's Wall, Carrawburgh may be the most mysterious. The fort itself, called Brocolitia, is largely unexcavated, a grassy platform beside the Military Road, but just below it, in a boggy hollow, stands the reconstructed outline of a small temple of Mithras, the soldiers' god, whose cult was popular among the Roman army. The temple was excavated in 1949, and its three altars, now replaced by replicas, the originals being in the Great North Museum in Newcastle, were dedicated by commanders of the garrison. Nearby, a spring dedicated to the water goddess Coventina yielded an astonishing hoard of coins, altars and offerings when it was excavated in the nineteenth century, around thirteen thousand coins in all.
Read the complete Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall & write-up.
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about 164 km into the recorded legs you reach Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall &. Next is back through Burrow Walls Roman fort.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Burrow Walls Roman fort write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Burrow Walls Roman fort, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl. That is the ride.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl → Burrow Walls Roman fort is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Burrow Walls Roman fort → Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall & is 110 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall & → back through Burrow Walls Roman fort is 110 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Burrow Walls Roman fort → Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.