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 63 km round trip from Annan - roughly 1 h 22 in the saddle. The stops in between: Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps, Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The and back through Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps. The line favours views over speed.
The vallum is the strangest part of Hadrian's Wall, and a good place to see it is on the flat ground near Bowness-on-Solway. It is a broad, deep ditch with a flat bottom, flanked by two mounds of earth set back from the edge, and it ran along the south side of the wall for its whole length. Nobody is certain what it was for, but the best theory is that it marked the rear boundary of a military zone, a line that civilians could cross only at controlled points, which fits with the idea of the wall as a border of customs and security as well as defence.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou is where the day begins. Next is Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps.
Carlisle is where the Roman frontier met the border of two kingdoms, and the city holds all of that history in a compact space. The Romans built a fort here called Luguvalium, beside the River Eden, and it was an important base for the western end of the Wall. In the Middle Ages the red sandstone castle was the stronghold of the English border, and Mary, Queen of Scots, was held there for two months in 1568 after fleeing across the Solway. The cathedral, one of the smallest in England, has a huge east window and a painted ceiling of gold stars on blue. Tullie House Museum tells the story from the Romans to the border reivers, the raiding families of the borderland.
Read the complete Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps write-up.
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Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps comes up about 13 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The.
Do not expect a great stone wall here. Near Brampton, on the stretch running out toward the A6071, Hadrian's Wall is mostly a matter of earthworks and imagination: a line in a field, a softened ditch, the long parallel banks of the vallum to the south. In this western sector the wall was originally built of turf and timber before being rebuilt in stone, and centuries of farmers and builders carried off the dressed stones for barns and churches. What survives is listed as part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and once your eye tunes in, you start seeing the line everywhere.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The write-up.
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about 31 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The. Next is back through Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou. That is the ride.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou → Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps → Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The → back through Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps → Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.