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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249 km from Brampton to Brampton, about 3 h 46 of riding. The stops in between: Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti, Haltonchesters Roman fort, The vallum between the road to Steel Rigg and Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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.
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Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The is where the day begins. Next is Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti.
Haltwhistle likes to call itself the centre of Britain, a claim based on being halfway between the north and south coasts of the island, and while other towns dispute it, nobody disputes that it is the best base for exploring the central section of Hadrian's Wall. Just north of the town, on the rough ground below the crags, Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp is one of several marching camps where Roman troops on the move dug defences for a night or longer, and the label includes a section of the vallum nearby. It is all part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
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Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Haltonchesters Roman fort.
Where Dere Street, the great Roman road north from York, met Hadrian's Wall, the Romans built a gateway, and a mile or so west of it they placed the fort of Haltonchesters, known to them as Onnum. Today the site is a grassy field on the edge of the Military Road above the Tyne valley, with little to see beyond the faint outline of ramparts. But the setting is the thing: rolling Northumberland farmland, stone walls, the Tyne below, and on a clear day views far to the north and south.
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about 62 km into the recorded legs you reach Haltonchesters Roman fort. Next is The vallum between the road to Steel Rigg.
Steel Rigg is the place everyone photographs. The crag rises steeply from the road, with the Wall running along its top and dipping into a gap known as Sycamore Gap, where a single tree stood for generations in a perfect V of the hills, until it was felled one night in September 2023. The loss caused shock across the country, and the stump now sprouts new shoots. The vallum, the great ditch and mounds south of the Wall, runs beside the road at the foot of the crags, and here it is clearly visible, a long straight hollow in the field, with the mounds standing on either side.
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The vallum between the road to Steel Rigg, about halfway. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra.
Just east of the point where the A68 crosses the line of Hadrian's Wall, at Portgate, the Romans had a gateway through the frontier for Dere Street, the great road running north from York into Scotland. Today the A68 follows much the same course, and the wall and its vallum run east and west across the fields here, sometimes visible as a bank or a ditch, sometimes buried under the Military Road. A little to the east, the fort of Halton Chesters, known to the Romans as Onnum, lies under the fields, and like the rest of the frontier, this stretch is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra sits at 140 km, about halfway. Next is back through The vallum between the road to Steel Rigg.
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back through The vallum between the road to Steel Rigg comes up about 153 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Haltonchesters Roman fort.
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about 187 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Haltonchesters Roman fort. Next is back through Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti.
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back through Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The.
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The route ends here after 249 km.
Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The → Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti → Haltonchesters Roman fort is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Haltonchesters Roman fort → The vallum between the road to Steel Rigg is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The vallum between the road to Steel Rigg → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra → back through The vallum between the road to Steel Rigg is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The vallum between the road to Steel Rigg → back through Haltonchesters Roman fort is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Haltonchesters Roman fort → back through Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti → Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.