Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The and The English Lake District
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Recorded distance
349 km
Riding-time estimate
5 h 11
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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349 km from Brampton to Brampton, about 5 h 11 of riding. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun, The English Lake District and back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun. Lakes are the scenery here.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. 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.
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Planning note
Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun.
2. Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun
Hadrian's Wall runs for about seventy-three miles across the north of England, from the Solway Firth in the west to the Tyne in the east, built on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian after his visit to Britain in 122 AD.
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Planning note
Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun comes up about 54 km into the recorded legs. Next is The English Lake District.
3. The English Lake District
Wordsworth wandered lonely as a cloud round here, and anybody who has ridden the Lake District on a wet bank holiday will understand the appeal of being lonely. The English Lake District, listed by UNESCO in 2017 as a cultural landscape, is a compact knot of mountains, lakes and valleys in Cumbria, shaped by glaciers and then by centuries of sheep farming, slate quarrying and, from the late eighteenth century, by poets, painters and tourists who came looking for the sublime.
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Planning note
Back at Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The to Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun
Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The → Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun to The English Lake District
Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun → The English Lake District is 121 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The English Lake District to back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun
The English Lake District → back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun is 121 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun to Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The
back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun → Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.