CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Benwell it runs 225 km to Benwell; allow about 3 h 01 of riding. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun, Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp, The Stangate at Crosby Lodge and Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
If the Wall was the barrier you could see, the vallum was the barrier you were not supposed to cross. This is a great flat-bottomed ditch, about six metres wide, with mounds of earth on either side, and it ran along the south of the Wall for most of its length, forming a kind of military zone behind the frontier. Nobody is quite sure of its purpose, though the usual theory is that it marked the rear boundary of the area and controlled the movement of people and goods. At Benwell, within Newcastle, the vallum has one of its best-known features, a stone causeway that allowed the road to cross the ditch near the fort gate, a neat piece of Roman engineering that came to light in the twentieth century.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum in wall mile 6 write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall vallum in wall mile 6 is where the day begins. Next is 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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Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun comes up 35 km in. Next is Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp.
Haltwhistle likes to call itself the centre of Britain, and whether or not you believe the measurements, it sits at the very heart of Hadrian's Wall country. Just outside the town, on a gentle slope called Sunny Rigg, the outlines of two Roman temporary camps have been traced, rectangular enclosures with rounded corners where units on the march, or building the wall, pitched their leather tents behind a bank and a ditch for a night or a season. They are part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site, though on the ground you will see only faint lines in the grass, best appreciated from the air or in low evening light.
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69 km in you reach Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp. Next is The Stangate at Crosby Lodge.
Before there was a Wall, there was a road. The Stanegate, a Roman route running east to west between the Tyne at Corbridge and the Eden at Carlisle, was the first frontier line in northern Britain, guarded by a string of forts decades before Hadrian ordered his great barrier built a little to the north. Near Crosby-on-Eden, a few miles east of Carlisle, the line of the old road passes through gentle farmland on the north bank of the Eden, and while there is little to see of the road itself, the landscape tells the story of how the Romans picked their way across this narrow neck of the country.
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The Stangate at Crosby Lodge, about halfway. Next is Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp.
Sunny Rigg is a name that sounds like a farm, and that is more or less what it is, a stretch of rough pasture on the high ground just north of Haltwhistle, in Northumberland, where archaeologists have found the faint outline of a Roman temporary camp. These camps were built by marching armies at the end of each day's journey, with a ditch and a rampart thrown up around the tents to protect them overnight, and they were abandoned the next morning. Most survive only as shallow earthworks or crop marks seen from the air, which is why the places are so evocative: they record a single night of an army's life on the march, two thousand years ago.
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Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp sits at 138 km, about halfway. Next is back through The Stangate at Crosby Lodge.
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back through The Stangate at Crosby Lodge comes up 173 km in. Next is back through Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp.
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207 km in you reach back through Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun.
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back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum in wall mile 6.
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The route ends here after 225 km.
Hadrian's Wall vallum in wall mile 6 → Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun → Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp → The Stangate at Crosby Lodge is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Stangate at Crosby Lodge → Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp → back through The Stangate at Crosby Lodge is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Stangate at Crosby Lodge → back through Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp → back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun → Hadrian's Wall vallum in wall mile 6 is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.