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 162 km round trip from Greenhead - roughly 2 h 58 in the saddle. It goes by way of The vallum between the road to Laversdale, Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be, Wolsty North tower 13a and back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 29 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
If you only have time for one stretch of Hadrian's Wall, make it the central section between Haltwhistle and Housesteads. Here the Wall runs along the top of the Whin Sill, a long ridge of hard volcanic rock that forms a natural cliff facing north, and the stone curtain rides the crests like a rollercoaster, dipping into gaps and climbing again. Built from AD 122 on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian, it stretched about seventy-three miles from coast to coast, with milecastles, turrets and forts along its length. The UNESCO listing covers it as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
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Hadrian's Wall is where the day begins. Next is The vallum between the road to Laversdale.
When the Romans abandoned their Wall, local builders found it a splendid quarry. Lanercost Priory, a few kilometres east of Brampton, was begun in the twelfth century by Augustinian canons, and its red sandstone includes dressed stones that were once part of the Wall and its forts, still marked with the tool lines of Roman masons. Naworth Castle, close by, was built from the same stone. In that sense, the Wall never really went away: it turned into churches, castles and farm walls across the north of England.
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The vallum between the road to Laversdale comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be.
The small Roman fort at Drumburgh sat on a low rise above the Solway marshes, guarding a stretch of Hadrian's Wall where the frontier ran along the edge of the firth towards its western end at Bowness. Nothing much survives of the fort itself, but its stones did not go far. Drumburgh Castle, a fortified farmhouse built in the sixteenth century by the Dacre family, is clearly made from reused Roman masonry, and you can still pick out dressed blocks and even the odd carved fragment set into its walls.
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about 54 km into the recorded legs you reach Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be. Next is Wolsty North tower 13a.
Silloth is a small Victorian town on the Solway coast of Cumbria, built in the nineteenth century as a port and a seaside resort, with wide cobbled streets, a green along the seafront and views across the Solway Firth to the hills of Scotland. Just south of the town, at Wolsty, the Romans built a tower as part of the defences that extended Hadrian's Wall down the Cumbrian coast. Tower 13a was one of a chain of small towers and milefortlets, spaced along the shore to watch for raiders crossing the firth from the north.
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Wolsty North tower 13a, about halfway. Next is back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be.
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back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be sits at 104 km, about halfway. Next is back through The vallum between the road to Laversdale.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through The vallum between the road to Laversdale comes up about 137 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Hadrian's Wall closes the day.
Hadrian's Wall → The vallum between the road to Laversdale is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The vallum between the road to Laversdale → Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be → Wolsty North tower 13a is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wolsty North tower 13a → back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be → back through The vallum between the road to Laversdale is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The vallum between the road to Laversdale → Hadrian's Wall is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.