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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From Hexham it runs 282 km to Hexham; allow about 4 h 32 of riding. It goes by way of Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti, Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The, Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so and Low Mire. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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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Haltonchesters Roman fort 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 32 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.
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about 62 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so.
Between Bowness-on-Solway and Drumburgh, the road follows the shore of the Solway Firth along a strip of land so flat and low that the highest tides cover it, and the line of Hadrian's Wall and its vallum runs just inland, through fields and past farms. This stretch, near Port Carlisle and Glasson, is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site. Little is visible of the Wall itself, which was robbed for stone long ago, but the vallum and other earthworks can be traced in places by those with a keen eye.
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Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so, about halfway. Next is Low Mire.
Low Mire lies in the quiet farmland behind the Cumbrian coast, near Dearham and Maryport, where the land slopes gently down to the Solway Firth and the hills of southern Scotland rise across the water. It is an area of small fields, hedges and scattered farms, with the Lake District fells visible to the south-east on clear days.
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Low Mire sits at 139 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so.
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back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so comes up about 180 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The.
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about 219 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The. 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 Haltonchesters Roman fort.
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The route ends here after 282 km.
Haltonchesters Roman fort → Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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.
Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The → Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so → Low Mire is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Low Mire → back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so → back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The → back through Seatsides 1 Roman temporary camp and secti is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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.