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 110 km round trip from Haltwhistle - roughly 1 h 29 in the saddle. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac, Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 5 and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac. The line favours views over speed.
Haltwhistle Burn is a small stream that cuts down toward the South Tyne just east of Haltwhistle, and the name is one of those wonderful northern English mouthfuls that seems to have been in use forever. Here, beside the burn, the Romans left a cluster of temporary camps, several overlapping enclosures that show how often armies returned to the same convenient ground. Alongside them lies a fort on the Stanegate, the military road that predates Hadrian's Wall. The camps are low earthworks in pasture, best appreciated in slanting light and with a little imagination.
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Haltwhistle Burn Roman temporary camps 2 a is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac.
Just north of Hexham, the A road climbs out of the Tyne valley and meets the Roman frontier on a high, windy shoulder of Northumberland. Here, near Acomb, Wall and the crossing of the North Tyne at Chollerford, the line of Hadrian's Wall and its vallum runs across open farmland, sometimes visible as a low bank, sometimes followed by the road itself. Like every stretch of the frontier, it belongs to the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and this middle section is where the wall starts to feel serious, heading west into the wild central crags.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 5.
Wall mile 5 is in Newcastle, which means that the Roman frontier is under a bus route. The Wall began at Wallsend and ran west, and the antiquarians who surveyed it numbered every Roman mile from there, so mile five falls in Benwell, a hillside district of terraces above the Tyne. Here the old line is now more or less the West Road, a main road into the city, and a short way off the road you can find real Roman stone. A tiny temple dedicated to a local British god called Antenociticus stands in a small garden between modern houses, with its three altars copied in place, and the remains of the Vallum, the broad ditch south of the Wall, crosses a causeway nearby. The fort of Condercum stood on the hill above, with a fine view east down the river.
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about 55 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 5. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac, late in the day. Next is Haltwhistle Burn Roman temporary camps 2 a.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Haltwhistle Burn Roman temporary camps 2 a write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Haltwhistle Burn Roman temporary camps 2 a. That is the ride.
Haltwhistle Burn Roman temporary camps 2 a → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac → Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 5 is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 5 → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac → Haltwhistle Burn Roman temporary camps 2 a is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.