CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 146 km round trip from Annan - roughly 2 h 14 in the saddle. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f, Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi, Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp and back through Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi. The line favours views over speed.
Bowness-on-Solway is the western end of Hadrian's Wall, a quiet village on a low headland above the estuary, and Herd Hill lies a little farther along the shore on the Cardurnock peninsula. Roman engineers built the wall to Bowness, where the fort of Maia stood, and then continued the defences south along the Cumbrian coast with milefortlets and towers. The northern watchtower on this hill was one of the chain that watched across the water to Scotland, at a place where the Solway is narrow enough to be forded at low tide.
Read the complete Herd Hill North write-up.
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Herd Hill North is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f.
West of Carlisle the Eden slows and starts to meander, swinging in wide loops through flat meadows on its way to the Solway, and here at Grinsdale Hadrian's Wall ran along the high ground above the river. It is a gentle, almost secret stretch of countryside, only a few miles from the city but feeling much further. The tiny hamlet of Grinsdale has a church dedicated to St Kentigern, an early saint associated with this region, and a scatter of farms. The Wall has gone, robbed for building stone centuries ago, but the line it followed is clear in the field boundaries and the lie of the land.
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Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi.
The Emperor Hadrian visited Britain in AD 122 and ordered a wall built from coast to coast, and the soldiers who did the work left their marks in stone that still stands across the north of England. The section near Brampton, in Cumbria, lies toward the western end of the Wall, where it crossed gentler country toward Carlisle and the Solway Firth. Here the Wall was first built partly in turf and later rebuilt in stone, and the remains of turrets, milecastles and the ditch can still be traced in the fields. Hadrian's Wall is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi write-up.
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about 49 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi. Next is Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp.
Haltwhistle likes to call itself the centre of Britain, a claim measured, by one method or another, from the farthest tips of the island, and it does sit in the narrow waist of the country, between the North Sea and the Irish Sea. The town, with about four thousand people, lies in the South Tyne valley, just south of Hadrian's Wall, and it is a good base for exploring the central section of the frontier.
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Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi sits at 99 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f comes up about 121 km into the recorded legs. Next is Herd Hill North.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Herd Hill North write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Herd Hill North closes the day.
Herd Hill North → Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f → Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi → Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp → back through Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi → back through Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the f → Herd Hill North is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.