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 357 km round trip from Wigton - roughly 5 h 09 in the saddle. On the way it passes The section of Stanegate Roman road from F, Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house and back through The section of Stanegate Roman road from F. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The tide turns the Solway Firth into an enormous, shifting plain of sand and water, and the Roman fort at Kirkbride stood at the edge of it. Here, at the western limit of the frontier in the lower Eden valley, the Romans built a fort to guard the crossing of the estuary, and the earthworks show a rectangular platform in a field by the village. The fort belonged to the Wall system, which continued along the coast, and the first thing a visitor realises is how big the view is. On a clear day you can see the Scottish hills across the water, and the ridges of Criffel and Burnswark, and the line of the shore bending away to the west.
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Kirkbride Roman fort is where the day begins. Next is The section of Stanegate Roman road from F.
Haltwhistle likes to call itself the centre of Britain, and on the road through the South Tyne valley it is easy to believe that this is where England quietly runs out of people. Just north of the town, the line of the Stanegate, the Roman road that linked Carlisle with Corbridge, crosses farmland on the flank of the valley. Little of it shows as more than a faint agger, a raised bank under the grass, but it is older than Hadrian's Wall, which runs along the crags a few kilometres to the north.
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The section of Stanegate Roman road from F comes up about 53 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house.
Walls Castle is the odd name for a Roman bath house, and the building still stands to a height of about four metres, one of the tallest Roman structures in northern England. It stood outside the fort of Glannoventa at Ravenglass, a harbour station at the meeting of three rivers, the Irt, the Mite and the Esk, and in the dry shelter of the dunes it has survived because its walls were thick and well built. You can walk around it on a short path from the village, and see niches and a doorway in the thick walls. The fort itself lies mostly under farmland and the railway.
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about 178 km into the recorded legs you reach Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house. Next is back through The section of Stanegate Roman road from F.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through The section of Stanegate Roman road from F, late in the day. Next is Kirkbride Roman fort.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kirkbride Roman fort write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Kirkbride Roman fort. That is the ride.
Kirkbride Roman fort → The section of Stanegate Roman road from F is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The section of Stanegate Roman road from F → Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house is 125 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house → back through The section of Stanegate Roman road from F is 126 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through The section of Stanegate Roman road from F → Kirkbride Roman fort is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.