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 Haltwhistle it runs 61 km to Haltwhistle; allow about 50 min of riding. The stops in between: Coesike West Roman temporary camps 1 and 2, Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun and back through Coesike West Roman temporary camps 1 and 2. The line favours views over speed.
Haltwhistle likes to call itself the centre of Britain, a claim measured with some creativity, and it is certainly the middle of Hadrian's Wall country, a small market town on the South Tyne where the river valley narrows between the Pennines and the Wall crags. Lees Hall Roman camp is one of the temporary camps the army threw up while building the Wall or on campaign, a rectangle of bank and ditch now softened by grass. These marching camps were quick, practical affairs, ploughed flat in many places, and what survives is mostly a faint earthwork seen best in low evening light.
Read the complete Lees Hall Roman camp write-up.
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Lees Hall Roman camp is where the day begins. Next is Coesike West Roman temporary camps 1 and 2.
Roman marching camps look like nothing, and yet they tell you almost everything about how the legions worked. At the end of each day's march, the soldiers dug a ditch, threw up a rampart of turf and put up their leather tents inside, in a regular plan. The camps at Coesike West, two of them side by side, were built on the moorland north of Hadrian's Wall, and they probably date from the period of campaigns in the north, before or around the time the frontier was fixed. They are only low banks and ditches now, but from the air or in low light the outline is clear.
Read the complete Coesike West Roman temporary camps 1 and 2 write-up.
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Coesike West Roman temporary camps 1 and 2 comes up about 13 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun.
Hadrian's Wall runs for about seventy-three miles across the north of England, from the Solway Firth in the west to the Tyne in the east, built on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian after his visit to Britain in 122 AD.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun write-up.
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about 27 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun. Next is back through Coesike West Roman temporary camps 1 and 2.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Coesike West Roman temporary camps 1 and 2 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Coesike West Roman temporary camps 1 and 2, late in the day. Next is Lees Hall Roman camp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lees Hall Roman camp write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Lees Hall Roman camp. That is the ride.
Lees Hall Roman camp → Coesike West Roman temporary camps 1 and 2 is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Coesike West Roman temporary camps 1 and 2 → Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun → back through Coesike West Roman temporary camps 1 and 2 is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Coesike West Roman temporary camps 1 and 2 → Lees Hall Roman camp is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.