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 Greenhead it runs 365 km to Greenhead; allow about 5 h 27 of riding. It goes by way of Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630, The English Lake District and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630. It strings together lakeside roads.
Where Cumbria meets Northumberland in the valley of the river Irthing, the Wall climbs out of a wooded gorge on to open ground, and a Roman road called the Maiden Way ran north from the Wall towards Bewcastle and south towards Kirkby Thore, linking the frontier to the supply routes of the interior.
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Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m S is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630.
Out at the eastern end of the frontier, the Wall leaves the moors behind and runs through gentle farmland toward Newcastle, and most of what survives here is not stone but earth: the vallum, a broad ditch flanked by banks that the Romans dug just south of the Wall along almost its entire length. Between the Tyne and the Military Road, near Heddon-on-the-Wall and Rudchester, the vallum can be traced in the fields as a long hollow, and the Wall itself lies largely under the road or as low courses in the grass. Its purpose is still debated, but most scholars see it as a boundary marking the military zone, controlling who could approach the Wall.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630 comes up about 54 km into the recorded legs. Next is The English Lake District.
Wordsworth wandered lonely as a cloud round here, and anybody who has ridden the Lake District on a wet bank holiday will understand the appeal of being lonely. The English Lake District, listed by UNESCO in 2017 as a cultural landscape, is a compact knot of mountains, lakes and valleys in Cumbria, shaped by glaciers and then by centuries of sheep farming, slate quarrying and, from the late eighteenth century, by poets, painters and tourists who came looking for the sublime.
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about 183 km into the recorded legs you reach The English Lake District. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630.
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Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630, late in the day. Next is Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m S.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m S write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m S. That is the ride.
Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m S → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630 is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630 → The English Lake District is 129 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The English Lake District → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630 is 129 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630 → Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m S is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.