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: Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel, Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Haltwhistle likes to call itself the centre of Britain, a claim measured with some creativity, and the town of nearly four thousand people is a good base for the middle section of Hadrian's Wall, where the frontier runs along the crags of the Whin Sill. The temporary camps in this label are Roman marching camps, the overnight enclosures that an army threw up with a ditch and a rampart each time it halted, and several are scattered across the fields south of the Wall. Almost all of them show only as faint rectangles in grass when the low sun catches them, and the ones near Markham Cottage fall in that category, so do not expect masonry or signs. What you get is a rare sense of how many soldiers once moved through this valley.
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Markham Cottage Roman temporary camps 1 an is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
Here the Wall is at its most dramatic. In the central sector of Hadrian's Wall, north of Haydon Bridge and Hexham in Northumberland, the Roman frontier runs along the top of the Whin Sill, a long ridge of hard volcanic rock that breaks the moorland into a series of north-facing cliffs. The Romans built their wall right along the crest, using the natural defences, and the result is a line of stone that rises and falls with the crags like the spine of a great animal. Behind it, to the south, runs the vallum, a broad earthwork ditch with mounds on either side that marked the military zone, still clearly visible across the fields.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel 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.
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about 27 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel, late in the day. Next is Markham Cottage Roman temporary camps 1 an.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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Back at Markham Cottage Roman temporary camps 1 an. That is the ride.
Markham Cottage Roman temporary camps 1 an → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → 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 Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Markham Cottage Roman temporary camps 1 an is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.