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 228 km to Haltwhistle; allow about 3 h 37 of riding. On the way it passes Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be, Parton Roman fort and back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 61 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
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 Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be.
The small Roman fort at Drumburgh sat on a low rise above the Solway marshes, guarding a stretch of Hadrian's Wall where the frontier ran along the edge of the firth towards its western end at Bowness. Nothing much survives of the fort itself, but its stones did not go far. Drumburgh Castle, a fortified farmhouse built in the sixteenth century by the Dacre family, is clearly made from reused Roman masonry, and you can still pick out dressed blocks and even the odd carved fragment set into its walls.
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Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be comes up about 54 km into the recorded legs. Next is Parton Roman fort.
Hadrian's Wall stopped at Bowness-on-Solway, but the Roman frontier did not. Down the Cumbrian coast, the army built a chain of forts, milefortlets and towers to watch the sea and stop raiders slipping round the end of the Wall, and Parton, just north of Whitehaven, was one of them. The fort is known from excavations and records rather than standing remains, and the coastal defences as a whole are included in the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Standing on the cliffs above the sea, you can see why the Romans worried: across the water lie the Isle of Man and, on clear days, the hills of Scotland.
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about 114 km into the recorded legs you reach Parton Roman fort. Next is back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be.
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back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be, late in the day. Next is Markham Cottage Roman temporary camps 1 an.
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Back at Markham Cottage Roman temporary camps 1 an. That is the ride.
Markham Cottage Roman temporary camps 1 an → Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be → Parton Roman fort is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parton Roman fort → back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be → Markham Cottage Roman temporary camps 1 an is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.