CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 211 km round trip from Maryport - roughly 3 h 25 in the saddle. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall vallum between West End, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel, back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel and back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between West End. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
When people talk about Hadrian's Wall they usually mean the stone barrier across the neck of England, but the system continued down the Cumbrian coast for dozens of kilometres, as a chain of small forts, called milefortlets, and watchtowers facing the Irish Sea. Tower 16b, at Mawbray, was one of those lookouts, standing on the low, windswept coast between Silloth and Maryport. The Romans feared raids by sea, and a line of towers gave warning along the coast, with signals passing from one to the next.
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Mawbray Sandpit tower 16b is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between West End.
Out on the Solway plain the land flattens, the sky gets enormous, and the sea is never far off even when you cannot see it. The stretch of the vallum near West End lies between Carlisle and the village of Burgh by Sands, on the last run of Hadrian's Wall towards its western end at Bowness-on-Solway. Here the Roman frontier ran along the edge of the marshes and the estuary, where the tide sweeps in across vast sands and salt marsh. Nothing of the Wall stands above ground in this section, but the line is clear on the map, and the country around has a strange, quiet beauty.
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Hadrian's Wall vallum between West End comes up about 41 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
East of Carlisle, near the market town of Brampton, Hadrian's Wall crosses a landscape of rolling farmland, hedges and woods along the valley of the River Irthing. Here the wall and its vallum, the great earthwork ditch that ran behind it on the southern side, cross fields where the stone has mostly been robbed for farm buildings, but the earthworks remain clearly visible as long ridges and hollows in the grass.
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about 75 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel. 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, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
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Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel sits at 143 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between West End.
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Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum between West End write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between West End comes up about 170 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mawbray Sandpit tower 16b.
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Read the complete Mawbray Sandpit tower 16b write-up.
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Mawbray Sandpit tower 16b closes the day.
Mawbray Sandpit tower 16b → Hadrian's Wall vallum between West End is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between West End → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 34 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 and vallum between the fiel is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between West End is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between West End → Mawbray Sandpit tower 16b is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.