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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230 km from Maryport to Maryport, about 3 h 21 of riding. On the way it passes The vallum between the field boundary sout, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac and back through The vallum between the field boundary sout. 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 The vallum between the field boundary sout.
Not every stretch of Hadrian's Wall is the dramatic crag-top masonry of the postcards, and this is one of the quieter parts: a section of the vallum, the great ditch-and-mound earthwork the Romans dug behind the wall, running across farmland near Brampton in Cumbria. The stone wall here was largely robbed out long ago for farms and churches, so what survives is often a long, soft hollow in the grass, a line you only notice once someone points it out, and then can't stop seeing.
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The vallum between the field boundary sout comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac.
Just north of Hexham, the A road climbs out of the Tyne valley and meets the Roman frontier on a high, windy shoulder of Northumberland. Here, near Acomb, Wall and the crossing of the North Tyne at Chollerford, the line of Hadrian's Wall and its vallum runs across open farmland, sometimes visible as a low bank, sometimes followed by the road itself. Like every stretch of the frontier, it belongs to the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and this middle section is where the wall starts to feel serious, heading west into the wild central crags.
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about 115 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac. Next is back through The vallum between the field boundary sout.
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back through The vallum between the field boundary sout, late in the day. Next is Mawbray Sandpit tower 16b.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mawbray Sandpit tower 16b write-up.
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Back at Mawbray Sandpit tower 16b. That is the ride.
Mawbray Sandpit tower 16b → The vallum between the field boundary sout is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The vallum between the field boundary sout → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac → back through The vallum between the field boundary sout is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The vallum between the field boundary sout → Mawbray Sandpit tower 16b is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.