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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129 km from Haltwhistle to Haltwhistle, about 2 h 21 of riding. It goes by way of Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel, Watchclose Roman temporary camp, Nowtler Hill 2 Roman temporary camp and Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail.
Long before the wall existed, the Romans ran a road across the narrow neck of northern England, the Stanegate, linking the forts of Corbridge on the Tyne and Carlisle on the Eden. It was built around AD 80, in the time of the general Agricola, and it served as the frontier line for a generation before Hadrian ordered the wall to be built a little to the north. Forts and fortlets sat along it, among them Vindolanda and the small post at Haltwhistle Burn, and temporary camps like the one at Milestone House show where troops stopped on the move.
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Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
West of Birdoswald the Wall changes character. The central crags fall behind, the River Irthing loops through its gorge below, and the frontier runs across gentler farmland towards Banks and Hare Hill, where one of the tallest surviving fragments of the Wall still stands, patched by later hands. Here too the vallum, the great earthwork south of the Wall, can be traced across the fields, and the remains of turrets at Banks East and Pike Hill sit right beside the road. It is a quieter stretch than the famous sections further east, and all the better for it.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel comes up about 14 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchclose Roman temporary camp.
East of Carlisle, between the villages of Brampton and Wetheral, the countryside rolls gently towards the Pennines, with green fields, hedges and patches of woodland. Somewhere in these fields lie the faint traces of Watchclose, a Roman temporary camp, one of many marching camps built by soldiers on campaign or during the construction of Hadrian's Wall. These camps were enclosed by a ditch and bank and used for a night or a season, and today they are often visible only from the air or as slight undulations in the grass. Watchclose is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
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about 29 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchclose Roman temporary camp. Next is Nowtler Hill 2 Roman temporary camp.
Not every Roman monument is made of stone. North of Carlisle, on low ground close to the Solway plain, the traces of a Roman temporary camp show up mainly as marks in the ground and in crops: a square or rectangle of ditch and bank, with rounded corners, where an army spent a night or two under leather tents. Nowtler Hill was one of those places. Marching armies built such camps every evening, digging the ditch and piling the earth into a rampart topped with stakes, so that even a short halt was protected.
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Nowtler Hill 2 Roman temporary camp, about halfway. Next is Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail.
The Solway Firth narrows at Bowness-on-Solway, a small village of whitewashed cottages on a low headland, and this is where Hadrian's Wall ended, or rather began, at its western end.
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Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail sits at 68 km, about halfway. Next is back through Nowtler Hill 2 Roman temporary camp.
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Read the complete Nowtler Hill 2 Roman temporary camp write-up.
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back through Nowtler Hill 2 Roman temporary camp comes up about 83 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Watchclose Roman temporary camp.
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Read the complete Watchclose Roman temporary camp write-up.
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about 100 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Watchclose Roman temporary camp. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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, late in the day. Next is Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s write-up.
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The route ends here after 129 km.
Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Watchclose Roman temporary camp is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchclose Roman temporary camp → Nowtler Hill 2 Roman temporary camp is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nowtler Hill 2 Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail → back through Nowtler Hill 2 Roman temporary camp is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Nowtler Hill 2 Roman temporary camp → back through Watchclose Roman temporary camp is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchclose Roman temporary camp → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Milestone House Roman temporary camp and s is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.