Why this ride
From Carlisle it runs 59 km to Carlisle; allow about 1 h 02 of riding. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel, Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps and Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 59 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 02
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
Don't expect walls. The two Roman temporary camps at Moss Side are the sort of monument you mostly have to imagine: a pair of rectangles traced in the fields east of Carlisle, known from cropmarks and low earthworks rather than anything that rises above the grass. What you are looking at is a farmed slope of the lower Eden country, hedges and pasture, with Scotby and Wetheral a few kilometres off and the city of Carlisle seven kilometres to the west. The point of stopping is to stand where a Roman army once dug in for the night and to let the landscape do the explaining.
Read the complete Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
2. 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.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel comes up about 15 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp.
3. Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp
Sunny Rigg is a name that sounds like a farm, and that is more or less what it is, a stretch of rough pasture on the high ground just north of Haltwhistle, in Northumberland, where archaeologists have found the faint outline of a Roman temporary camp. These camps were built by marching armies at the end of each day's journey, with a ditch and a rampart thrown up around the tents to protect them overnight, and they were abandoned the next morning. Most survive only as shallow earthworks or crop marks seen from the air, which is why the places are so evocative: they record a single night of an army's life on the march, two thousand years ago.
Read the complete Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 30 km into the recorded legs you reach Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
4. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel, late in the day. Next is Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps.
5. Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps to Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel
Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel to Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp to back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel
Sunny Rigg 3 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 to Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.