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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A 66 km round trip from Brampton - roughly 1 h 03 in the saddle. The stops in between: Haltwhistle Burn 4 Roman temporary camp, Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp and back through Haltwhistle Burn 4 Roman temporary camp. The line favours views over speed.
Before Hadrian built his wall, the Romans controlled northern Britain with a line of forts along a road called the Stanegate, which ran from Corbridge to Carlisle, and Nether Denton was one of them. The fort, on a hill above the River Irthing near Gilsland, is now marked only by faint earthworks around the small church of Nether Denton, which stands on the site. It is a quiet place, with only rooks and sheep for company.
Read the complete Nether Denton Roman fort write-up.
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Nether Denton Roman fort is where the day begins. Next is Haltwhistle Burn 4 Roman temporary camp.
The Haltwhistle Burn runs south from the line of the Wall through a wooded gully, past the site of a small Roman fort on the Stanegate, the older frontier road. This label points to one of several temporary camps near it, the overnight earthworks of Roman armies on the move. Like others in the area, it shows as a low rectangle, visible in dry summers and under low light, and not much more. The Burn itself is more rewarding, a clear stream tumbling over stones between hazel and alder, and the walk beside it takes you to a quiet corner of the valley where the sound of traffic fades.
Read the complete Haltwhistle Burn 4 Roman temporary camp write-up.
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Haltwhistle Burn 4 Roman temporary camp comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. Next is Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp.
Look for a faint rectangle in the rough grass north of the Military Road, a few kilometres west of Chollerford, and you will have found Brown Dikes, one of a cluster of Roman temporary camps on the high ground above the North Tyne. Nothing stands here, no walls or gates, only low earthworks that the grazing sheep have softened over nearly two thousand years. But these camps are among the most evocative traces of the Roman army in Britain, because they mark where soldiers actually slept and worked while the frontier was being built and garrisoned.
Read the complete Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp write-up.
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about 33 km into the recorded legs you reach Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp. Next is back through Haltwhistle Burn 4 Roman temporary camp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Haltwhistle Burn 4 Roman temporary camp write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Haltwhistle Burn 4 Roman temporary camp, late in the day. Next is Nether Denton Roman fort.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Nether Denton Roman fort write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Nether Denton Roman fort. That is the ride.
Nether Denton Roman fort → Haltwhistle Burn 4 Roman temporary camp is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Haltwhistle Burn 4 Roman temporary camp → Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp → back through Haltwhistle Burn 4 Roman temporary camp is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Haltwhistle Burn 4 Roman temporary camp → Nether Denton Roman fort is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.