CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Brampton it runs 166 km to Brampton; allow about 2 h 45 of riding. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor, Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so, Wolsty South tower 13b and back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
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Nether Denton Roman fort is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor.
On the eastern edge of Carlisle, where the M6 motorway sweeps north towards Scotland, the line of Hadrian's Wall crosses the fields and housing estates in a way that is barely visible. Yet the vallum, the great ditch the Romans dug south of the Wall, can still be traced here as a slight dip in the ground, and this stretch between the motorway and the outskirts of the city is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site. It takes some imagination, but standing here you are on the line that marked the edge of the empire for nearly three hundred years.
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Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so.
Between Bowness-on-Solway and Drumburgh, the road follows the shore of the Solway Firth along a strip of land so flat and low that the highest tides cover it, and the line of Hadrian's Wall and its vallum runs just inland, through fields and past farms. This stretch, near Port Carlisle and Glasson, is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site. Little is visible of the Wall itself, which was robbed for stone long ago, but the vallum and other earthworks can be traced in places by those with a keen eye.
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about 53 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so. Next is Wolsty South tower 13b.
Hadrian's Wall gets the fame, but the Roman frontier did not simply stop at Bowness-on-Solway. Beyond the end of the wall, a chain of milefortlets and towers continued down the Cumbrian coast, watching the Solway Firth for raiders from the north. Wolsty South, tower 13b, was one of them, a small stone watchtower near Silloth on the low, windy coast. There is little to see today, often just a mark in the ground, but the site is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listed by UNESCO, and its position tells a story: from here, Roman soldiers looked across the water to the hills of Scotland.
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Wolsty South tower 13b, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so.
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Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so sits at 99 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor comes up about 143 km into the recorded legs. Next is Nether Denton Roman fort.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Nether Denton Roman fort write-up.
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Nether Denton Roman fort closes the day.
Nether Denton Roman fort → Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor → Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so → Wolsty South tower 13b is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wolsty South tower 13b → back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so → back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor → Nether Denton Roman fort is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.