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 137 km round trip from Hexham - roughly 2 h 13 in the saddle. The stops in between: Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp, Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and, Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl and back through Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and. The line favours views over speed.
A few kilometres west of Hexham the South and North Tyne have long since joined, and the valley widens into a level green floor of fields, hedges and small woods, with the Wall's ridge just visible to the north. The Red House Roman camp lies in this farmland, about five kilometres from Haydon Bridge, Acomb and Hexham, on the Roman road known as the Stanegate, which ran across the neck of Britain from Carlisle to Corbridge.
Read the complete Red House Roman camp write-up.
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Red House Roman camp is where the day begins. Next is Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp.
Haltwhistle likes to call itself the centre of Britain, and whether or not you believe the measurements, it sits at the very heart of Hadrian's Wall country. Just outside the town, on a gentle slope called Sunny Rigg, the outlines of two Roman temporary camps have been traced, rectangular enclosures with rounded corners where units on the march, or building the wall, pitched their leather tents behind a bank and a ditch for a night or a season. They are part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site, though on the ground you will see only faint lines in the grass, best appreciated from the air or in low evening light.
Read the complete Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp write-up.
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Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and.
Brampton is a small market town at the foot of the North Pennines, and just north of it, the line of Hadrian's Wall crosses the low country between the Irthing and the Eden. On this stretch, the stone wall itself has mostly vanished, robbed for building material over the centuries, but the line can still be traced in places through fields and hedgerows, along with the vallum, the great earthwork ditch the Romans dug just south of the wall. Parts of the wall in this sector were first built of turf, and only later rebuilt in stone, which is one reason why so little survives here.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and write-up.
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about 42 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl.
West of Carlisle, Hadrian's Wall heads out across flat farmland toward the Solway Firth, and the closer you get to the estuary, the quieter it becomes. Along this stretch, the wall itself has largely gone, robbed for stone over the centuries, but the vallum, the wide ditch with its mounds that ran behind it, can still be traced in places, and the line passes the sites of Roman forts and the civilian settlements that grew up around them. At Stanwix, now a suburb on the north bank of the Eden, stood the largest fort on the whole wall, home to a cavalry regiment of a thousand men. Further west, at Burgh by Sands, another fort lies beneath the village and its fortified church, built partly with Roman stone.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and sits at 98 km, about halfway. Next is back through Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp comes up about 117 km into the recorded legs. Next is Red House Roman camp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Red House Roman camp write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Red House Roman camp closes the day.
Red House Roman camp → Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and → Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl → back through Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and → back through Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp → Red House Roman camp is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.