Why this ride
194 km from Maryport to Maryport, about 2 h 58 of riding. It goes by way of Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca, Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall & and back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Rise How tower 25a and Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall &
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 194 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 58
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Scenic road chapters
Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca → Carrawburgh Roman fort &
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 62 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 62 km
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Rise How tower 25a
Hadrian's Wall does not simply stop at the Solway. Beyond Bowness, the Romans extended their frontier down the Cumbrian coast with a chain of milefortlets and towers, watching the shore against raiders crossing from what is now south-west Scotland. Rise How tower 25a is one of them, on the low cliffs just south of Maryport near Flimby, part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site. Little is visible above ground, but standing here and looking out over the water, you can see why they bothered.
Read the complete Rise How tower 25a write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Rise How tower 25a is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca.
2. Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca
There is an old joke that Hadrian's Wall is easiest to find where it has gone. In the western suburbs of Carlisle it has, for the most part, vanished under houses, roads and fields, and what remains is a faint line of ditch and bank that only becomes obvious when you stand in the right place. The vallum, the great earthwork that ran south of the Wall, is one of those traces. It was a flat-bottomed ditch with a mound on either side, a sort of military boundary zone that kept civilians, and raiders, from the soldiers' side of the frontier. It was dug on the orders of the emperor Hadrian, who came to Britain in AD 122, and it is one of the more puzzling pieces of Roman engineering.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca comes up 62 km in. Next is Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall &.
3. Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall &
Of all the Roman sites along Hadrian's Wall, Carrawburgh may be the most mysterious. The fort itself, called Brocolitia, is largely unexcavated, a grassy platform beside the Military Road, but just below it, in a boggy hollow, stands the reconstructed outline of a small temple of Mithras, the soldiers' god, whose cult was popular among the Roman army. The temple was excavated in 1949, and its three altars, now replaced by replicas, the originals being in the Great North Museum in Newcastle, were dedicated by commanders of the garrison. Nearby, a spring dedicated to the water goddess Coventina yielded an astonishing hoard of coins, altars and offerings when it was excavated in the nineteenth century, around thirteen thousand coins in all.
Read the complete Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall & write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
123 km in you reach Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall &. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca.
4. back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca 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 vallum between Drawdykes Ca, late in the day. Next is Rise How tower 25a.
5. Rise How tower 25a
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rise How tower 25a write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Rise How tower 25a. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Rise How tower 25a to Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca
Rise How tower 25a → Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca to Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall &
Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca → Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall & is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall & to back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca
Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall & → back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca to Rise How tower 25a
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Ca → Rise How tower 25a is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.