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 155 km round trip from Haltwhistle - roughly 2 h 30 in the saddle. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi, Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl, Pasture House and back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Romans were obsessed with water, and even on this bleak ridge they went to extraordinary trouble to bring it to their fort. The fort of Great Chesters, called Aesica in Roman times, stood on a crag high above the Haltwhistle Burn, with no spring close enough to supply a garrison of several hundred men and their animals. So the engineers built an aqueduct, an open channel that ran for about eight kilometres, following the contours of the land from a stream to the west, and delivered a steady flow into the fort. It was no great arched structure with spans of stone, but a simple ditch, and its beauty lies in the precision of the gradient. You can still trace the channel as a shallow line in the grass.
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Roman aqueduct to Great Chesters from the is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi.
The Emperor Hadrian visited Britain in AD 122 and ordered a wall built from coast to coast, and the soldiers who did the work left their marks in stone that still stands across the north of England. The section near Brampton, in Cumbria, lies toward the western end of the Wall, where it crossed gentler country toward Carlisle and the Solway Firth. Here the Wall was first built partly in turf and later rebuilt in stone, and the remains of turrets, milecastles and the ditch can still be traced in the fields. Hadrian's Wall is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
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Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 50 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl. Next is Pasture House.
The Solway Firth is one of Britain's great tidal estuaries, wide, shallow and quick. At low water, a vast expanse of sand and mud opens, and when the tide returns, it advances across the flats with astonishing speed. Pasture House lies on the English shore, on the Cardurnock peninsula, with the Scottish town of Annan visible across the water about six kilometres to the north. The Romans extended Hadrian's Wall defences down this coast, and Swarthy Hill milefortlet 21, on a neighbouring ride, is one of a chain of small forts that guarded against crossings.
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Pasture House, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl.
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back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl sits at 98 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi.
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back through Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi comes up about 127 km into the recorded legs. Next is Roman aqueduct to Great Chesters from the.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roman aqueduct to Great Chesters from the write-up.
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Roman aqueduct to Great Chesters from the closes the day.
Roman aqueduct to Great Chesters from the → Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi → Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl → Pasture House is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pasture House → back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantl → back through Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthsi → Roman aqueduct to Great Chesters from the is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.