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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140 km from Haydon Bridge to Haydon Bridge, about 2 h 15 of riding. The stops in between: Crooks Roman temporary camp, Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps, Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be and back through Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 27 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Hadrian's Wall in its central section does what a good border should: it picks the best ridge in the country and sits on top of it. The wall was begun in AD 122, under the emperor Hadrian, and it runs for about eighty Roman miles, roughly 117 kilometres, from the Tyne to the Solway. In the middle stretch, between Haydon Bridge and Haltwhistle, it follows a line of crags called the Whin Sill, a hard, dark volcanic rock that breaks the Northumbrian moors into a series of cliffs, so that the wall looks as if it grew out of the stone.
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Roman camp is where the day begins. Next is Crooks Roman temporary camp.
The Roman army on the march built a camp every night: a rectangle of ditch and rampart, with tents inside, defended by sentries. These temporary camps, often used only once or for a short campaign, left faint traces in the landscape, and many have been found from the air in the north of England. Crooks, near Haltwhistle and Greenhead, in the area where Northumberland meets Cumbria, is one of several temporary camps along the line of Hadrian's Wall, probably used by the soldiers who built the Wall in the second century.
Read the complete Crooks Roman temporary camp write-up.
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Crooks Roman temporary camp comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. Next is Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps.
Don't expect walls. The two Roman temporary camps at Moss Side are the sort of monument you mostly have to imagine: a pair of rectangles traced in the fields east of Carlisle, known from cropmarks and low earthworks rather than anything that rises above the grass. What you are looking at is a farmed slope of the lower Eden country, hedges and pasture, with Scotby and Wetheral a few kilometres off and the city of Carlisle seven kilometres to the west. The point of stopping is to stand where a Roman army once dug in for the night and to let the landscape do the explaining.
Read the complete Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps write-up.
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about 43 km into the recorded legs you reach Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps. Next is Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be.
The small Roman fort at Drumburgh sat on a low rise above the Solway marshes, guarding a stretch of Hadrian's Wall where the frontier ran along the edge of the firth towards its western end at Bowness. Nothing much survives of the fort itself, but its stones did not go far. Drumburgh Castle, a fortified farmhouse built in the sixteenth century by the Dacre family, is clearly made from reused Roman masonry, and you can still pick out dressed blocks and even the odd carved fragment set into its walls.
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Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be, about halfway. Next is back through Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps.
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Read the complete Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps write-up.
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back through Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps sits at 102 km, about halfway. Next is back through Crooks Roman temporary camp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Crooks Roman temporary camp write-up.
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back through Crooks Roman temporary camp comes up about 120 km into the recorded legs. Next is Roman camp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roman camp write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Roman camp closes the day.
Roman camp → Crooks Roman temporary camp is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Crooks Roman temporary camp → Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps → Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be → back through Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps → back through Crooks Roman temporary camp is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Crooks Roman temporary camp → Roman camp is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.