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 206 km round trip from Silloth - roughly 3 h 21 in the saddle. It goes by way of Hadrian's Wall between Fulwood House at Bu, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel, back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel and back through Hadrian's Wall between Fulwood House at Bu. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 34 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
The Roman frontier did not stop where Hadrian's Wall ended. At Bowness, on the Solway shore, the stone and turf barrier gave out, but a chain of small forts, fortlets and watchtowers continued south along the Cumbrian coast, past Silloth and Maryport to near St Bees, to guard against raiders coming across the water from Scotland and the Irish Sea. Archaeologists still argue about how it worked. Often only a faint platform in a field remains.
Read the complete Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle Fields write-up.
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Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle Fields is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall between Fulwood House at Bu.
Drumburgh is a few farms and a ruined-looking castle at the edge of the Solway marsh, and it is easy to miss, but it sits on the line of Hadrian's Wall where it slides down to the shore at Bowness. The castle was built from the stones of a Roman fort, called Congavata, and that gives a picture of how much of the frontier went into later buildings. The label places us on a stretch of Wall between Fulwood House and the next landmark, with Parton Roman fort on the far side of Cumbria, a reminder that Hadrian's frontier carried on around the coast.
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Hadrian's Wall between Fulwood House at Bu comes up about 38 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
East of Carlisle, near the market town of Brampton, Hadrian's Wall crosses a landscape of rolling farmland, hedges and woods along the valley of the River Irthing. Here the wall and its vallum, the great earthwork ditch that ran behind it on the southern side, cross fields where the stone has mostly been robbed for farm buildings, but the earthworks remain clearly visible as long ridges and hollows in the grass.
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about 72 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
Here the Wall is at its most dramatic. In the central sector of Hadrian's Wall, north of Haydon Bridge and Hexham in Northumberland, the Roman frontier runs along the top of the Whin Sill, a long ridge of hard volcanic rock that breaks the moorland into a series of north-facing cliffs. The Romans built their wall right along the crest, using the natural defences, and the result is a line of stone that rises and falls with the crags like the spine of a great animal. Behind it, to the south, runs the vallum, a broad earthwork ditch with mounds on either side that marked the military zone, still clearly visible across the fields.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
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Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel sits at 139 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between Fulwood House at Bu.
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Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between Fulwood House at Bu write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall between Fulwood House at Bu comes up about 167 km into the recorded legs. Next is Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle Fields.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle Fields write-up.
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Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle Fields closes the day.
Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle Fields → Hadrian's Wall between Fulwood House at Bu is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between Fulwood House at Bu → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → back through Hadrian's Wall between Fulwood House at Bu is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall between Fulwood House at Bu → Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle Fields is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.