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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From Silloth it runs 225 km to Silloth; allow about 3 h 24 of riding. The stops in between: The Roman bath house to the north east of, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac and back through The Roman bath house to the north east of. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 61 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.
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Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle Fields is where the day begins. Next is The Roman bath house to the north east of.
Brampton is the kind of small Cumbrian market town that riders pass on the A69 without a second look, which is a pity, because the country just north and east of it is some of the richest Roman and medieval ground on the whole Wall. The site of the Roman bath house lies close to the town, near the remains of an early fort on the Stanegate, and like most bath houses it sat outside the fort walls, where its furnaces and the risk of fire could do less harm. Little or nothing stands above ground, so come for the setting rather than the stones.
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The Roman bath house to the north east of comes up about 60 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac.
Just north of Hexham, the A road climbs out of the Tyne valley and meets the Roman frontier on a high, windy shoulder of Northumberland. Here, near Acomb, Wall and the crossing of the North Tyne at Chollerford, the line of Hadrian's Wall and its vallum runs across open farmland, sometimes visible as a low bank, sometimes followed by the road itself. Like every stretch of the frontier, it belongs to the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and this middle section is where the wall starts to feel serious, heading west into the wild central crags.
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about 113 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac. Next is back through The Roman bath house to the north east of.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through The Roman bath house to the north east of, late in the day. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle Fields. That is the ride.
Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle Fields → The Roman bath house to the north east of is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Roman bath house to the north east of → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac → back through The Roman bath house to the north east of is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Roman bath house to the north east of → Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle Fields is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.