CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Greenhead it runs 131 km to Greenhead; allow about 2 h 37 of riding. It goes by way of Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The, Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav, Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou and Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps.
On a low ridge south of the Wall, near the village of Low Row, the foundations of a Roman stone tower sit in a field with a commanding view up and down the Irthing valley. The signal station on Mains Rigg belonged to the system of the Stanegate, the road that ran from Corbridge to Carlisle before the Wall was built, and it allowed messages to be passed between forts by fire, smoke or flags. From here, on a clear day, you can see for miles: west to Carlisle, east toward the Pennines and north over the Wall.
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Roman signal station on Mains Rigg is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The.
Do not expect a great stone wall here. Near Brampton, on the stretch running out toward the A6071, Hadrian's Wall is mostly a matter of earthworks and imagination: a line in a field, a softened ditch, the long parallel banks of the vallum to the south. In this western sector the wall was originally built of turf and timber before being rebuilt in stone, and centuries of farmers and builders carried off the dressed stones for barns and churches. What survives is listed as part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and once your eye tunes in, you start seeing the line everywhere.
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Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav.
Carlisle was the western hub of Hadrian's Wall, and on its northern edge, at Stanwix, stood the largest fort on the whole frontier. Known to the Romans as Uxelodunum, it held a cavalry regiment about a thousand strong, and its commander was one of the most important officers on the wall. Little of it is visible now, since the fort lies under the streets and gardens of a suburb, but the line of the wall can be traced through the town, in parts of the pavement and the shape of the streets, and a short surviving section lies in a quiet corner near the river Eden.
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about 34 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou.
The vallum is the strangest part of Hadrian's Wall, and a good place to see it is on the flat ground near Bowness-on-Solway. It is a broad, deep ditch with a flat bottom, flanked by two mounds of earth set back from the edge, and it ran along the south side of the wall for its whole length. Nobody is certain what it was for, but the best theory is that it marked the rear boundary of a military zone, a line that civilians could cross only at controlled points, which fits with the idea of the wall as a border of customs and security as well as defence.
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Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou, about halfway. Next is Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps.
Carlisle is where the Roman frontier met the border of two kingdoms, and the city holds all of that history in a compact space. The Romans built a fort here called Luguvalium, beside the River Eden, and it was an important base for the western end of the Wall. In the Middle Ages the red sandstone castle was the stronghold of the English border, and Mary, Queen of Scots, was held there for two months in 1568 after fleeing across the Solway. The cathedral, one of the smallest in England, has a huge east window and a painted ceiling of gold stars on blue. Tullie House Museum tells the story from the Romans to the border reivers, the raiding families of the borderland.
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Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps sits at 68 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou.
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back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou comes up about 83 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav.
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about 100 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The.
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back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The, late in the day. Next is Roman signal station on Mains Rigg.
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The route ends here after 131 km.
Roman signal station on Mains Rigg → Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The → Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav → Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou → Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps → back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercou → back through Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Dav → back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The → Roman signal station on Mains Rigg is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.