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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329 km from Bardon Mill to Bardon Mill, about 4 h 22 of riding. It goes by way of Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 7, Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail and back through Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 7. It keeps close to the shore for long stretches.
Seatsides is a name on a map of fields, a spot where a Roman temporary camp is visible only as a faint square in the grass when the light is low. These camps were put up by marching armies, each night, with a ditch and a bank thrown around a regular rectangle, and some of them in the north of England survive as earthworks nearly two thousand years later. This one lies near Haltwhistle, in the Tyne Gap, the low pass that cuts between the Pennines and the Cheviot hills and has been the natural route from east to west across northern England since before the Romans.
Read the complete Seatsides 2 Roman temporary camp write-up.
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Seatsides 2 Roman temporary camp is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 7.
Hadrian's Wall begins its life not on a windswept crag but in the streets of Newcastle, and wall mile 7 runs through the western suburbs around Benwell and Denton, a few kilometres from the city centre. The Romans numbered the miles westward from the fort at Wallsend, and in this stretch the line of the Wall follows the ridge now taken by the West Road. Most of it lies under houses and tarmac, but fragments surface where you least expect them, which is half the fun.
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Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 7 comes up about 51 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail.
The Solway Firth narrows at Bowness-on-Solway, a small village of whitewashed cottages on a low headland, and this is where Hadrian's Wall ended, or rather began, at its western end.
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about 168 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 7.
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back through Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 7, late in the day. Next is Seatsides 2 Roman temporary camp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Seatsides 2 Roman temporary camp write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Seatsides 2 Roman temporary camp. That is the ride.
Seatsides 2 Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 7 is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 7 → Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail is 117 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail → back through Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 7 is 110 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 7 → Seatsides 2 Roman temporary camp is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.