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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147 km from Bardon Mill to Bardon Mill, about 2 h 16 of riding. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun, Hadrian's Wall and vallum from East Town H, Roman fort and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum from East Town H. The coast is the point of it.
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 & vallum between field boun.
Hadrian's Wall runs for about seventy-three miles across the north of England, from the Solway Firth in the west to the Tyne in the east, built on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian after his visit to Britain in 122 AD.
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Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun comes up about 23 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum from East Town H.
Heddon-on-the-Wall announces its pedigree in its name, and just east of the village, on the slope down towards Newcastle, you find the longest surviving stretch of the Wall in the eastern sector. It is a section of broad wall, built to the original specification of about ten Roman feet thick, before the builders further west were told to save time and stone by making it narrower. Standing beside it, with fields falling away towards the Tyne, you get a strong sense of the scale of the project: this curtain once ran unbroken for eighty Roman miles.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum from East Town H write-up.
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about 41 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum from East Town H. Next is Roman fort.
At the mouth of the Tyne, on a rise above the river, stands a reconstructed Roman gateway that looks surprisingly new. It belongs to Arbeia, the Roman fort at South Shields, which supplied the soldiers along Hadrian's Wall and was built, strategically, to guard the entrance to the river. Ships unloaded grain and other goods here, and the stores were carried along the Wall's line, so this was the logistical heart of the frontier. Reconstructed buildings, including the gatehouse, a barrack and a commander's house, show how it looked, and the museum holds finds from the site.
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Roman fort, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum from East Town H.
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Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum from East Town H write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum from East Town H sits at 111 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun comes up about 125 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Seatsides 2 Roman temporary camp closes the day.
Seatsides 2 Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun → Hadrian's Wall and vallum from East Town H is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum from East Town H → Roman fort is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roman fort → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum from East Town H is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum from East Town H → back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun → Seatsides 2 Roman temporary camp is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.