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 Bardon Mill it runs 154 km to Bardon Mill; allow about 2 h 44 of riding. The stops in between: Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m S, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La, Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La. The line favours views over speed.
Long before the Romans built their wall across northern England, people were raising stones on these moors. Close to the line of Hadrian's Wall, in the hills north of Haydon Bridge and Haltwhistle, a small prehistoric stone circle stands in the rough grass, a few weathered boulders arranged in a ring, probably dating from the Bronze Age. Its exact purpose is unknown, but circles like this were often used for ceremonies or burials, and many have legends attached to them.
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Stone circle is where the day begins. Next is Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m S.
Where Cumbria meets Northumberland in the valley of the river Irthing, the Wall climbs out of a wooded gorge on to open ground, and a Roman road called the Maiden Way ran north from the Wall towards Bewcastle and south towards Kirkby Thore, linking the frontier to the supply routes of the interior.
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Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m S comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La.
Just east of Carlisle, near the village of Scotby, the Wall leaves almost no mark on the land. Here, at the western end of the Roman frontier, it was built first of turf and timber before being rebuilt in stone, and much of that stone has since been carried off to build farmhouses, churches and field walls. What survives is mostly buried, a faint line in the pasture or a slight ridge followed by a hedge. The vallum, the great earthwork that ran behind the wall, sometimes shows as a shallow trough in the fields. Yet this quiet stretch is part of the same World Heritage site as the dramatic crags further east, and walking the Hadrian's Wall Path through it gives a sense of continuity across the whole country.
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about 51 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La. 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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Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La sits at 100 km, about halfway. Next is back through Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m S.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m S write-up.
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back through Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m S comes up about 125 km into the recorded legs. Next is Stone circle.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stone circle write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Stone circle closes the day.
Stone circle → Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m S is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m S → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La → Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La → back through Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m S is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m S → Stone circle is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.