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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A 284 km round trip from Bardon Mill - roughly 4 h 03 in the saddle. It goes by way of Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of, The English Lake District and back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of. Lakes are the scenery here.
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 67 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
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 Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of.
The Solway Firth, west of Carlisle, is a wide, shallow estuary where the Cumbrian plain opens out to the sea, and the marshes and farmland on its southern shore are the western end of Hadrian's Wall, with the Scottish hills visible on the far side. The land is low, wet and windy, with cattle in the fields and tall skies full of birds, and a visitor will find little that looks like Roman engineering until they look closely at the ground.
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Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of comes up about 54 km into the recorded legs. Next is The English Lake District.
Wordsworth wandered lonely as a cloud round here, and anybody who has ridden the Lake District on a wet bank holiday will understand the appeal of being lonely. The English Lake District, listed by UNESCO in 2017 as a cultural landscape, is a compact knot of mountains, lakes and valleys in Cumbria, shaped by glaciers and then by centuries of sheep farming, slate quarrying and, from the late eighteenth century, by poets, painters and tourists who came looking for the sublime.
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about 142 km into the recorded legs you reach The English Lake District. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of.
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back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of, late in the day. 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.
Back at Stone circle. That is the ride.
Stone circle → Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of → The English Lake District is 88 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The English Lake District → back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of is 87 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of → Stone circle is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.