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 63 km round trip from Haltwhistle - roughly 51 min in the saddle. It goes by way of Grindon School Roman temporary camp, Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun and back through Grindon School Roman temporary camp. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Haltwhistle sits in the Tyne Gap, the low cleft where the South Tyne and the old Carlisle road squeeze between the high moors of the north Pennines and the Whin Sill ridge, and that gap is the reason the Romans cared about this ground. A temporary camp is exactly what it sounds like: a ditched and banked enclosure thrown up for a night or a few weeks by an army on the march or on building duty, then abandoned. Most were ploughed flat long ago and now show only as crop marks or faint corners in a pasture, so go in expecting a field, not a ruin. What you get is the story, and the story is good.
Read the complete Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp write-up.
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Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp is where the day begins. Next is Grindon School Roman temporary camp.
Marching soldiers did not sleep in the open. Every night on campaign, a Roman army dug a ditch and threw up a rampart around its tents, and the faint outlines of these temporary camps are scattered across Northumberland, some dating from the conquest of the north, others from the building of the Wall. The camp near the old Grindon school, close to the Stanegate a little north of Haydon Bridge, is one of these. You will need a good map and a low sun to make out its banks.
Read the complete Grindon School Roman temporary camp write-up.
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Grindon School Roman temporary camp comes up about 13 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun write-up.
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about 28 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun. Next is back through Grindon School Roman temporary camp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Grindon School Roman temporary camp write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Grindon School Roman temporary camp, late in the day. Next is Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp. That is the ride.
Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp → Grindon School Roman temporary camp is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Grindon School Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun → back through Grindon School Roman temporary camp is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Grindon School Roman temporary camp → Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.