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 62 km round trip from Haltwhistle - roughly 51 min in the saddle. On the way it passes 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 likes to call itself the centre of Britain, and whether or not you believe the measurements, it sits at the very heart of Hadrian's Wall country. Just outside the town, on a gentle slope called Sunny Rigg, the outlines of two Roman temporary camps have been traced, rectangular enclosures with rounded corners where units on the march, or building the wall, pitched their leather tents behind a bank and a ditch for a night or a season. They are part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site, though on the ground you will see only faint lines in the grass, best appreciated from the air or in low evening light.
Read the complete Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp write-up.
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Sunny Rigg 2 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 12 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 27 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 2 Roman temporary camp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp. That is the ride.
Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp → Grindon School Roman temporary camp is 12 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 2 Roman temporary camp is 12 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.