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 Haltwhistle it runs 236 km to Haltwhistle; allow about 3 h 39 of riding. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall between Apple Garth, Parton Roman fort and back through Hadrian's Wall between Apple Garth. The line favours views over speed.
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 Hadrian's Wall between Apple Garth.
The Solway Firth is a strange piece of sea. It is wide and shallow and has some of the biggest tidal ranges in Britain, and at low water it empties into a landscape of sand, mud and channels where the tide can return faster than a walker can run. On its northern shore, the Scottish side, the land around Eastriggs and Annan is flat salt marsh and farmland, backed by low green hills, and across the water you can see the Cumbrian fells rising bluish and far off. The Roman frontier ended on the other side, at Bowness, but the Romans watched this shore too, and the wall's western run along the English edge is the reason the area is on the heritage map.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between Apple Garth write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall between Apple Garth comes up about 54 km into the recorded legs. Next is Parton Roman fort.
Hadrian's Wall stopped at Bowness-on-Solway, but the Roman frontier did not. Down the Cumbrian coast, the army built a chain of forts, milefortlets and towers to watch the sea and stop raiders slipping round the end of the Wall, and Parton, just north of Whitehaven, was one of them. The fort is known from excavations and records rather than standing remains, and the coastal defences as a whole are included in the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Standing on the cliffs above the sea, you can see why the Romans worried: across the water lie the Isle of Man and, on clear days, the hills of Scotland.
Read the complete Parton Roman fort write-up.
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about 118 km into the recorded legs you reach Parton Roman fort. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between Apple Garth.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between Apple Garth write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall between Apple Garth, 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 → Hadrian's Wall between Apple Garth is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between Apple Garth → Parton Roman fort is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parton Roman fort → back through Hadrian's Wall between Apple Garth is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall between Apple Garth → Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.