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 Brampton it runs 76 km to Brampton; allow about 1 h 13 of riding. It goes by way of Bewcastle Roman fort, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel and back through Bewcastle Roman fort. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 16 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Brampton is the kind of small Cumbrian market town that riders pass on the A69 without a second look, which is a pity, because the country just north and east of it is some of the richest Roman and medieval ground on the whole Wall. The site of the Roman bath house lies close to the town, near the remains of an early fort on the Stanegate, and like most bath houses it sat outside the fort walls, where its furnaces and the risk of fire could do less harm. Little or nothing stands above ground, so come for the setting rather than the stones.
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The Roman bath house to the north east of is where the day begins. Next is Bewcastle Roman fort.
Bewcastle is one of the loneliest places in Cumbria, and it has been for a very long time. Roman soldiers built an outpost fort here, about ten kilometres north of Hadrian's Wall, on a plateau whose shape the walls followed, giving it an unusual six-sided plan. It was a forward base for scouts watching the tribes beyond the frontier, and it was linked to the Wall at Birdoswald by a road. Later, a medieval castle was built into one corner of the old Roman defences, and its broken walls still stand above the beck.
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Bewcastle Roman fort comes up about 16 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
Around Haltwhistle the wall country becomes the landscape everyone imagines: the Whin Sill, a long ridge of hard volcanic dolerite, rears up in a series of cliffs facing north, and the Romans used it as a ready-made rampart, running their stone wall along the very top. Between the crags and the road the vallum ditch runs across the fields as a broad, clear trench, and from any high point you can see the whole military system laid out: crag, wall, road and ditch side by side.
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about 38 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel. Next is back through Bewcastle Roman fort.
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back through Bewcastle Roman fort, late in the day. Next is The Roman bath house to the north east of.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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Back at The Roman bath house to the north east of. That is the ride.
The Roman bath house to the north east of → Bewcastle Roman fort is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bewcastle Roman fort → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → back through Bewcastle Roman fort is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Bewcastle Roman fort → The Roman bath house to the north east of is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.