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 248 km round trip from Brampton - roughly 4 h 02 in the saddle. On the way it passes Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle Fields, Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house and back through Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle Fields. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 61 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 Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle Fields.
The Roman frontier did not stop where Hadrian's Wall ended. At Bowness, on the Solway shore, the stone and turf barrier gave out, but a chain of small forts, fortlets and watchtowers continued south along the Cumbrian coast, past Silloth and Maryport to near St Bees, to guard against raiders coming across the water from Scotland and the Irish Sea. Archaeologists still argue about how it worked. Often only a faint platform in a field remains.
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Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle Fields comes up about 59 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house.
Walls Castle is the odd name for a Roman bath house, and the building still stands to a height of about four metres, one of the tallest Roman structures in northern England. It stood outside the fort of Glannoventa at Ravenglass, a harbour station at the meeting of three rivers, the Irt, the Mite and the Esk, and in the dry shelter of the dunes it has survived because its walls were thick and well built. You can walk around it on a short path from the village, and see niches and a doorway in the thick walls. The fort itself lies mostly under farmland and the railway.
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about 123 km into the recorded legs you reach Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house. Next is back through Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle Fields.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle Fields, 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 → Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle Fields is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle Fields → Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house is 64 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house → back through Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle Fields is 65 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle Fields → The Roman bath house to the north east of is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.