CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 247 km round trip from Annan - roughly 3 h 34 in the saddle. It goes by way of Watchclose Roman temporary camp, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac and Haltwhistle Burn Roman temporary camps 2 a. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Bowness-on-Solway is where Hadrian's Wall ends, or begins, depending on which way you are walking. This quiet village on the southern shore of the Solway Firth sits on top of the Roman fort of Maia, the second largest on the Wall, and its civilian settlement, which together make up the site on the label, part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site. Almost nothing of the fort survives above ground, as much of the stone went into the houses, church and farm buildings of the village, but you can find Roman stones reused in walls if you look closely.
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The Roman fort and associated civil settle is where the day begins. Next is Watchclose Roman temporary camp.
East of Carlisle, between the villages of Brampton and Wetheral, the countryside rolls gently towards the Pennines, with green fields, hedges and patches of woodland. Somewhere in these fields lie the faint traces of Watchclose, a Roman temporary camp, one of many marching camps built by soldiers on campaign or during the construction of Hadrian's Wall. These camps were enclosed by a ditch and bank and used for a night or a season, and today they are often visible only from the air or as slight undulations in the grass. Watchclose is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
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Watchclose Roman temporary camp comes up 34 km in. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road.
Around Haltwhistle the wall climbs on to the Whin Sill, a hard ridge of dark volcanic rock that runs across northern England like a spine, and the effect is among the most dramatic on the whole frontier. The wall rides the crest of crags, rising and falling over the rock, with a steep drop to the north and long views over moorland, and the Roman engineers made full use of the natural defence. The vallum, a broad flat-bottomed ditch with mounds on either side, runs in the valley to the south, and it marks the boundary of the military zone behind the wall.
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68 km in you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac.
Just north of Hexham, the A road climbs out of the Tyne valley and meets the Roman frontier on a high, windy shoulder of Northumberland. Here, near Acomb, Wall and the crossing of the North Tyne at Chollerford, the line of Hadrian's Wall and its vallum runs across open farmland, sometimes visible as a low bank, sometimes followed by the road itself. Like every stretch of the frontier, it belongs to the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and this middle section is where the wall starts to feel serious, heading west into the wild central crags.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac, about halfway. Next is Haltwhistle Burn Roman temporary camps 2 a.
Haltwhistle Burn is a small stream that cuts down toward the South Tyne just east of Haltwhistle, and the name is one of those wonderful northern English mouthfuls that seems to have been in use forever. Here, beside the burn, the Romans left a cluster of temporary camps, several overlapping enclosures that show how often armies returned to the same convenient ground. Alongside them lies a fort on the Stanegate, the military road that predates Hadrian's Wall. The camps are low earthworks in pasture, best appreciated in slanting light and with a little imagination.
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Haltwhistle Burn Roman temporary camps 2 a sits at 137 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac comes up 171 km in. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road.
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205 km in you reach back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road. Next is back through Watchclose Roman temporary camp.
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back through Watchclose Roman temporary camp, late in the day. Next is The Roman fort and associated civil settle.
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The route ends here after 247 km.
The Roman fort and associated civil settle → Watchclose Roman temporary camp is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchclose Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac → Haltwhistle Burn Roman temporary camps 2 a is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Haltwhistle Burn Roman temporary camps 2 a → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the trac → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road → back through Watchclose Roman temporary camp is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchclose Roman temporary camp → The Roman fort and associated civil settle is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.