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 137 km round trip from Annan - roughly 2 h 21 in the saddle. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel, Vindolanda and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
Carlisle was a Roman town before it was an English one. Luguvalium grew beside the Eden, and just across the river at Stanwix stood the largest fort on Hadrian's Wall, home to a cavalry regiment of a thousand men. The wall itself ran along the north side of today's city, and though houses and roads cover it, its line can be traced by plaques and fragments, and the wall and its Vallum are part of the UNESCO listing. A stretch of the ditch and the foundations of milecastles are visible beyond the suburbs.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
East of Carlisle, near the market town of Brampton, Hadrian's Wall crosses a landscape of rolling farmland, hedges and woods along the valley of the River Irthing. Here the wall and its vallum, the great earthwork ditch that ran behind it on the southern side, cross fields where the stone has mostly been robbed for farm buildings, but the earthworks remain clearly visible as long ridges and hollows in the grass.
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about 46 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel. Next is Vindolanda.
Vindolanda is the place where the Romans on the northern frontier start to sound like people. The fort stood on the Stanegate road, just south of the wall, and for several centuries it was rebuilt again and again, each new fort laid on top of the last. The damp, airless soil preserved wood and leather, and in 1973 archaeologists found thin wooden writing tablets covered in ink, letters written by soldiers, officers and their families in about AD 100. They are the oldest handwritten documents found in Britain.
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Vindolanda, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
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Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel sits at 101 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel comes up about 112 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Roman fort and associated civil settle.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Roman fort and associated civil settle write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The Roman fort and associated civil settle closes the day.
The Roman fort and associated civil settle → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Vindolanda is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vindolanda → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → The Roman fort and associated civil settle is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.