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 Greenhead it runs 162 km to Greenhead; allow about 2 h 48 of riding. It goes by way of Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The, Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be, Wolsty North tower 13a and back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 31 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Haltwhistle likes to call itself the centre of Britain, and on the road through the South Tyne valley it is easy to believe that this is where England quietly runs out of people. Just north of the town, the line of the Stanegate, the Roman road that linked Carlisle with Corbridge, crosses farmland on the flank of the valley. Little of it shows as more than a faint agger, a raised bank under the grass, but it is older than Hadrian's Wall, which runs along the crags a few kilometres to the north.
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The section of Stanegate Roman road from F is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The.
Do not expect a great stone wall here. Near Brampton, on the stretch running out toward the A6071, Hadrian's Wall is mostly a matter of earthworks and imagination: a line in a field, a softened ditch, the long parallel banks of the vallum to the south. In this western sector the wall was originally built of turf and timber before being rebuilt in stone, and centuries of farmers and builders carried off the dressed stones for barns and churches. What survives is listed as part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and once your eye tunes in, you start seeing the line everywhere.
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Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. Next is Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be.
The small Roman fort at Drumburgh sat on a low rise above the Solway marshes, guarding a stretch of Hadrian's Wall where the frontier ran along the edge of the firth towards its western end at Bowness. Nothing much survives of the fort itself, but its stones did not go far. Drumburgh Castle, a fortified farmhouse built in the sixteenth century by the Dacre family, is clearly made from reused Roman masonry, and you can still pick out dressed blocks and even the odd carved fragment set into its walls.
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about 55 km into the recorded legs you reach Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be. Next is Wolsty North tower 13a.
Silloth is a small Victorian town on the Solway coast of Cumbria, built in the nineteenth century as a port and a seaside resort, with wide cobbled streets, a green along the seafront and views across the Solway Firth to the hills of Scotland. Just south of the town, at Wolsty, the Romans built a tower as part of the defences that extended Hadrian's Wall down the Cumbrian coast. Tower 13a was one of a chain of small towers and milefortlets, spaced along the shore to watch for raiders crossing the firth from the north.
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Wolsty North tower 13a, about halfway. Next is back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be.
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back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be sits at 109 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The.
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back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The comes up about 140 km into the recorded legs. Next is The section of Stanegate Roman road from F.
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The section of Stanegate Roman road from F closes the day.
The section of Stanegate Roman road from F → Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The → Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be → Wolsty North tower 13a is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wolsty North tower 13a → back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be → back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The → The section of Stanegate Roman road from F is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.