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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321 km from Bardon Mill to Bardon Mill, about 4 h 23 of riding. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 5, Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be and back through Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 5. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
There is a stretch of Hadrian's Wall that everybody has seen in photographs: the Wall riding the crest of the Whin Sill like a stone ribbon, plunging into dips and climbing again, with a long, dark lake, Crag Lough, beneath the cliffs. This is it, near Steel Rigg and Once Brewed, and the site on the label, the vallum and the remains of a native British settlement, lies just to the south in the shadow of the crags. It is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site, and it is a reminder that people lived here long before the Romans and kept living here while the soldiers watched over them.
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The vallum and a British settlement betwee is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 5.
Wall mile 5 is in Newcastle, which means that the Roman frontier is under a bus route. The Wall began at Wallsend and ran west, and the antiquarians who surveyed it numbered every Roman mile from there, so mile five falls in Benwell, a hillside district of terraces above the Tyne. Here the old line is now more or less the West Road, a main road into the city, and a short way off the road you can find real Roman stone. A tiny temple dedicated to a local British god called Antenociticus stands in a small garden between modern houses, with its three altars copied in place, and the remains of the Vallum, the broad ditch south of the Wall, crosses a causeway nearby. The fort of Condercum stood on the hill above, with a fine view east down the river.
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Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 5 comes up about 51 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 160 km into the recorded legs you reach Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 5.
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back through Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 5, late in the day. Next is The vallum and a British settlement betwee.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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Back at The vallum and a British settlement betwee. That is the ride.
The vallum and a British settlement betwee → Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 5 is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 5 → Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be is 109 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be → back through Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 5 is 110 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 5 → The vallum and a British settlement betwee is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.