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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140 km from Bardon Mill to Bardon Mill, about 2 h 14 of riding. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ, Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps, Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be and back through Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 27 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
From the Military Road near Sewingshields, look south and you will see a long, straight scar running across the moorland: two mounds and a ditch, keeping pace with the Wall a short way behind it. That is the vallum, the great earthwork the Romans dug along the south side of the frontier to mark a military zone, and running alongside it here are traces of an early Roman road. This stretch near Housesteads is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site, and it is one of the places where the full layout of the frontier, wall, ditch, vallum and road, is easiest to read in the landscape.
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The vallum and early Roman road between th is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ.
Gilsland is a village with a split personality. The boundary between Northumberland and Cumbria runs right through it, along the Poltross Burn, so the houses on one side are in one county and those on the other in another. Hadrian's Wall runs through it too, and the stretch of Wall, vallum and associated features around the village is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site. The Wall here crosses the narrow gorge of the burn and the railway line, with a milecastle right next to the old station.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps.
Don't expect walls. The two Roman temporary camps at Moss Side are the sort of monument you mostly have to imagine: a pair of rectangles traced in the fields east of Carlisle, known from cropmarks and low earthworks rather than anything that rises above the grass. What you are looking at is a farmed slope of the lower Eden country, hedges and pasture, with Scotby and Wetheral a few kilometres off and the city of Carlisle seven kilometres to the west. The point of stopping is to stand where a Roman army once dug in for the night and to let the landscape do the explaining.
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about 43 km into the recorded legs you reach Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps. 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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Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be, about halfway. Next is back through Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps.
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back through Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps sits at 101 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ comes up about 122 km into the recorded legs. Next is The vallum and early Roman road between th.
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The vallum and early Roman road between th closes the day.
The vallum and early Roman road between th → Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ → Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps → Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be → back through Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ → The vallum and early Roman road between th is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.