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 75 km round trip from Bardon Mill - roughly 1 h 32 in the saddle. It goes by way of Hadrian's Wall between the track to Cockmo, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Banks Gr and back through Hadrian's Wall between the track to Cockmo. The line favours views over speed.
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 between the track to Cockmo.
The stretch of Wall near Cawfields is where the whole thing makes the most sense, because the Romans used the landscape. Here the Great Whin Sill, a hard ridge of dark dolerite, rises in a line of crags along the north, and the Wall runs along the top of it, looking down over a drop on one side and a long slope on the other. Close to Cockmount Hill, the Wall and its southern ditch, the vallum, are both visible, and the milefortlet at Cawfields is one of the best preserved on the line, a square enclosure with a gateway still standing. Nearby, an old quarry has filled with water to make a small, dark lake at the foot of the crags.
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Hadrian's Wall between the track to Cockmo comes up about 14 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Banks Gr.
North-east of Brampton, the Wall climbs out of the Irthing valley and runs along a ridge past the hamlet of Banks, and here you can see something many visitors miss: not only the Wall itself, but the vallum, the great earthwork ditch with banks on either side that the Romans dug just south of it. The vallum marked a military zone, a controlled strip where civilians could not wander freely, and seeing its long straight line beside the stone curtain makes the frontier feel less like a wall and more like a whole system of control.
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about 38 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Banks Gr. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between the track to Cockmo.
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back through Hadrian's Wall between the track to Cockmo, late in the day. Next is The vallum and early Roman road between th.
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Back at The vallum and early Roman road between th. That is the ride.
The vallum and early Roman road between th → Hadrian's Wall between the track to Cockmo is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between the track to Cockmo → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Banks Gr is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Banks Gr → back through Hadrian's Wall between the track to Cockmo is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall between the track to Cockmo → The vallum and early Roman road between th is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.