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 114 km to Greenhead; allow about 1 h 48 of riding. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun, Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 7 and back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun. The line favours views over speed.
The vallum is the strangest part of Hadrian's Wall, and the one that nobody fully understands. It is a great flat-bottomed ditch, with a mound on each side, running along the south of the Wall for its whole length, and it was dug soon after the Wall was begun. The usual explanation is that it marked the back edge of the military zone, a boundary that civilians were not meant to cross except at controlled crossings, but nobody knows quite what it was for. Between Cockmount Hill and the village of Walltown, the vallum is clear and well preserved, a green trench in the field that you can follow with the eye for a long way.
Read the complete The vallum between Cockmount Hill and Wall write-up.
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The vallum between Cockmount Hill and Wall is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun.
Hadrian's Wall runs for about seventy-three miles across the north of England, from the Solway Firth in the west to the Tyne in the east, built on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian after his visit to Britain in 122 AD.
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Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 7.
It takes a little imagination to find the Roman frontier in Benwell, a suburb on the western hill of Newcastle, but it is there, tucked between semi-detached houses and bus stops. Wall mile 7 counts the distance from the Wall's eastern end at Wallsend, and in this part of the city the Romans built a fort called Condercum on the high ground above the Tyne, with fine views up and down the river. Most of it now lies under roads and housing, yet two small survivals make the detour worthwhile.
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about 57 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 7. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun, late in the day. Next is The vallum between Cockmount Hill and Wall.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The vallum between Cockmount Hill and Wall write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at The vallum between Cockmount Hill and Wall. That is the ride.
The vallum between Cockmount Hill and Wall → Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun → Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 7 is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 7 → back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun → The vallum between Cockmount Hill and Wall is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.