CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Greenhead it runs 169 km to Greenhead; allow about 3 h 04 of riding. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Ne, Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of, Skinburness and back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of. 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.
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The vallum between Cockmount Hill and Wall is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Ne.
The Cam Beck is a small stream that tumbles out of the hills and runs down towards the Irthing, and the Wall crosses it near Banks, in a stretch where the line is still very clear. Here the Wall's visible remains run along a ridge, with the green bank of the Vallum behind, the long ditch that the Romans dug on the south side to mark the military zone. The label gives the place as the stretch between the Cam Beck and Newtown, in the east of Cumbria, and the walk there is among the easiest on the whole line, with open fields and distant views of the Pennines. The stone Wall was built on a narrower foundation here than in the east, and a turf Wall once stood alongside it.
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Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Ne comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of.
The Solway Firth, west of Carlisle, is a wide, shallow estuary where the Cumbrian plain opens out to the sea, and the marshes and farmland on its southern shore are the western end of Hadrian's Wall, with the Scottish hills visible on the far side. The land is low, wet and windy, with cattle in the fields and tall skies full of birds, and a visitor will find little that looks like Roman engineering until they look closely at the ground.
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about 53 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of. Next is Skinburness.
Skinburness is a scatter of houses at the tip of a shingle spit on the Solway coast of Cumbria, just north of Silloth, looking across the wide, shimmering estuary to the hills of Scotland. When the tide goes out, the Solway empties into vast expanses of sand and mud, with channels winding through them, and the light changes constantly as clouds race overhead. On clear evenings, the sunsets over the Scottish hills, with the dark bulk of Criffel opposite, are spectacular.
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Skinburness, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of.
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back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of sits at 101 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Ne.
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back through Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Ne comes up about 144 km into the recorded legs. Next is The vallum between Cockmount Hill and Wall.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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The vallum between Cockmount Hill and Wall closes the day.
The vallum between Cockmount Hill and Wall → Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Ne is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Ne → Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of → Skinburness is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Skinburness → back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of → back through Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Ne is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Ne → The vallum between Cockmount Hill and Wall is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.