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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
168 km from Brampton to Brampton, about 2 h 22 of riding. It goes by way of Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra, Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4 and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Not every stretch of Hadrian's Wall is the dramatic crag-top masonry of the postcards, and this is one of the quieter parts: a section of the vallum, the great ditch-and-mound earthwork the Romans dug behind the wall, running across farmland near Brampton in Cumbria. The stone wall here was largely robbed out long ago for farms and churches, so what survives is often a long, soft hollow in the grass, a line you only notice once someone points it out, and then can't stop seeing.
Read the complete The vallum between the field boundary sout write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The vallum between the field boundary sout is where the day begins. Next is Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp.
The Twice Brewed inn gives its name to a stretch of Northumberland where the Roman frontier is at its most dramatic. Here the Great Whin Sill, a hard sheet of dark volcanic rock, breaks in a long line of cliffs facing north, and the Wall runs along the very edge of it, rising and falling like a stone roller-coaster. Haltwhistle, five kilometres off, is the nearest town, and Hexham lies a good deal further east.
Read the complete Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra.
Just east of the point where the A68 crosses the line of Hadrian's Wall, at Portgate, the Romans had a gateway through the frontier for Dere Street, the great road running north from York into Scotland. Today the A68 follows much the same course, and the wall and its vallum run east and west across the fields here, sometimes visible as a bank or a ditch, sometimes buried under the Military Road. A little to the east, the fort of Halton Chesters, known to the Romans as Onnum, lies under the fields, and like the rest of the frontier, this stretch is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 55 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra. Next is Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4.
Newcastle is not where most people expect the Wall to end, but the Romans did not think of it as the end. The eastern terminus is at Wallsend, a few kilometres downriver, where the fort of Segedunum stood at the point where the Tyne widens, and from there the Wall ran west through what is now the centre of Newcastle. Wall mile 4 lies on that line, and Westgate Road, the main road west out of the city, follows it, so you may be riding along the line of the Wall without any sign. The Romans had a bridge over the Tyne at Newcastle, called Pons Aelius, the Bridge of Aelius, after Hadrian's family name, and the city grew up around the crossing.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra sits at 137 km, about halfway. Next is back through Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp comes up about 141 km into the recorded legs. Next is The vallum between the field boundary sout.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The vallum between the field boundary sout write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The vallum between the field boundary sout closes the day.
The vallum between the field boundary sout → Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra → Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4 is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4 → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybra → back through Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp → The vallum between the field boundary sout is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.