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 65 km round trip from Haltwhistle - roughly 1 h 03 in the saddle. On the way it passes Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The and back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire. The line favours views over speed.
Steel Rigg is the place everyone photographs. The crag rises steeply from the road, with the Wall running along its top and dipping into a gap known as Sycamore Gap, where a single tree stood for generations in a perfect V of the hills, until it was felled one night in September 2023. The loss caused shock across the country, and the stump now sprouts new shoots. The vallum, the great ditch and mounds south of the Wall, runs beside the road at the foot of the crags, and here it is clearly visible, a long straight hollow in the field, with the mounds standing on either side.
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The vallum between the road to Steel Rigg is where the day begins. Next is Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
The Wall comes into its own here, at the Irthing gorge, where the line runs along a high shelf above the river and you can see why the Romans picked it. Birdoswald fort, known to them as Banna, sits right on that edge, with a long view down the valley and the ground falling away to the water.
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Frontiers of the Roman Empire comes up about 14 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The.
Do not expect a great stone wall here. Near Brampton, on the stretch running out toward the A6071, Hadrian's Wall is mostly a matter of earthworks and imagination: a line in a field, a softened ditch, the long parallel banks of the vallum to the south. In this western sector the wall was originally built of turf and timber before being rebuilt in stone, and centuries of farmers and builders carried off the dressed stones for barns and churches. What survives is listed as part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and once your eye tunes in, you start seeing the line everywhere.
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about 32 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The. Next is back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Frontiers of the Roman Empire write-up.
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back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire, late in the day. Next is The vallum between the road to Steel Rigg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The vallum between the road to Steel Rigg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at The vallum between the road to Steel Rigg. That is the ride.
The vallum between the road to Steel Rigg → Frontiers of the Roman Empire is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Frontiers of the Roman Empire → Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The → back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire → The vallum between the road to Steel Rigg is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.