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 156 km to Greenhead; allow about 2 h 42 of riding. The stops in between: Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps, Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be, Wolsty North tower 13a and back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 27 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Throp is a farm name on the edge of Gilsland, in the narrow gap where the River Irthing slips between the northern Pennines and the moors that roll north towards the Scottish border. A small Roman fortlet stood here, close to the Stanegate, the road that ran along the valley before the Wall was built, and it is one of the many features that make up the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site. Not much remains to see, but the setting is classic Wall country.
Read the complete Throp Roman fortlet write-up.
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Throp Roman fortlet is where the day begins. Next is Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps.
Don't expect walls. The two Roman temporary camps at Moss Side are the sort of monument you mostly have to imagine: a pair of rectangles traced in the fields east of Carlisle, known from cropmarks and low earthworks rather than anything that rises above the grass. What you are looking at is a farmed slope of the lower Eden country, hedges and pasture, with Scotby and Wetheral a few kilometres off and the city of Carlisle seven kilometres to the west. The point of stopping is to stand where a Roman army once dug in for the night and to let the landscape do the explaining.
Read the complete Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps write-up.
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Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. Next is Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be.
The small Roman fort at Drumburgh sat on a low rise above the Solway marshes, guarding a stretch of Hadrian's Wall where the frontier ran along the edge of the firth towards its western end at Bowness. Nothing much survives of the fort itself, but its stones did not go far. Drumburgh Castle, a fortified farmhouse built in the sixteenth century by the Dacre family, is clearly made from reused Roman masonry, and you can still pick out dressed blocks and even the odd carved fragment set into its walls.
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about 52 km into the recorded legs you reach Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be. Next is Wolsty North tower 13a.
Silloth is a small Victorian town on the Solway coast of Cumbria, built in the nineteenth century as a port and a seaside resort, with wide cobbled streets, a green along the seafront and views across the Solway Firth to the hills of Scotland. Just south of the town, at Wolsty, the Romans built a tower as part of the defences that extended Hadrian's Wall down the Cumbrian coast. Tower 13a was one of a chain of small towers and milefortlets, spaced along the shore to watch for raiders crossing the firth from the north.
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Wolsty North tower 13a, about halfway. Next is back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be write-up.
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back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be sits at 102 km, about halfway. Next is back through Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps write-up.
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back through Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps comes up about 133 km into the recorded legs. Next is Throp Roman fortlet.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Throp Roman fortlet write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Throp Roman fortlet closes the day.
Throp Roman fortlet → Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps → Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be → Wolsty North tower 13a is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wolsty North tower 13a → back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be → back through Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps → Throp Roman fortlet is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.