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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60 km from Bardon Mill to Bardon Mill, about 58 min of riding. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ, Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Ne and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
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Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ.
Gilsland is a village with a split personality. The boundary between Northumberland and Cumbria runs right through it, along the Poltross Burn, so the houses on one side are in one county and those on the other in another. Hadrian's Wall runs through it too, and the stretch of Wall, vallum and associated features around the village is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site. The Wall here crosses the narrow gorge of the burn and the railway line, with a milecastle right next to the old station.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ comes up about 13 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Ne write-up.
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about 30 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Ne. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ, late in the day. Next is 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 at Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp. That is the ride.
Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ → Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Ne is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Ne → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associ → Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.