CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Silloth it runs 156 km to Silloth; allow about 2 h 39 of riding. It goes by way of Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La. The line favours views over speed.
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.
Read the complete Wolsty North tower 13a write-up.
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Wolsty North tower 13a is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce.
Across the water from here lies Eastriggs, a quiet Scottish village with a loud past. During the First World War a huge munitions factory stretched for miles along the Solway coast from Gretna to Annan, and the cordite paste that women workers mixed by hand earned the nickname devil's porridge. Thousands lived in purpose-built townships, and the whole operation was kept secret. A museum in Eastriggs now tells the story. The reason the label brings us to the English shore, though, is the Roman frontier, because Hadrian's Wall did not simply stop at Bowness-on-Solway. Beyond it a chain of milefortlets and towers carried on down the Cumbrian coast, watching the sea rather than the hills.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La.
Just east of Carlisle, near the village of Scotby, the Wall leaves almost no mark on the land. Here, at the western end of the Roman frontier, it was built first of turf and timber before being rebuilt in stone, and much of that stone has since been carried off to build farmhouses, churches and field walls. What survives is mostly buried, a faint line in the pasture or a slight ridge followed by a hedge. The vallum, the great earthwork that ran behind the wall, sometimes shows as a shallow trough in the fields. Yet this quiet stretch is part of the same World Heritage site as the dramatic crags further east, and walking the Hadrian's Wall Path through it gives a sense of continuity across the whole country.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La write-up.
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about 55 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
West of Birdoswald the Wall changes character. The central crags fall behind, the River Irthing loops through its gorge below, and the frontier runs across gentler farmland towards Banks and Hare Hill, where one of the tallest surviving fragments of the Wall still stands, patched by later hands. Here too the vallum, the great earthwork south of the Wall, can be traced across the fields, and the remains of turrets at Banks East and Pike Hill sit right beside the road. It is a quieter stretch than the famous sections further east, and all the better for it.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel write-up.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La.
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Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La sits at 99 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce.
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Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce comes up about 126 km into the recorded legs. Next is Wolsty North tower 13a.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wolsty North tower 13a write-up.
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Wolsty North tower 13a closes the day.
Wolsty North tower 13a → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky La → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the acce → Wolsty North tower 13a is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.