CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Silloth it runs 158 km to Silloth; allow about 2 h 34 of riding. It goes by way of Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and B, Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel and back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari.
Hadrian's Wall gets the fame, but the Roman frontier did not simply stop at Bowness-on-Solway. Beyond the end of the wall, a chain of milefortlets and towers continued down the Cumbrian coast, watching the Solway Firth for raiders from the north. Wolsty South, tower 13b, was one of them, a small stone watchtower near Silloth on the low, windy coast. There is little to see today, often just a mark in the ground, but the site is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listed by UNESCO, and its position tells a story: from here, Roman soldiers looked across the water to the hills of Scotland.
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Wolsty South tower 13b is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and B.
The western end of Hadrian's Wall is not where most people expect. Instead of a grand terminus, the frontier fades out among the tidal mud and salt marsh of the Solway Firth, near the village of Bowness-on-Solway, where the last fort once stood. Between Port Carlisle and Bowness the wall is almost entirely gone, its stones carried away for later buildings, and what survives is a line across the fields, a slight rise and a path along the shore. In this section the wall was originally built of turf rather than stone, a cheaper material for the flatter, softer ground.
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Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and B comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari.
Carlisle has been a frontier city for nearly two thousand years, and the vallum that runs across its northern edge is part of the reason. North of the River Eden, in the suburb of Stanwix, stood the largest fort on the whole of Hadrian's Wall, home to a cavalry regiment a thousand strong. The fort lies under the streets and the churchyard now, but the line of the Wall and its rear earthwork, the vallum, can be traced across the fields and gardens to the west, and walkers on the national trail follow it out of the city towards the Solway.
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about 58 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
East of Carlisle, near the market town of Brampton, Hadrian's Wall crosses a landscape of rolling farmland, hedges and woods along the valley of the River Irthing. Here the wall and its vallum, the great earthwork ditch that ran behind it on the southern side, cross fields where the stone has mostly been robbed for farm buildings, but the earthworks remain clearly visible as long ridges and hollows in the grass.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari.
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Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari sits at 99 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and B.
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back through Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and B comes up about 126 km into the recorded legs. Next is Wolsty South tower 13b.
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Wolsty South tower 13b closes the day.
Wolsty South tower 13b → Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and B is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and B → Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 21 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 vallum between the boundari is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari → back through Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and B is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and B → Wolsty South tower 13b is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.