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 130 km round trip from Brampton - roughly 2 h 22 in the saddle. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall between the track to Cockmo, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630 and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Beside the river Gelt, a small stream that runs through a wooded sandstone gorge east of Carlisle, a smooth face of rock bears an inscription cut by Roman soldiers some eighteen centuries ago. This is the Written Rock of Gelt. It marks the quarry where legionaries cut stone for the western part of Hadrian's Wall, and it records their work, with names and dates, in neat Latin letters that are still readable though weathered by the rain.
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Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscrip is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall between the track to Cockmo.
The stretch of Wall near Cawfields is where the whole thing makes the most sense, because the Romans used the landscape. Here the Great Whin Sill, a hard ridge of dark dolerite, rises in a line of crags along the north, and the Wall runs along the top of it, looking down over a drop on one side and a long slope on the other. Close to Cockmount Hill, the Wall and its southern ditch, the vallum, are both visible, and the milefortlet at Cawfields is one of the best preserved on the line, a square enclosure with a gateway still standing. Nearby, an old quarry has filled with water to make a small, dark lake at the foot of the crags.
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Hadrian's Wall between the track to Cockmo comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road.
Between Hexham and Haydon Bridge, the river Tyne runs through a wide green valley, and on the ridge to the north the line of Hadrian's Wall can be traced across fields and woods in a series of ditches, banks and stretches of masonry.
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about 46 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630.
Out at the eastern end of the frontier, the Wall leaves the moors behind and runs through gentle farmland toward Newcastle, and most of what survives here is not stone but earth: the vallum, a broad ditch flanked by banks that the Romans dug just south of the Wall along almost its entire length. Between the Tyne and the Military Road, near Heddon-on-the-Wall and Rudchester, the vallum can be traced in the fields as a long hollow, and the Wall itself lies largely under the road or as low courses in the grass. Its purpose is still debated, but most scholars see it as a boundary marking the military zone, controlling who could approach the Wall.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road sits at 99 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between the track to Cockmo.
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back through Hadrian's Wall between the track to Cockmo comes up about 104 km into the recorded legs. Next is Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscrip.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscrip write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscrip closes the day.
Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscrip → Hadrian's Wall between the track to Cockmo is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between the track to Cockmo → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630 is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630 → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the road → back through Hadrian's Wall between the track to Cockmo is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall between the track to Cockmo → Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscrip is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.