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A5074

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39 measured points along the stretch, threaded approximately — the dots are where the A5074 was scored, and the dashed line between them is not its shape. Numbered pins are the stops listed below.
Length
12.0 km
How curvy
Properly twisty
22% curviness — Tight, sustained bends — well above the average road.
Curvy metres
2,671
How these scores are measured

Curvy metres is curviness multiplied by length: how much genuine curve this road actually gives you, rather than how tight its tightest corner is. It is the number that separates a mountain pass from a housing estate.

Speed limits along it

What is on the poles along this stretch, by share of its length.

  • 30 mph38%
  • national limit (60)62%

Runs past

  • Windermere·town·10 m
  • Bowness on Windermere·town·70 m
  • Winster·village·10 m
  • Crosthwaite·village·400 m
  • Crosthwaite Green·village·490 m
  • Bowland Bridge·village·1.5 km

Distances are approximate: the closest this stretch is known to come.

Worth stopping at

  • Pin 1 on the map:Prince of India

    Restaurant · 10 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • hours listed
    • phone
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  • Pin 2 on the map:Villa Positano

    Restaurant · 10 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • hours listed
    • phone
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  • Pin 3 on the map:Hooked

    Restaurant · 10 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • hours listed
    • phone
    • website
    Open in Google Maps ↗

  • Pin 4 on the map:The Trattoria

    Restaurant · 10 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • outdoor seating
    • hours listed
    Open in Google Maps ↗

  • Pin 5 on the map:Bangkok 9

    Restaurant · 10 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • outdoor seating
    • hours listed
    Open in Google Maps ↗

  • Pin 6 on the map:Urban Food House

    Restaurant · 10 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • outdoor seating
    • hours listed
    • phone
    • website
    Open in Google Maps ↗

The places and their tags are from OpenStreetMap.

Part of 7 Twistly drives

The public ones. The rest are private to the people who planned them.

Near the A5074

Photographs taken within about a kilometre of this stretch, from Wikimedia Commons. They are near the road — we have no evidence any of them shows it.

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