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A593

  • Water
  • Moorland
  • Forest
Plan a drive around it
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48 measured points along the stretch, threaded approximately — the dots are where the A593 was scored, and the dashed line between them is not its shape. Numbered pins are the stops listed below.
Length
19.0 km
How curvy
Relentlessly twisty
24% curviness — Among the most tightly curved roads in the database.
Curvy metres
4,584
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.

  • 20 mph11%
  • 30 mph7%
  • national limit (60)79%
  • Other limits (each under 5%)3%

Runs past

  • Ambleside·town·240 m
  • Coniston·village·50 m
  • Skelwith Bridge·village·10 m
  • Torver·village·10 m
  • Little Langdale·village·1.3 km
  • Elterwater·village·1.4 km

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

Worth stopping at

  • Pin 1 on the map:Chesters by the River

    Café · 10 m from the road, approximately

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

  • Pin 2 on the map:Fellinis

    Restaurant · 80 m from the road, approximately

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

  • Pin 3 on the map:Food Vibez

    Café · 150 m from the road, approximately

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

  • Pin 4 on the map:Jintana Thai Restaurant

    Restaurant · 170 m from the road, approximately

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

  • Pin 5 on the map:Costa

    Café · 250 m from the road, approximately

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

  • Pin 6 on the map:The Green Housekeeper

    Café · 10 m from the road, approximately

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

The places and their tags are from OpenStreetMap.

Part of 14 Twistly drives

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

Near the A593

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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