- Length
- 14.9 km
- How curvy
- Properly twisty
- 17% curviness — Tight, sustained bends — well above the average road.
- Curvy metres
- 2,604
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 mph21%
- 40 mph47%
- 50 mph32%
Runs past
- Wishaw·town·2.0 km
- Larkhall·town·760 m
- Kirkfieldbank·village·940 m
- Hazelbank·village·10 m
- Dalserf·village·10 m
- Rosebank·village·10 m
Distances are approximate: the closest this stretch is known to come.
Worth stopping at
Pin 1 on the map:Clyde Walkway Cafe
Café · 10 m from the road, approximately
- parking
Pin 2 on the map:The Buttery
Restaurant · 10 m from the road, approximately
- parking
Pin 3 on the map:The Clydesdale Bar
Pub · 670 m from the road, approximately
- parking
Pin 4 on the map:The Village Tavern
Pub · 710 m from the road, approximately
- parking
Pin 6 on the map:Machan Vaults
Pub · 780 m from the road, approximately
- parking
- accessible
The places and their tags are from OpenStreetMap.
No Twistly drives use the A72 yet. Plan the first one.
Near the A72
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.

Near the A72 · Gordon Brown · CC BY-SA 2.0 
Near the A72 · Iain Thompson · CC BY-SA 2.0 
Near the A72 · G Laird · CC BY-SA 2.0














