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the Peak District

Macclesfield Road

B5470

Also runs asManchester Road
Plan a drive around it
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11 measured points along the stretch, threaded approximately — the dots are where the B5470 was scored, and the dashed line between them is not its shape. Numbered pins are the stops listed below.
Length
6.8 km
How curvy
Properly twisty
18% curviness — Tight, sustained bends — well above the average road.
Curvy metres
1,197
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 mph13%
  • 50 mph87%

Runs past

  • Whaley Bridge·town·980 m
  • Kettleshulme·village·10 m
  • Taxal·hamlet·350 m
  • Ginclough·hamlet·650 m
  • Rainowlow·hamlet·670 m
  • Rainow·hamlet·1.4 km

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

Worth stopping at

  • Pin 1 on the map:Memories of India

    Restaurant · 790 m from the road, approximately

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

  • Pin 2 on the map:The White Hart

    Pub · 900 m from the road, approximately

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

  • Pin 3 on the map:Bridge 42

    Restaurant · 880 m from the road, approximately

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

  • Pin 4 on the map:The Railway

    Pub · 930 m from the road, approximately

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

  • Pin 5 on the map:The Bridge Bakehouse

    Café · 970 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • outdoor seating
    • phone
    • website
    Open in Google Maps ↗

  • Pin 6 on the map:The Cock

    Pub · 620 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    Open in Google Maps ↗

The places and their tags are from OpenStreetMap.

Part of 5 Twistly drives

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

Near the B5470

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.