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Public · Starts near Bakewell
Twistly pickThe Long B-Road Sweep
This route strings together open cross-country stretches across the B5470 and the sweeping tarmac of the B6076. It links undulating rural landscape with the twisting turns along the B6036.
- How curvy
- Properly twisty
- 32% curvy share
- Distance
- 175.4 km
- Driving time
- 2 hr 55
Routes are suggestions and road conditions change. Always drive to the conditions and obey speed limits.
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A third or more of the drive is in corners, one following the next. Curvy share is how much of the drive is on genuinely curved road, measured on the finished route — including every connecting road it took to get there, not just the good bits. The wording above is cut against real drives: flat-country runs measure in the teens, a good Peak or Wales drive in the thirties, and the best loops in the country in the high forties.
More numbers
Curviness 17% — the length-weighted mean of how tightly the route curves, where 100% would be continuous hairpins. It rewards sharpness where curvy share rewards sustained curve, which is why the two differ.
What to expect
- Shape
- Loop
- Motorways
- Avoided
- Asked for
- 180 km
- Stops found
- 5
- Speed limits
Limits: mostly national limit · 13% in 50s
- Width
- Standard
- Surface
- 62% sealed
Finishes where it started
Kept off the route
On target — this came out at 175.4 km
Mapped within 500 m of the line
What is on the poles along the drive, by share of its length.
50% of the drive · 6% single-track, 44% narrow
36% of the drive has no surface recorded — untagged, not unsealed
The first cells are what this drive was planned for, from the request behind it. The limits, width and surface are measured along the finished line instead — sampled every few hundred metres against OpenStreetMap tags — and busyness comes from Department for Transport traffic counts. A cell is missing where nobody has recorded the fact rather than filled with a guess.
Runs past
BakewellDarley DaleLittonChapel-en-le-FrithWhaley BridgeDungworth
Settlements within about a kilometre of the drive, in the order it reaches them. From OpenStreetMap.
Along the way
Gallery Cafe
Café · 80 m off the route
parking · food · outdoor seating · hours listed
At the start
Square and Compass
Pub · 10 m off the route
parking · food · real ale · outdoor seating · hours listed · website
23% along
The White Hart
Near this route
Photographs taken within about a kilometre of this drive, from Wikimedia Commons. They are near the route — we have no evidence any of them shows it.
Near this route · Richard Newall · CC BY-SA 2.0 
Near this route · Richard Newall · CC BY-SA 2.0 
Near this route · Peter Barr · CC BY-SA 2.0
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