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Public · Starts near Bakewell
Twistly pickPeak District and Ecton Road Loop
This loop threads through Derbyshire countryside along the B6012 and B6521 before tightening onto the sharp bends of Ecton Road. The route transitions from open valley stretches into tight rural curves bordered by dry stone walls and hedgerows.
- How curvy
- Winding
- 28% curvy share
- Distance
- 66.7 km
- Driving time
- 1 hr 9
Routes are suggestions and road conditions change. Always drive to the conditions and obey speed limits.
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Corners for a fifth to a third of the way, with open road in between. 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 14% — 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
- 65 km
- Stops found
- 5
- Speed limits
Limits: mostly national limit · 18% in 50slimits partly inferred
- Width
- Standard
- Surface
- 59% sealed
Finishes where it started
Kept off the route
On target — this came out at 66.7 km
Mapped within 500 m of the line
Limits are inferred from the road's class for 36% of this drive — nobody has mapped a limit there, so the national limit for the class is assumed.
49% of the drive · 44% narrow, 6% wide
41% of the drive has no surface recorded — untagged, not unsealed
Runs past
BakewellCalverCalver SoughBeeleyRowsleyYoulgrave
Settlements within about a kilometre of the drive, in the order it reaches them. From OpenStreetMap.
Along the way
The H Bar & Restaurant
Restaurant · 120 m off the route
parking · hours listed · phone · website
At the start
Curry Cottages at The Lovers' Leap
Restaurant · 340 m off the route
parking · food · hours listed · phone · website
18% along
The Old Smithy
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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