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Public · Starts near Hawes
Twistly pickCoal Road and the High Dales
Climb across exposed moorland along Coal Road and Cross Top before tracing the valley contours. The B6270 cuts through rugged fell country with sustained curves and wide fellside views.
- How curvy
- Properly twisty
- 36% curvy share
- Distance
- 69.9 km
- Driving time
- 51 min
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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 18% — 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
- Character
- Open moorland
- Motorways
- Avoided
- Asked for
- 70 km
- Stops found
- 5
- Speed limits
Limits: mostly national limit
- Width
- Standard
- Surface
- 41% sealed
Finishes where it started
The kind of road it was built from
Kept off the route
On target — this came out at 69.9 km
Mapped within 500 m of the line
What is on the poles along the drive, by share of its length.
49% of the drive · 4% single-track, 47% narrow
59% of the drive has no surface recorded — untagged, not unsealed
Runs past
HawesGayleSimonstoneThwaiteMukerAppersett
Settlements within about a kilometre of the drive, in the order it reaches them. From OpenStreetMap.
Along the way
The Board Inn
Pub · 370 m off the route
parking · food · real ale · phone · website
At the start
Keld Green Cafe
Café · 10 m off the route
parking · food · outdoor seating · hours listed · phone
17% along
The Old School cakery
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 · docpro · CC BY-SA 3.0 
Near this route · Nigel Thompson · CC BY-SA 2.0 
Near this route · Russel Wills · CC BY-SA 2.0
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