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Port Road

A4050

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28 measured points along the stretch, threaded approximately — the dots are where the A4050 was scored, and the dashed line between them is not its shape. Numbered pins are the stops listed below.
Length
6.0 km
How curvy
Properly twisty
17% curviness — Tight, sustained bends — well above the average road.
Curvy metres
1,009
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.

  • 40 mph76%
  • 50 mph24%

Runs past

  • Barry·town·2.0 km
  • Wenvoe·village·20 m
  • Drope·village·1.4 km
  • Twyn-yr-Odyn·hamlet·340 m
  • St Andrew's Major·hamlet·1000 m
  • St Lythans·hamlet·1.2 km

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

Worth stopping at

  • Pin 1 on the map:Starbucks

    Café · 10 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • hours listed
    • phone
    • website
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  • Pin 2 on the map:The Wenvoe Arms

    Pub · 10 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • outdoor seating
    • hours listed
    • phone
    • website
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  • Pin 3 on the map:Coopers Carvery

    Pub · 670 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • hours listed
    • phone
    • website
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  • Pin 4 on the map:Walston Castle

    Restaurant · 10 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • outdoor seating
    • website
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  • Pin 5 on the map:Master Mariner

    Pub · 450 m from the road, approximately

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

  • Pin 6 on the map:The Beech Tree Restaurant

    Restaurant · 120 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • phone
    • website
    Open in Google Maps ↗

The places and their tags are from OpenStreetMap.

No Twistly drives use the A4050 yet. Plan the first one.

Near the A4050

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.

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