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Winwick Link Road

A49

Also runs asTarporley RoadWigan RoadPreston RoadWarrington RoadWhitchurch RoadNewton RoadLudlow RoadWestwood WayWinwick RoadShrewsbury RoadLondon RoadLudlow Bypass
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Plan a drive around it
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9 measured points along the stretch, threaded approximately — the dots are where the A49 was scored, and the dashed line between them is not its shape. Numbered pins are the stops listed below.
Length
3.5 km
How curvy
Mostly straight
5% curviness — Gentle bends at most, averaged along its length.
Curvy metres
163
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.

  • national limit (70)100%

Runs past

  • Winwick·village·10 m
  • Croft·village·1.7 km
  • Arbury·hamlet·10 m
  • Hermitage Green·hamlet·610 m
  • Houghton Green·hamlet·870 m
  • New Lane End·hamlet·2.0 km

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

Worth stopping at

The places and their tags are from OpenStreetMap.

No Twistly drives use the A49 yet. Plan the first one.

Near the A49

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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