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Penshurst Road

B2176

  • Forest
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10 measured points along the stretch, threaded approximately — the dots are where the B2176 was scored, and the dashed line between them is not its shape. Numbered pins are the stops listed below.
Length
5.4 km
How curvy
Winding
15% curviness — Genuine bends along it rather than long straights.
Curvy metres
801
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.

  • 30 mph6%
  • national limit (60)94%

Speed limits are inferred from road class for 94% of this stretch — nobody has mapped a limit on those parts of the B2176, so the national limit for the class is assumed.

Runs past

  • Penshurst·village·10 m
  • Bidborough·village·350 m
  • Speldhurst·village·810 m
  • Chiddingstone Causeway·village·1.1 km
  • Poundsbridge·hamlet·420 m
  • Charcott·hamlet·1.7 km

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

Worth stopping at

  • Pin 1 on the map:Leicester Arms

    Pub · 10 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • hours listed
    • phone
    • website
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  • Pin 2 on the map:Fir Tree House

    Café · 10 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
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  • Pin 3 on the map:Porcupine Pantry

    Café · 150 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
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  • Pin 4 on the map:The Kentish Hare

    Pub · 240 m from the road, approximately

    • food
    • accessible
    • hours listed
    • phone
    • website
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The places and their tags are from OpenStreetMap.

No Twistly drives use the B2176 yet. Plan the first one.

Near the B2176

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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