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Dartmoor

Longdown Road

B3212

  • Forest
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5 measured points along the stretch, threaded approximately — the dots are where the B3212 was scored, and the dashed line between them is not its shape. Numbered pins are the stops listed below.
Length
6.6 km
How curvy
Properly twisty
16% curviness — Tight, sustained bends — well above the average road.
Curvy metres
1,073
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 mph14%
  • 40 mph23%
  • national limit (60)63%

Speed limits are inferred from road class for 63% of this stretch — nobody has mapped a limit on those parts of the B3212, so the national limit for the class is assumed.

Runs past

  • Longdown·village·10 m
  • Ide·village·1.1 km
  • Pathfinder Village·village·1.5 km
  • Nadderwater·village·1.7 km
  • Doddiscombsleigh·village·1.8 km
  • Holcombe Burnell·hamlet·10 m

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 B3212 yet. Plan the first one.

Near the B3212

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.