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Bickenhill Lane

B4438

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24 measured points along the stretch, threaded approximately — the dots are where the B4438 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
Properly twisty
19% curviness — Tight, sustained bends — well above the average road.
Curvy metres
648
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 mph97%
  • Other limits (each under 5%)3%

Runs past

  • Bickenhill·village·640 m
  • Coleshill Heath·village·1.3 km
  • Marston Green·village·1.9 km
  • Middle Bickenhill·hamlet·1.4 km

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

Worth stopping at

  • Pin 1 on the map:Caffè Nero

    Café · 240 m from the road, approximately

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

  • Pin 2 on the map:Las Iguanas

    Restaurant · 500 m from the road, approximately

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

  • Pin 3 on the map:Airport Wetherspoons

    Pub · 270 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • real ale
    • toilets
    • accessible
    • phone
    • website
    Open in Google Maps ↗

  • Pin 4 on the map:Starbucks

    Café · 290 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • hours listed
    Open in Google Maps ↗

  • Pin 5 on the map:Little Owl

    Pub · 870 m from the road, approximately

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

  • Pin 6 on the map:SOHO coffee

    Café · 320 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • website
    Open in Google Maps ↗

The places and their tags are from OpenStreetMap.

No Twistly drives use the B4438 yet. Plan the first one.

Near the B4438

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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