B1070
central Britain
Properly twisty· 19% curvy · 16 kmTight, sustained bends — well above the average road.
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- Length
- 3.9 km
- How curvy
- Mostly straight
- 2% curviness — Gentle bends at most, averaged along its length.
- Curvy metres
- 95
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 (60)100%
Speed limits are inferred from road class for 33% of this stretch — nobody has mapped a limit on those parts of the B5017, so the national limit for the class is assumed.
Runs past
- Needwood·village·110 m
- Tatenhill·village·980 m
- Anslow·village·1.1 km
- Rangemore·hamlet·140 m
- Upper Outwoods·hamlet·1.9 km
- Shobnall·suburb·1.7 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 B5017 yet. Plan the first one.
Near the B5017
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.
Near the B5017 · Michael Patterson · CC BY-SA 2.0 
Near the B5017 · Michael Patterson · CC BY-SA 2.0 
Near the B5017 · Alan Murray-Rust · CC BY-SA 2.0