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Highwood Road

B5017

Also runs asStubby LaneHenhurst Hill
Plan a drive around it
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6 measured points along the stretch, threaded approximately — the dots are where the B5017 was scored, and the dashed line between them is not its shape. Numbered pins are the stops listed below.
Length
5.5 km
How curvy
Winding
10% curviness — Genuine bends along it rather than long straights.
Curvy metres
553
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 100% 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

  • Uttoxeter·town·410 m
  • Marchington·village·450 m
  • Marchington Woodlands·village·890 m
  • Birch Cross·hamlet·10 m
  • Blount's Green·hamlet·770 m
  • Houndhill·hamlet·1.1 km

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

Worth stopping at

  • Pin 1 on the map:Starbucks

    Café · 240 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • website
    Open in Google Maps ↗

  • Pin 2 on the map:Moza

    Restaurant · 320 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • website
    Open in Google Maps ↗

  • Pin 3 on the map:Dog & Partridge

    Pub · 590 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • website
    Open in Google Maps ↗

  • Pin 4 on the map:The Smithfield Hotel

    Pub · 620 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • phone
    • website
    Open in Google Maps ↗

  • Pin 5 on the map:The Dapple Grey

    Pub · 640 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • website
    Open in Google Maps ↗

  • Pin 6 on the map:The Old Swan

    Pub · 350 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • accessible
    • website
    Open in Google Maps ↗

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.

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