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Sandon Road

B5066

Also runs asHilderstone Road
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14 measured points along the stretch, threaded approximately — the dots are where the B5066 was scored, and the dashed line between them is not its shape. Numbered pins are the stops listed below.
Length
11.0 km
How curvy
Winding
10% curviness — Genuine bends along it rather than long straights.
Curvy metres
1,113
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 mph12%
  • 40 mph5%
  • national limit (60)82%

Speed limits are inferred from road class for 39% of this stretch — nobody has mapped a limit on those parts of the B5066, so the national limit for the class is assumed.

Runs past

  • Stafford·town·770 m
  • Hilderstone·village·110 m
  • Hopton·village·300 m
  • Milwich·village·460 m
  • Salt·village·550 m
  • Marston·village·1.5 km

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

Worth stopping at

  • Pin 1 on the map:The Picture House

    Pub · 980 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • real ale
    • outdoor seating
    • toilets
    • accessible
    • hours listed
    • phone
    • website
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  • Pin 2 on the map:Caffè Nero

    Café · 470 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • hours listed
    • website
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  • Pin 3 on the map:Fatso's

    Café · 210 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • hours listed
    • phone
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  • Pin 4 on the map:Greyhound Inn

    Pub · 380 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • hours listed
    • phone
    • website
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  • Pin 5 on the map:Olde Rose & Crown

    Pub · 650 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • hours listed
    • website
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  • Pin 6 on the map:Marg's

    Café · 10 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • hours listed
    • phone
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The places and their tags are from OpenStreetMap.

No Twistly drives use the B5066 yet. Plan the first one.

Near the B5066

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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