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the Lake District

B5289

  • Water
  • Moorland
Plan a drive around it
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58 measured points along the stretch, threaded approximately — the dots are where the B5289 was scored, and the dashed line between them is not its shape. Numbered pins are the stops listed below.
Length
30.5 km
How curvy
Relentlessly twisty
29% curviness — Among the most tightly curved roads in the database.
Curvy metres
8,751
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 mph31%
  • national limit (60)61%
  • Other limits (each under 5%)8%

Runs past

  • Keswick·town·90 m
  • Seatoller·village·10 m
  • Buttermere·village·10 m
  • Borrowdale·village·10 m
  • Rosthwaite·village·40 m
  • Grange·village·120 m

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

Worth stopping at

  • Pin 1 on the map:eS Tapas Bar

    Restaurant · 210 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • outdoor seating
    • accessible
    • hours listed
    • phone
    • website
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  • Pin 2 on the map:The Chalet, Tearooms and Restaurant

    Café · 330 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • outdoor seating
    • hours listed
    • phone
    • website
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  • Pin 3 on the map:The Kingfisher

    Restaurant · 30 m from the road, approximately

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

  • Pin 4 on the map:LB's Pizza House

    Restaurant · 70 m from the road, approximately

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

  • Pin 5 on the map:The Square Orange

    Restaurant · 130 m from the road, approximately

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

  • Pin 6 on the map:Chinty's

    Café · 140 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • outdoor seating
    • hours listed
    • phone
    Open in Google Maps ↗

The places and their tags are from OpenStreetMap.

Part of 7 Twistly drives

None of them are public, so there is nothing to show — but the B5289 is clearly worth a drive. Plan your own.

Near the B5289

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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