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west Wales and the south-west

Ffordd Llanelwy

B5381

Also runs asFfordd Rufeinig
Plan a drive around it
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2 measured points along the stretch, threaded approximately — the dots are where the B5381 was scored, and the dashed line between them is not its shape. Numbered pins are the stops listed below.
Length
3.1 km
How curvy
Relentlessly twisty
25% curviness — Among the most tightly curved roads in the database.
Curvy metres
777
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.

  • 20 mph11%
  • national limit (60)89%

Speed limits are inferred from road class for 89% of this stretch — nobody has mapped a limit on those parts of the B5381, so the national limit for the class is assumed.

Runs past

  • Betws-yn-Rhos·village·10 m
  • Rhyd-y-foel·village·1.8 km
  • Llanfair Talhaearn·village·2.0 km
  • Twll Llwynog·hamlet·1.8 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 B5381 yet. Plan the first one.

Near the B5381

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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