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Mitton Road

B6246

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5 measured points along the stretch, threaded approximately — the dots are where the B6246 was scored, and the dashed line between them is not its shape. Numbered pins are the stops listed below.
Length
3.6 km
How curvy
Properly twisty
18% curviness — Tight, sustained bends — well above the average road.
Curvy metres
633
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 mph38%
  • national limit (60)62%

Runs past

  • Whalley·village·430 m
  • Great Mitton·village·10 m
  • Billington·village·670 m
  • Wiswell·village·1.4 km
  • Brockhall Village·village·1.9 km
  • Little Mitton·hamlet·10 m

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

Worth stopping at

  • Pin 1 on the map:Tastebuds

    Café · 340 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • phone
    • website
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  • Pin 2 on the map:Aspinall Arms

    Restaurant · 10 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • outdoor seating
    • accessible
    • website
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  • Pin 3 on the map:King Street Kitchen

    Restaurant · 350 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • website
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  • Pin 4 on the map:The Swan Hotel

    Pub · 430 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • outdoor seating
    • accessible
    • website
    Open in Google Maps ↗

  • Pin 5 on the map:The Three Fishes

    Restaurant · 10 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • website
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  • Pin 6 on the map:De Lacy Arms

    Pub · 400 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • accessible
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The places and their tags are from OpenStreetMap.

No Twistly drives use the B6246 yet. Plan the first one.

Near the B6246

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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