Coal Road and the High Dales
70 km
36%Curvy share
the Yorkshire Dales
B6270
Guning Lane
- Moorland
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- Length
- 23.9 km
- How curvy
- Properly twisty
- 20% curviness — Tight, sustained bends — well above the average road.
- Curvy metres
- 4,761
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 mph14%
- national limit (60)82%
- Other limits (each under 5%)4%
Runs past
- Reeth·village·10 m
- Grinton·village·10 m
- Low Row·village·10 m
- Gunnerside·village·20 m
- Thwaite·hamlet·10 m
- Kearton·hamlet·10 m
Distances are approximate: the closest this stretch is known to come.
Worth stopping at
Pin 1 on the map:Keld Green Cafe
Café · 10 m from the road, approximately
- parking
- food
- outdoor seating
- hours listed
- phone
Pin 2 on the map:The Punch Bowl
Pub · 10 m from the road, approximately
- parking
- hours listed
- website
Pin 3 on the map:Kearton Tea Room
Café · 10 m from the road, approximately
- parking
- outdoor seating
- hours listed
Pin 4 on the map:The Old School cakery
Café · 10 m from the road, approximately
- parking
- food
- outdoor seating
Pin 5 on the map:Ghyllfoot Tearoom
Café · 10 m from the road, approximately
- parking
- food
The places and their tags are from OpenStreetMap.
Part of 2 Twistly drives
The public ones. The rest are private to the people who planned them.
Near the B6270
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.
Near the B6270 · Nick W · CC BY-SA 2.0 
Near the B6270 · Nick W · CC BY-SA 2.0 
Near the B6270 · Tom Pennington · CC BY-SA 2.0