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the North Pennines

Park Bank

B6306

  • Moorland
  • Forest
Plan a drive around it
© MapTiler © OpenStreetMap
5 measured points along the stretch, threaded approximately — the dots are where the B6306 was scored, and the dashed line between them is not its shape. Numbered pins are the stops listed below.
Length
4.0 km
How curvy
Properly twisty
16% curviness — Tight, sustained bends — well above the average road.
Curvy metres
648
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.

  • national limit (60)100%

Speed limits are inferred from road class for 100% of this stretch — nobody has mapped a limit on those parts of the B6306, so the national limit for the class is assumed.

Runs past

  • Blanchland·village·10 m
  • Baybridge·hamlet·840 m
  • Ruffside·hamlet·1.1 km
  • Newbiggin·hamlet·1.6 km
  • Hunstanworth·hamlet·2.0 km

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

Worth stopping at

  • Pin 1 on the map:Lord Crewe Arms Hotel

    Pub · 10 m from the road, approximately

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

  • Pin 2 on the map:The White Monk Tearoom

    Café · 10 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • outdoor seating
    Open in Google Maps ↗

The places and their tags are from OpenStreetMap.

No Twistly drives use the B6306 yet. Plan the first one.

Near the B6306

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.