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Scotland

B8073

  • Water
  • Moorland
  • Forest
Plan a drive around it
© MapTiler © OpenStreetMap
7 measured points along the stretch, threaded approximately — the dots are where the B8073 was scored, and the dashed line between them is not its shape. Numbered pins are the stops listed below.
Length
10.0 km
How curvy
Relentlessly twisty
29% curviness — Among the most tightly curved roads in the database.
Curvy metres
2,878
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)96%
  • Other limits (each under 5%)4%

Speed limits are inferred from road class for 53% of this stretch — nobody has mapped a limit on those parts of the B8073, so the national limit for the class is assumed.

Runs past

  • Dervaig·village·10 m
  • Calgary·village·1.8 km
  • Achnadrish·hamlet·10 m
  • Torr·hamlet·10 m
  • Penmore·hamlet·10 m
  • Druim Fhionnghail·hamlet·520 m

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 B8073 yet. Plan the first one.

Near the B8073

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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