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Glengorm Road

C47

  • Moorland
  • Forest
Plan a drive around it
Length
7.2 km
How curvy
Relentlessly twisty
26% curviness — Among the most tightly curved roads in the database.
Curvy metres
1,831
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 C47, so the national limit for the class is assumed.

Runs past

  • Tobermory·town·220 m
  • Dervaig·village·1.9 km
  • Sorne·hamlet·10 m
  • Glengorm·hamlet·10 m
  • Erray·hamlet·30 m
  • Torr·hamlet·560 m

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

Worth stopping at

  • Pin 1 on the map:Spice of Mull

    Restaurant · 240 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • hours listed
    • website
    Open in Google Maps ↗

  • Pin 2 on the map:The Glass Barn - Isle of Mull Cheese

    Café · 10 m from the road, approximately

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

  • Pin 3 on the map:Glengorm Coffee Shop

    Café · 10 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • hours listed
    • phone
    • website
    Open in Google Maps ↗

  • Pin 4 on the map:Cafe Fish

    Restaurant · 440 m from the road, approximately

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

  • Pin 5 on the map:Macgochans

    Pub · 210 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • hours listed
    Open in Google Maps ↗

  • Pin 6 on the map:Macgochans

    Restaurant · 220 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • outdoor seating
    • hours listed
    Open in Google Maps ↗

The places and their tags are from OpenStreetMap.

No Twistly drives use the C47 yet. Plan the first one.

Near the C47

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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