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Public · Starts near Ambleside
Twistly pickLakeland Waters via A592 and A5074
The A592 tracks right along the water before the route heads across the rolling country of the A5074 and A593. Tree-lined tarmac gives way to sweeping shoreline outlooks and tight, winding curves.
- How curvy
- Relentlessly twisty
- 46% curvy share
- Distance
- 64.8 km
- Driving time
- 1 hr 1
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Corners nearly the whole way, with barely a straight to rest on — as curved as drives get. Curvy share is how much of the drive is on genuinely curved road, measured on the finished route — including every connecting road it took to get there, not just the good bits. The wording above is cut against real drives: flat-country runs measure in the teens, a good Peak or Wales drive in the thirties, and the best loops in the country in the high forties.
More numbers
Curviness 24% — the length-weighted mean of how tightly the route curves, where 100% would be continuous hairpins. It rewards sharpness where curvy share rewards sustained curve, which is why the two differ.
What to expect
- Shape
- Loop
- Character
- Water and coast
- Motorways
- Avoided
- Asked for
- 60 km
- Stops found
- 4
- Speed limits
Limits: mostly national limit · 24% in 30s
- Width
- Standard
Finishes where it started
The kind of road it was built from
Kept off the route
On target — this came out at 64.8 km
Mapped within 500 m of the line
What is on the poles along the drive, by share of its length.
74% of the drive · 5% single-track, 21% narrow
Runs past
AmblesideTroutbeck BridgeWindermereBowness on WindermereWinsterSkelwith Bridge
Settlements within about a kilometre of the drive, in the order it reaches them. From OpenStreetMap.
Along the way
The Trattoria
Restaurant · 110 m off the route
parking · food · outdoor seating · hours listed
13% along
Villa Positano
Restaurant · 10 m off the route
parking · food · hours listed · phone
30% along
Jintana Thai Restaurant
Near this route
Photographs taken within about a kilometre of this drive, from Wikimedia Commons. They are near the route — we have no evidence any of them shows it.
Near this route · David Pickersgill · CC BY-SA 2.0 
Near this route · Peter Smyly · CC BY-SA 2.0 
Near this route · Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0
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