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Public · Starts near Macclesfield
Twistly pickCat and Fiddle Moorland Loop
Climb across high open moorland along the sweeping curves of the A537. Narrower stretches on Birtles Lane and the undulating B5470 complete the circuit through the surrounding hills.
- How curvy
- Properly twisty
- 40% curvy share
- Distance
- 46.7 km
- Driving time
- 1 hr
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A third or more of the drive is in corners, one following the next. 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 21% — 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
- Motorways
- Avoided
- Asked for
- 45 km
- Stops found
- 5
- Speed limits
Limits: mostly national limit · 39% in 30slimits partly inferred
- Width
- Narrow
- Surface
- 42% sealed
Finishes where it started
Kept off the route
On target — this came out at 46.7 km
Mapped within 500 m of the line
Limits are inferred from the road's class for 49% of this drive — nobody has mapped a limit there, so the national limit for the class is assumed.
47% of the drive · 16% single-track, 26% standard, 10% wide
Runs past
MacclesfieldSutton Lane EndsLangleyPrestburyOver AlderleyBollington
Settlements within about a kilometre of the drive, in the order it reaches them. From OpenStreetMap.
Along the way
Coffee Beans Cafe and Takeaway
Café · 160 m off the route
parking · outdoor seating · hours listed
At the start
The Nose Coffee
Café · 30 m off the route
parking · hours listed · website
13% along
The Coast
Restaurant · 10 m off the route
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 · Alan Murray-Rust · CC BY-SA 2.0 
Near this route · Jonathan Billinger · CC BY-SA 2.0 
Near this route · Jonathan Billinger · CC BY-SA 2.0
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