Motorcycle Ride Planner · Great Britain

B5289 — Loweswater to Grange

Great Britain · measured from OpenStreetMap geometry

B5289 runs 12 miles between Loweswater and Grange. We counted 616 corners along it, which works out at 51.3 a mile — corner after corner with no let-up. It runs past mountain peaks, cliffs, a waterfall and a mountain pass. That puts it in the busiest tenth of every road we have measured in Great Britain, where the median is 23.4 a mile.

Ridden together with B5289 and A5086 it makes about 12 more miles of the same kind of road.

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Worth stopping for

• 0.7 miattractionMillican Dalton Cave
• 0.8 miviewpointStanding Stones
• 0.9 miviewpointSalt Spring
• 1.2 miwaterfallLodore Falls
• 1.4 miattractionRosthwaite Stepping Stones
• 1.5 miwaterfallMoss Force
• 1.5 miwaterfallScaleclose Force
• 1.5 miviewpointSurprise View Point
• 1.8 miviewpointGoldscope East Mine - Grand Level
• 1.9 miwaterfallAshness Bridge

Roads near here

• B52893 mi away · 332 corners
• A50867 mi away · 172 corners
• A508611 mi away · 279 corners
• Cold Fell12 mi away · 224 corners
• Hardknott & Wrynose Passes13 mi away · 75 corners
• B530718 mi away · 210 corners

How we measured it

Corner counts come from the road's own geometry in OpenStreetMap, not from ratings or votes. Every bend above a threshold of curvature is counted once, so two roads can be compared directly. Nothing here is crowdsourced and nobody paid to appear.