Highest Road?
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Highest Road?
What is the highest road in England and the highest road in Wales? I define 'road' as something at least marked yellow on an OS map!
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Donkey's years ago, one of the cycling handbooks (the sort of thing you used to read if you arrived at the YH a bit early and too cream-crackered to explore) used to list the A 689 between Alston to Wearhead as the highest A class road in England, I think. I know that wasn't the question but that's the nearest I have.
There is a village in N Wales on the A 525 bteween Wrecsam (AKA Wrexham) and Llandegla with a sign saying it is the highest in Wales.
Even less connected with your question, Wanlockhead YH ( is it still there?) used to claim to be in the highest village in Scotland.
Are you entereing a pub quiz?
There is a village in N Wales on the A 525 bteween Wrecsam (AKA Wrexham) and Llandegla with a sign saying it is the highest in Wales.
Even less connected with your question, Wanlockhead YH ( is it still there?) used to claim to be in the highest village in Scotland.
Are you entereing a pub quiz?
There is a superb book called 50 quirky bike rides for family and friends, free from freightlining juggernauts and white van road rage, in eco-friendly, carbon neutral, naturally blissful, thrills and hills, on a hunch, over lunch, brooks beckon, waves lap, wind whizzes through tunnels of love and spectacular sweeps of bridges and gorges, the bendiest, whizziest, twistiest, zingiest, prettiest, peakiest, bumpyest, bounciest, hilliest, rockiest, bestest, bestest, bike rides in England and Wales. Ever.
The book lists Great Dun Fell in this category.
BUY THE BOOK - its full of routes like this.
The book lists Great Dun Fell in this category.
BUY THE BOOK - its full of routes like this.
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Aye, Harthope Head from Langdon Beck in Teesdale to St John's Chapel in Weardale and Killhope Cross from Alston in Tynedale to Weardale (A689) are both listed as 627m. They're the highest through roads in England. Just up the road is Coldberry End, though you wouldn't get most cars over it.
My claim to fame? I've ridden all three
More info here:
http://www.4x4xplore.com/about/highroadsindex2.html
Note the section on low roads: I've ridden along one of those too...
Glenshee, on the A93 in the Cairngorms, is listed as the UK's "highest through tarred public road". 670m. I haven't ridden that. Yet.
My claim to fame? I've ridden all three
More info here:
http://www.4x4xplore.com/about/highroadsindex2.html
Note the section on low roads: I've ridden along one of those too...
Glenshee, on the A93 in the Cairngorms, is listed as the UK's "highest through tarred public road". 670m. I haven't ridden that. Yet.
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thirdcrank wrote:Cunobelin
You have probably achieved the record ( or the most buzzing in your ears) for the longest link ever
cranky wrote:...and I thought the idea was to make links shorter
I know - but the book title is so wonderfully eccentric that it would be criminal to shorten it
It also describes the contents precisely
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Cunobelin wrote:There is * confirmation for Gt Dun Fell at 848 m as being the highest (Tarmacked) road in Great Britain!
*Short enough link?
It isn't a public road. It is a public bridleway that the owner happens to have tarmac-ed for their own convenience..... so does it really count from the OP's perspective?