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Originally Posted by Riddler
Murph, looks like one of those roads Jeremey Clarkson form Top Gear always drives on. Love the scenery... & the open roads.
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Hi Riddler, I've never seen it featured on his programme, but I am sure that he really would enjoy it.
One of his favourite roads is only a few miles away from me though. That road is the B6255 that goes from Hawes (pronounced whores) in North Yorkshire. Hawes is the home of
Wensleydale Dairies the makers of the real Wensleydale cheese that is loved by Wallace & Gromit and is in the
Yorkshire Dales National Park it is only a few miles away from where
All Creatures Great And Small was filmed (mostly at Askrigg 7 miles away) and more recently where
Calender Girls was filmed. Itis a beautiful unspoilt little place.
The road is only about 20 miles long but is a fantastic blend of fast straights, sharp corners, sweeping bends, hills, flats, hump backs and good road surface. It is also relatively quiet during the week (at weekends it is a popular biker road) and the police seem to not to bother to much about "ahem" enthusiastic driving. It is a road more suited to a sports car than a 2 ton saloon car, but it is still a nice old run out.
Ingleton at t'other end is a nice place to explore as well, if you enjoy quiet things to do.
From Ingleton it's a 20 mile (high speed, twisty, underused, good A Road - you get my drift) run to
Kendal
the Gateway To The Lake District.
MTC
