The “Snake Pass” and the M25 - Britain’s best and worst roads
As Britain’s roads prepare to take the strain of a new school term, ‘The Snake Pass’ has been named as the country’s best driving road in a survey by British sportscar manufacturer, Caterham. The A57 from Sheffield to Glossop topped the poll to find the best - and worst - stretches of the 230,000 miles of tarmac that link the United Kingdom. Unsurprisingly, the clockwise section of the M25 between Junction 5 and 21 was voted the worst. Though traffic figures have risen 14% in the last decade, it isn’t all bad, as the survey of over 1,687 of the most travelled Caterham Seven owners revealed.
Respondents highlighted ten stand-out stretches of driving nirvana hidden away from four-lane tailbacks and service station coffee.
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A57 ‘Snake Pass’, Sheffield to Glossop. ‘Over 25 miles of tarmac rollercoaster.’
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A537 ‘Cat & Fiddle road’, Macclesfield to Buxton. ‘Addictively technical but takes no prisoners.’
...and I would agree... I quite often uses Snake head pass, the roads are quite narrow, so no trucks, you do come across tourists, but you could easily overtake them, and on some part of the road are so twisty, even 50mph is too fast!
Cat & fiddle is of course LEGENDARY
