B6047 Melton Mowbray to Market Harborough
Discussion
I was up in Notts yesterday, getting a service on the Scooby at TSL and I thought I'd find an interesting looking route on the map rather than M1 south bound.
There's some lovely little roads around Keyworth where TSL are based which I had a lot of fun on, wending my way down roughly alongside the A606 to Melton Mowbray where I picked up the B6047...
I was on this road for ages before I saw another car, and despite it's many twists and turns and rollercoaster like rises and drops (the sort of stuff that would have made my girlfriend sick had she been in the passenger seat) there's a lot of good overtaking opportunites on account of the low or non existent hedges, so was never held up for long.
Made a nice change from most of the roads in Essex which are all high hedges so you can't see too far round corners which cuts down not only on overtaking but safe cornering speed (thinking about being able to stop in the distance you can see).
When compared to my favourite roads 'back home' which I took in on the route - Blake Hall Lane just off the A414 near Chipping Ongar and Childerditch Lane that runs from near Warley, the otherside of Brentwood to Ongar, onto the A127 - the surface and view was excellent.
Childerditch was recently resurfaced - but with the black stuff that seems to suck all the light away at night, but Blake Hall Lane is still as potted and terrible as ever. One section had all the pot holes filled in with tarmac, but it was raised over the rest of the road surface so it wasn't a great improvement! Still, shoddy surfaces are all part of the fun in a Scooby.
There's some lovely little roads around Keyworth where TSL are based which I had a lot of fun on, wending my way down roughly alongside the A606 to Melton Mowbray where I picked up the B6047...
I was on this road for ages before I saw another car, and despite it's many twists and turns and rollercoaster like rises and drops (the sort of stuff that would have made my girlfriend sick had she been in the passenger seat) there's a lot of good overtaking opportunites on account of the low or non existent hedges, so was never held up for long.
Made a nice change from most of the roads in Essex which are all high hedges so you can't see too far round corners which cuts down not only on overtaking but safe cornering speed (thinking about being able to stop in the distance you can see).
When compared to my favourite roads 'back home' which I took in on the route - Blake Hall Lane just off the A414 near Chipping Ongar and Childerditch Lane that runs from near Warley, the otherside of Brentwood to Ongar, onto the A127 - the surface and view was excellent.
Childerditch was recently resurfaced - but with the black stuff that seems to suck all the light away at night, but Blake Hall Lane is still as potted and terrible as ever. One section had all the pot holes filled in with tarmac, but it was raised over the rest of the road surface so it wasn't a great improvement! Still, shoddy surfaces are all part of the fun in a Scooby.
Fort Jefferson said:
puggit said:
looking on a map - that B6047 looks fun 
It is, I used to ride it a lot. Then I wrote my bike off on it.
I was just about to say, I live near to this stretch of road and its lethal, the local farmers are forever pulling cars out of ditches and there have been a number of fatalities over the years.
Alfahorn said:
Fort Jefferson said:
puggit said:
looking on a map - that B6047 looks fun
It is, I used to ride it a lot. Then I wrote my bike off on it.
I was just about to say, I live near to this stretch of road and its lethal, the local farmers are forever pulling cars out of ditches and there have been a number of fatalities over the years.
Myself and some of the other Northants regulars discovered this early this year.
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