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Matlock 5: Bamford Clough, Britain’s new steepest uphill

Posted on 10 September 202115 September 2021 by Rob Ainsley

I learned with excitement yesterday that Bamford Clough – a hitherto obscure, steep, rough, unsurfaced byway taking to the skies from the village of Bamford in the Hope Valley – was tarmacked a few days ago, and is now a genuine road.

A road with a signed gradient of 35%, no less, which makes it a possible new holder of the title of Britain’s steepest signed cyclable road uphill. (Ffordd Pen Llech in Harlech is signed 40% but you can’t ride up: it’s one-way down.)

It was, conveniently, only a mile from Mark’s house in Hathersage, so we nipped out after breakfast for a look. We did try to cycle up the fresh, blackberry-jam-coloured asphalt, but the slippery autumn leaves and severe gradient made that comically impossible.

That was quite enough excitement for one trip, and I got a lunchtime train back home to recover.

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