Manchester to Notts - Woodhead? Snakes Pass?

[aR53GP]

Folks

I need to get from Manchester to Nottinghamshire next week, and now that I've got something fun to drive I'd like to find an interesting route!

I'd usually go over Woodhead but it's mostly camera'd now. Any alternatives? I've not done Snakes Pass for years. Is that still fun?

[aR53GP]

popeyewhite said:

I'd go Macclesfield - Buxton - Bakewell - Matlock - Notts. There's cameras on the Cat but if you go first right after the layby/first camera - stay on the road all the way down to the bottom and back up you'll emerge just before the pub and won't get nicked.

plasticpig said:

I would do Macclesfield then A523 all the way to Ashbourne. From there it really depends where you want to go to in Nottingham.

AdiT said:

Yes the Snake is still good. Now a 50 limit but no fixed cameras; There are regularly mobile cameras though. The favorite location is just as you approach the start of Ladybower Res' on the long straight. Beware of the new 30 zone for a short distance, about a mile after the SnakeInn, where the regular subsidence happens.

terry tibbs said:

personally, if you can, i'd get the train

Thanks all.

It's actually Retford I am going to, so this route seems to make sense?

Train isn't practical really.

I haven't driven the Cat & Fiddle before. I didn't realise it was so 'dangerous'.

[aR53GP]

We survived! Unfortunately it was still pitch black when I got to Macclesfield at 6:30 this morning, and with me not knowing the road I was taking it really easy. Hopefully I can do it in the other direction tomorrow afternoon and stretch the car's legs a bit more.