West Midlands, Where Do You Drive?

[SarlechS]

i live in solihull, i'm looking for some decent roads situated across or close to the west-midlands, where do you guys go for a drive?

i drive around hampton, catherine de barnes, dickens heath and sometimes tamworth..is there anywhere else with some quite twisty roads?

[Accelebrate]

Lots of good stuff around Bridgnorth, usually head out that way if I'm just going for a drive.

[stikz2000]

Try up lickey hills sides at night time the road are steep narrow and no street lighting .. n the view is amazing like ur lookin at new york but its birmingham!!

[z06tim]

There's loads of good roads in Warwickshire. Try the road from Hockley Heath to Warwick (through Lapworth). If you get over towards Leamington and Warwick there are no end of good roads. Try the Fosse Way. Or the A452 to Southam and pretty much all the way to the M1. When in Southam try the road to Banbury - forgot the name. Or on the north side of Leamington there's plenty of good roads around Baginton, Stoneleigh and Princethorpe - You occasionally see a Jaguar test driver on those roads.

[D4VE 3LL]

I live in Bromsgrove

stikz2000 said:

Try up lickey hills sides at night time the road are steep narrow and no street lighting .. n the view is amazing like ur lookin at new york but its birmingham!!

It's a 30 from Bromsgrove with the possibility of speed cameras and then a 40 up a very steep hill from Longbridge.

If country lanes are your thing then most places in Worcestershire are good. I tend to go the Bridgenorth way if I go to Wales - is a good litle run in the early morning. Or if your feeling adventurous and a lot of time try heading to Ombersley near Droitwich and then take the A44 to rhayader then the mountain road to aberyswyth and then back or head north and back through Bridgenorth. FUN FUN FUNNNN!

[smiller]

B4364 Bridgnorth to Ludlow

Starter for 10!

[cheeky_chops]

z06tim said:

Try the road from Hockley Heath to Warwick (through Lapworth).... Or the A452 to Southam and pretty much all the way to the M1. When in Southam try the road to Banbury - forgot the name. Or on the north side of Leamington there's plenty of good roads around Baginton, Stoneleigh and Princethorpe - You occasionally see a Jaguar test driver on those roads.

above.

here is a good one, Welsh road from Cubbington to Southam

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.285592...

Edited by cheeky_chops on Monday 2nd February 14:01

[SarlechS]

thanks guys i'll work my way down this list when the weather gets a bit better.

[99hjhm]

z06tim said:

There's loads of good roads in Warwickshire. Try the road from Hockley Heath to Warwick (through Lapworth). If you get over towards Leamington and Warwick there are no end of good roads. Try the Fosse Way. Or the A452 to Southam and pretty much all the way to the M1. When in Southam try the road to Banbury - forgot the name. Or on the north side of Leamington there's plenty of good roads around Baginton, Stoneleigh and Princethorpe - You occasionally see a Jaguar test driver on those roads.

I live in Solihull too, work in Stratford.

The Lapworth road is good,very twisty, and you wont need to break any speed limits.

There are many roads around Lapworth towards warwick and Stratford, but they do bite hard, seen loads of smashes.

[Nurburgsingh]

ditto the old oxford rd from coventry to kidlington.
My fav is still cov to leam through stonleigh.. And best of all its 2min away from me so i can play anytime!
Gaydon to cubbington is good.

[Nick10k]

I'd agree that bridgnorth is good. My parents live there so often around. Bridgnorth to telford via ironbridge is good. Ludlow road good too

Edited by Nick10k on Wednesday 4th February 21:32

[smiller]

A518 between Newport and Stafford is pretty good.

A429 from the M40 to Moreton is also good, as are the B4371 Much Wenlock to Church Stretton and B4368 Morville to Craven Arms.

I planned the route for a Shropshire run-out last year. PM me for the roads.

[silent k]

Nurburgsingh said:

ditto the old oxford rd from coventry to kidlington.
My fav is still cov to leam through stonleigh.. And best of all its 2min away from me so i can play anytime!
Gaydon to cubbington is good.

Cov to leam via stoneleigh is good fun. The couple of corners by the Severn trent works are fun

[chrisga]

Anyone noticed any limits being reduced on these roads mentioned in Warwickshire? If they havent been reduced yet they soon will be (the road from Southam to Banbury will be a 50 limit soon all the way to Oxfordshire border). I have written to our local councillor who said it was to improve safety and better for the environment. More to follow later.

[z06tim]

Yep, Hockley Heath to Warwick was subjected to all manner of speed restrictions, when not so long ago it was national-speed-limit pretty much throughout.

[Who me ?]

Warks CC have had a review of speed limits ,and despite what SENSIBLE councillors said have done their own thing .
http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/Web/corporate/pages... gives some idea of the crass stupidity .
All that is said is by some stupid officer at county hall .

[chrisga]

I have been having a protracted conversation via email with my local councillor on the subject. It turns out he was on the committee that ok'd this almost blanket reduction. I just need to find time to transcribe some of the emails to a format I can put on here.

[Who me ?]

chrisga said:

I have been having a protracted conversation via email with my local councillor on the subject. It turns out he was on the committee that ok'd this almost blanket reduction. I just need to find time to transcribe some of the emails to a format I can put on here.

Had a chat with mine ,as one of the ones trying to knock some sense into the loonies .He's patiently waiting for the worms (that's us ) to turn and vote out this lot,so he can,with a smug grin ,say "I told you ,that some day common sense would prevail "


Think it's time that pressure was put on them to stand up and show their true colours ,especially in time for the next elections .

Edited by Who me ? on Saturday 14th February 19:30

[anotherbrummie]

[quote=Who me ?]Warks CC have had a review of speed limits ,and despite what SENSIBLE councillors said have done their own thing .
http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/Web/corporate/pages... gives some idea of the crass stupidity .
All that is said is by some stupid officer at county hall .


[/quote]

I know they're not financiers, but may I say "what a wunch of bankers".

[BigMans197]

smiller said:

B4371 Much Wenlock to Church Stretton

Feel free to drop by for a cuppa, as you go right past my house.........