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The A54 road is a road linking Chester in Cheshire, England with Buxton in Derbyshire. According to a report done by the Road Safety Foundation for the European Road Assessment Programme (EuroRAP), the A54 is one of the most dangerous roads in the UK, second only to the A682 in Lancashire.

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The A682 is a  country road that runs between junction 13 of the M65 and Long Preston, a small village in the Yorkshire Dales. Is the worst road in England as it has claimed almost 100 fatalities over the last ten years.



Anchor is a remote hamlet in Shropshire, England, located at grid reference SO175851. The hamlet is the most westerly place in Shropshire.

A recent survey has revealed that Swindon's notorious Magic Roundabout system is the seventh most feared road junction in England. We look back to when it was opened in 1972 with a vintage Points West TV report.



Buttertubs Pass is a spectacular high mountain road which leads across the moors from Muker and Thwaite in Swaledale to the hamlet of Hardraw (famous for the nearby waterfall of Hardraw Force) and Hawes in Wensleydale.



The Carter Bar is the point at which the A68 crosses the England-Scotland border and forms a pass located at the top of Redesdale in the Cheviot Hills at an altitude of 418 metres (1,371 ft).



Clee Hill Village is a village in Shropshire, England. It lies on the slope of Titterstone Clee Hill and, lying between 340 and 380 metres above sea level.

A woman has been rescued after the car she was driving got stuck teetering on the edge of a 300ft cliff at St Agnes Head in Cornwall for several hours.

 

About 9.3 miles (15.0 km) to the west of Porlock Hill, the A39 starts its equivalent descent from the hills of Exmoor, England in the Exmoor National Park.

UK penalties for driving under the influence of even minimal amounts of alcohol or drugs are stiff and often result in prison sentences. In contrast to U.S. and continental European traffic, which moves on the right side of the road, UK traffic moves on the left.


 

The Fosse Way was a Roman road in England that linked Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum) in South West England to Lincoln (Lindum Colonia) in the East Midlands, via Ilchester (Lindinis), Bath (Aquae Sulis), Cirencester (Corinium) and Leicester (Ratae Corieltauvorum).

 

Gibraltar is a British territory located just south of Spain and is less than three square miles. The Gibraltar Airport is the closest airport to a city center (only about 1/3 of a mile) in the world and only five airlines currently serve the airport.


 

Gravelly Hill Interchange, better known by its nickname Spaghetti Junction, is junction 6 of the M6 motorway where it meets the A38(M) Aston Expressway in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

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At a height of 2,782 feet, Great Dun Fell is the second-highest hill in England's Pennines, lying two miles south along the watershed from Cross Fell, its higher neighbour.

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Hardknott Pass is a high mountain pass pass in the region of Cumbria, England, in the Lake District National Park. The road approaching the pass is one of the steepest roads in Europe with a gradient of 33%. The road becomes specially dangerous for the brakes on a couple of particularly steep turns and it’s one of the most challenging sections of road in England.



Harthope Moss (also known as Chapel Fell), at an elevation of 627 m. above the sea level, is a mountain pass in the English Pennines. The pass divides Weardale to the east and Cumbria to the west.

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