Cat and Fiddle Road driving road map

by Sidney van den Boogaard

Twelve miles between Macclesfield and Buxton, and not a dull yard among them. On the Macclesfield side, the A537 strings together an almost unbroken run of sharp, often blind bends before breaking out onto the open moors of the Peak District. At over 500 metres it passes the old inn that gave the road its name, once Britain's second-highest pub. For years it was ranked the most dangerous road in the country; average-speed cameras have kept things in check since 2010–2011. Take it calmly and its beauty finally shows. For the wall of anyone who knows the Peak District from the saddle or the driver's seat.

This work is part of the Petrolhead Roads collection: the world's finest driving and riding roads, from coastal routes and mountain roads to legendary ribbons of curves. Each road is drawn from the real route and finished in the same calm, graphic style, with the elevation profile and, along the bottom, the length, the road number and the facts that made the road famous.

The road is drawn from OpenStreetMap data (© OpenStreetMap contributors) and the profile from Copernicus elevation data. A great gift for anyone who would rather drive a great road than the motorway.