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Bowes Rd Climb

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Bowes Road, Startforth, County Durham, North East, England, DL12 9DY, United Kingdom
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Climb Profile

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Climb Stats

Combined metric and imperial stats for quick route planning.

Climb categoryCategory 4
Distance5.03 km / 3.13 miles
Elevation gain117.7 m / 386 ft
Average gradient2.3%
Maximum gradient8.5%
Elevation high292 m / 958 ft
Elevation low173.6 m / 570 ft
Climb difficulty score11,771.6

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Climb Rank

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This climb ranks 465,226th out of 2,710,652 worldwide cycling climbs.

🧮

Ranked as the 31,856th most difficult cycling climb of all 332,744 climbs in United Kingdom.

📉

Places 21,980th out of 268,497 cycling climbs in England.

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Ranks 516th out of 3,556 cycling climbs in County Durham.

🏵️

A local climb of note, this is the 5th most difficult cycling climb (out of 13 climbs) in Startforth.

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