10 Weirdest and Most Isolated Country Roads in England

A Roman military road from AD 110 that's still the only way through. A causeway the North Sea closes twice a day, with stone refuge boxes for drivers who got the tide tables wrong. A South Yorkshire bypass where two serving police officers filed paperwork in 1987 about a robed figure they both saw on the construction site. England has 250,000 miles of public road, and ten of them are something else entirely. In this video, we explore: → Hardknott Pass in Cumbria, built by the Roman army in AD 110 to supply Hardknott Fort, with a one-in-three gradient and a view of the Isle of Man 100 miles away from the descent → The Holy Island causeway in Northumberland, where the North Sea closes the road twice a day on a posted schedule and still strands 10 to 20 vehicles every year → The Burway in Shropshire, a single-track road with no barriers and a sheer drop, where a Victorian clergyman nearly died in 1865 and wrote a bestseller about it → Rosedale Chimney Bank in the North York Moors, named after a 100-foot mining chimney demolished in 1972, with a climb cyclists call the Chain Breaker → The A537 Cat and Fiddle, identified as the most dangerous road in Britain in 8 out of 12 annual reports between 2002 and 2013, with 44 serious or fatal crashes in five years on a 7.5-mile stretch → Snake Pass on the A57, designed by Thomas Telford in 1818, where the Pennines have been documented moving the road for 90 years and 30,000 vehicles still use it every week → Porlock Hill in Somerset, a 25 percent gradient where the smell of burning brakes drifts down into the village below and two escape lanes are built into the descent for runaway vehicles → The Stocksbridge Bypass in South Yorkshire, opened on Friday the 13th of May 1988 after PC Dick Ellis and PC John Beet both filed official reports about a robed figure they witnessed during construction in 1987 → The Trough of Bowland in Lancashire, the route the Pendle witches took to their trial at Lancaster Castle in 1612, with the Grey Stone of Trough still standing at the head of the pass Subscribe for more hidden corners of Britain you weren't taught in school.