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Rosedale Chimney Bank

1106.9 m · net rise 148.8 m · overall 13.4% · evidence quality A (high) · Rosedale Abbey · North Yorkshire · share

Shape: sustained — 39% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 427 m.

Matches: 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs (Simon Warren), British National Hill Climb Championship, Wikipedia, BikeRadar, "7 of the steepest UK climbs, ranked" — Venue 1987 — Has its own article (hill pass, North York Moors).

Gradient ladder what do windows mean?

Measured on the mapped road line; moving the line 1 m either way reads 26.6–26.7% over 25 m.

may start earlier Extent detection suggests reviewing where this climb starts/ends.

Map

Check this route yourself: Google Maps route via their router · Street View at the base where coverage exists · geojson.io our exact measured line · OpenTopoMap

No aerial layer here: Britain has no open or government source of aerial photography at road scale — the pan-government APGB imagery is licensed to the public sector only, unlike the LiDAR this survey is measured from. Street View, where it exists, is the visual check.

This climb's data: OCL JSON — the full gradient ladder, quality flags and provenance in the OpenClimb Ladder format.

Access: Signed at the summit (Street View, May 2025): "Dangerous hill — Engage low gear now — Cyclists please dismount" and "Avoid route in wintry conditions"; the Rosedale Abbey foot carries "Max Gradient 1:3, unsuitable for lorries & caravans" (Nov 2021). The road is public; the signs are the highway authority's own caution for the descent.

Measured, not vetted. This page records what the laser record shows about the road's shape — nothing more. Nobody has necessarily ridden or inspected this road for the survey, and a page here is not a recommendation and no guarantee that the road is open, surfaced, rideable or safe. Gates, private sections, missing rights of way and hazards do not show up in elevation data. Check access and conditions on the ground and make your own judgment.

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Route colour = gradient over a 25 m window: <10% 10–20% 20–25% ≥25%

Topo (contours) Vector   © OpenStreetMap contributors · topo tiles © OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA) · vector tiles OpenFreeMap

Profile

The profile and gradient chart share one position — move your pointer over them and the marker follows. Colors are the gradient bands; the shaded span is the steepest 25 m. Any 25 m figure is good to about a point either way (why).

 

Reported values vs. measurement

Measurement card

Provenance

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    10.0,
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  ],
  "elevation_crs": "EPSG:27700",
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  ],
  "calculated_at": "2026-08-30T18:17:41+00:00",
  "road_source": "OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)",
  "road_attribution": "\u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL",
  "osm_pbf_path": "data/cache/pbf/england-2026-08-12.osm.pbf",
  "osm_snapshot": "2026-08-12T20:21:46Z",
  "run_id": "tail-trim-260830",
  "elevation_provider": "Environment Agency",
  "elevation_dataset": "EA LIDAR Composite DTM 1m (2022)",
  "elevation_licence": "Open Government Licence v3 \u2014 \u00a9 Environment Agency",
  "elevation_coverage_id": "13787b9a-26a4-4775-8523-806d13af58fc__Lidar_Composite_Elevation_DTM_1m",
  "elevation_tile_ids": [
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  "climb_origin": "named",
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