The Burway
3130.7 m · net rise 267.2 m · total ascent 285.6 m · overall 8.5% · evidence quality A (high) · Church Stretton · Shropshire · share
Shape: sustained — 41% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 656 m.
Matches: British National Hill Climb Championship, 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs (Simon Warren) — Venue 1989 (as "The Burway").
Gradient ladder what do windows mean?
| Window | Maximum | Located at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 m (diagnostic) | 33% | 3021–3023 m | |
| 3 m (diagnostic) | ≈28% | 300–303 m | under overhead cover |
| 5 m | 24% | 1246–1251 m | |
| 10 m | 20% | 1242–1252 m | |
| 20 m | 19.0% | 449–469 m | |
| 25 m | 18.6% | 434–459 m | |
| 50 m | 18.3% | 419–469 m | |
| 100 m | 17.9% | 368–468 m |
Measured on the mapped road line; moving the line 1 m either way reads 18.4–20.4% over 25 m.
≈ appears only on the 2–3 m diagnostic rows here, which does not lower the evidence quality: those windows are never headline values or ranking keys, so the letter reflects the standard (5–100 m) windows — which are clean on this climb.
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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: Held from rankings 2026-09-04 (D21 C, hidden-steeper re-line): re-lined onto the bench the EA point cloud finds, but under the traced line's 25 m maximum the cloud reads flank, ambiguous or absent — not a plain road bed — so neither the published nor the re-lined number is verified. Published number stands; off the rankings until a cross-section look.
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%
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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).
Measurement card
| Elevation | Environment Agency — EA LIDAR Composite DTM 1m (2022) |
|---|---|
| Resolution / CRS | 1.0 m grid, EPSG:27700; sampled every 1.0 m, bilinear interpolation |
| Tiles | SO4090.tif, SO4590.tif |
| Road centreline | OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract), snapshot 2026-08-26T20:22:15Z |
| Quality status | evidence quality A; caveated windows: canopy or structure |
| Analysis | OCL 0.1.0, analysis 0.1.0, run fame-backfill-batch-260828, calculated 2026-08-28 |
Provenance
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