Yeh that's bit I know very little about, the traffic.Kelvin wrote:Does that route bring you onto the A52 just west of Derby? The trouble is you have to get by Derby and Nottingham and the A52 will be bloody busy I expect. That said, the A52 is quite quick once you've cleared Nottingham and quite nice to drive too. The problem is it brings you out quite far south of where we want to be.BigD wrote:I was thinking of definitely avoiding the M62 and going south like you. I had looked at a route via Derby (passes Donington Park), Nottingham and Lincoln but there are about a million and one ways of going.Kelvin wrote: Just looking at routes a minute ago. It's a fairly long drive no matter which way you go. I'm going to avoid the up and down route via the motorways and head due east on the A54 across the Peak District. Shortest route by some 30 odd miles but probably over 3 hours driving.
I'm going to head due east over the peaks for sure. It avoids all the built up areas until Lincoln for the most part.
The road I looked at was the A50 from Stoke on Trent (so heading south initially) to Derby then A46 from Nottingham area to Lincoln then Lincoln to Louth. I don't really know the area at all but thought it would be nice to drive passed Donington Park (three circuits in one day? ).
It's 150 miles and 3hrs 30mins but that will depend on traffic. I guess leaving slightly later would miss some of the traffic and hopefully by the time I got to Derby it would be Ok. But as I say I don't know the area at all.
