Rosedale Chimney, North Yorkshire
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What Britain's climbs lack in distance, they make up for in gradient (Pic: Shirokazan, via Flickr Creative Commons)
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The Rosedale Chimney is as easy on the eye as it is brutal on the legs (Pic: Mike Dobson, via Flickr Creative Commons)
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Ffordd Penllech in Harlech is the UK's steepest road (Pic: Stephen Elwyn Roddick, via Wiki Commons)
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Jenkin Road was the final climb of stage two of this year's Tour de France (Pic: Marc, via Flickr Creative Commons)
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Vale Street in Bristol is the UK's steepest residential street (Pic: Sam Saunders, via Flickr Creative Commons)
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A sign at the bottom of Porlock Hill warns of the gradient to come (Pic: Stephen McKay, via Creative Commons)
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Clovelly is traffic-free but a private access route allows cyclists to have a slice of the action (Pic: Graham Alton, via Flickr Creative Commons)
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This brutal hairpin makes Penbarras one of the toughest of the north Welsh hills (Pic: SimonPix, via Flickr Creative Commons)
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Great Dun Fell is both long and steep at 7.45km and 7.7 per cent (Pic: Phil Catterall via Wikimedia Commons)
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York's Hill hosts the annual Catford hill climb, the world's oldest bike race (pic: Bareknuckleyellow, via Flickr Creative Commons)
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Hardknott Pass is the most brutal of the grueling Lake District passes (pic: Eifion, via Flickr Creative Commons)
Rosedale Chimney, North Yorkshire
Rosedale Chimney has a fearsome reputation and with good reason, with the rough road surface and brutal gradient having claimed many a victim.
A double hairpin sends riders skyward, with the second maxing out at 33 per cent and leaving riders struggling to maintain momentum.
That punishing slope continues as the road straightens with the only relief offered once the gradient relaxed to a ‘gentle’ one-in-six near the top of the climb.
In total, the brutal ascent rises 179m in 1.4km, with the average gradient of 14 per cent every bit as painful as it sounds.
Vital statistics
Length: 1.4km
Elevation: 179m
Average gradient: 14 per cent
Maximum gradient: 33 per cent