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BACKWELL HILLCLIMB | |||||||||||
Description | First used by the Bristol Motorcycle and Light Car Club, it was used in the 1930s for speed events and (I’m pretty sure) saw the first event for the legendary Freikaiserwagen. | ||||||||||
Location | Backwell NSM - North Somerset (unitary authority) - England | ||||||||||
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Latitude - Longitude | + 51°24'00" - 2°44'49" 51.4 -2.746944 | ||||||||||
UTM Coordinates | X = 517603.712 - Y = 5694338.311 - Zone 30U | ||||||||||
Aerial photo / Map (*) | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||||||||
Altitude AMSL | 127 m - 417 ft | ||||||||||
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Car Circuit | YES | ||||
Motorbike circuit | YES | ||||
Type | Hillclimb | ||||
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Last update of this page | December 22nd 2009 | ||||
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length | 523 m | 1714 ft | 0.325 mi | Calculated from aerial photo (*) | (2) |
Difference in level (approx) | 46 m | 151 ft | to be verified |
Backwell Hillclimb
Due to technical problems, temporarily it’s no longer possible to see the circuits on Google Maps embedded in the current page.
This feature will be restored as soon as I figure out how to do (any help would be appreciated!)
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- milermeter.com
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(Map shown here above can show at the same time all eventual layouts drawn. If you want to see only some of them, please go to Google Maps or Google Earth, by clicking on its own link)
Updates | |||||||
Date | Track layout | Years | Description by | Map by | Thanks to | Note | |
December 22nd 2009 |   | Guido de Carli | andylaurence | andylaurence | New | Description with map | |
Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list |