The Snake Road is one of the most famous – and notorious – highways in Britain. Here Howard Smith, a retired lecturer who has written a superb history of the road, tells its remarkable story.
THE A57 Snake Road links Sheffield and Glossop, 25 miles (40km) apart across the spine of the Pennines between Kinder and Bleaklow, reaching some 1,6667 feet (512m) at its highest point…