HUNDREDS of motorists have been polled to discover the most interesting stretches of road in the UK.
   From a shortlist produced by the Forestry Commission, the A466 Forest of Dean road scored a narrow victory as a result of its rolling, treecovered hillsides, its winding riverside route and the mystical Tintern Abbey.
   Edged into a close second, with its spectacular 'Rigg and Dale' landscape, is the tour through the Dalby Forest within the North York Moors National Park. The network of forest roads, including a nine-mile stretch up to a northerly plateau, is a must for adventure seekers. Note, however, that there is a £5 cost

entry to the Forest Drive.
   Access is via Thornton le Dale on the A170 Helmsley to Scarborough road.
   Also in the top 10 driving routes were the drive to the Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire; 10 miles of the A595 through the Duddon Valley, Cumbria; Cwmcarn Forest Drive in Caerfilli, South Wales; the four-mile drive through Hamsterley Forest, County Durham.
   No less than four of the top routes nominated were in Scotland:
   Dukes Pass - a fantastic 10- mile drive through the heart of the Trossachs, near Stirling; 15 miles of unclassified roads from Cannich to Glen Affric in the Highlands; the route linking Crieff and Strathearn, Perthshire; and the roads between Aberfeldy, Loch Tay and

Glen Lyon in Perthshire, taking the A827 and the B846.
   BRITAIN'S busiest and longest motorway, the M6, has been voted as the most boring road by 3,000 drivers who took part in a survey.
   It is closely followed by the A30 through Devon and Cornwall and then the M1 between London and Hook Moor. A substantial percentage of the drivers polled said they needed to take a break because they felt tired on a boring road journey.
   The company behind the survey, Cornhill Direct, pointed to research by the Loughborough University Sleep Research Centre which reveals that driver sleepiness is to blame for at least 10 per cent of road accidents.
   Here are the top 10

most boring roads as voted for in the survey.
1 M6, stretching 230 miles between Rugby and Carlisle.
2 A30 in Devon and Cornwall.
3 M1 between London and Hook Moor.
4 M25, which carries about 196,000 vehicles daily.
5 A74 'The Cumberland Gap' - a six-mile A road between Carlisle and Gretna.
6 M5 southbound between junctions 15 and 24.
7 A77 in Ayrshire, which has 40 speed cameras over 29 miles.
8 M4 eastbound between Slough and London.
9 A34 between Bloxwich and Cannock.
10 A303, a single carriageway near Andover and Stonehenge

Have you got any boring drives you would like to add to the list?