(CNN)A county council in the UK has caused a stir by announcing a 41-mile detour for motorists next week — as a result of just 165 feet of roadworks.
For five days, traffic will be diverted from the Dorset village of Godmanstone into the neighboring county of Somerset in order to avoid the works on the A352 highway.
Drivers will be treated to a highly scenic route past Cerne Abbas — home to the famous hillside chalk figure the Cerne Abbas Giant — up to the picturesque town of Sherborne and onto Yeovil in Somerset, a former centre of the English leather-making industry, before looping back down to the A352.
