The road measures 17.36 miles long and would take a car obeying speed limits 37 minutes to travel its length.
The B3162 is a B Road and is located in the Zone 3 Highways Region.
This is a true long-distance route, journeying through numerous towns like CHARD, Forton, Winsham, Thorncombe, Horn Ash, Greenham, Drimpton, Broadwindsor, Stoke Abbott, North Bowood, Bowood, Salwayash, Dottery, BRIDPORT, and West Allington.
The road connects Somerset and Dorset.