Game: Name that road!

[ColinJ]

Here's the next one...
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Nice!

Like our local Widdop Rd. On steroids. In nicer weather...

 

[robjh]

They all looked pretty similar!

Not quite as impressive a view this next one, but similar weather....

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Hmm, not that much to go on. Looking probably west-ish, a village with a large elongated green, and houses with no obvious regional features. There are places like that from Suffolk through to the Midlands and probably beyond. Why are the cars parked there? Is it an event, or a popular pub just out of sight?

 

[BrumJim]

I'm guessing Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Suffolk, Essex, Hampshire, Berskhire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Sussex (either) or Rutland. Hmm - a bit of a wide net there.

 

[MontyVeda]

Hmm, not that much to go on. Looking probably west-ish, a village with a large elongated green, and houses with no obvious regional features. There are places like that from Suffolk through to the Midlands and probably beyond. Why are the cars parked there? Is it an event, or a popular pub just out of sight?

also on a bus route, and it looks like that could be a beacon being prepared on the green, where the orange thing is?

 

[Tribansman]

Suffolk wasn't too far away, and it's looking South. No event, there is a pub (with an alliterative name) across the green. It is a beacon you can see too.

 

[Trickedem]

pub (with an alliterative name)

Quick check on dictionary.com to see what that means.

 

[BrumJim]

Suffolk wasn't too far away, and it's looking South. No event, there is a pub (with an alliterative name) across the green. It is a beacon you can see too.

Cambridgeshire or Norfolk, then?

 

[Tribansman]

Cambridgeshire or Norfolk, then?

Yep, one of those

 

[ColinJ]

No event, there is a pub (with an alliterative name) across the green.

Quick check on dictionary.com to see what that means.

I remember my English Literature teacher explaining it 50 years ago...

Anthem for Doomed Youth BY WILFRED OWEN

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
— Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,—
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.

What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Looks like Barrington

 

[ColinJ]

Aargh - formatting on a phone!!! I WILL fix it!

PS Finally sorted out...

I will get back to road guessing once I have the faintest idea where one is!

 

[robjh]

Looks like Barrington

I think the green is too narrow for Barrington, but it certainly has the look of numerous villages in this part of the world.

 

[Trickedem]

I have been looking for a Beacon Map unsuccessfully.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

The alliterative pub name surely makes it easy, thinks I.

Alas, a brief glance at a list of Cambridgeshire pubs yields about a dozen without getting beyond B...

http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/results.shtml/county/Cambridgeshire/page/2/

 

[Tribansman]

The alliterative pub name surely makes it easy, thinks I.

Alas, a brief glance at a list of Cambridgeshire pubs yields about a dozen without getting beyond B...

http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/results.shtml/county/Cambridgeshire/page/2/

It's Norfolk. And it's in the first half of the alphabet