Game: Name that road!

[Venod]

I think the power station is Chapelcross.

Chapelcross occupies a 92 hectare site on the location of former World War II training airfield, RAF Annan, located 3 km north east of the town of Annan in the Annandale and Eskdale district within the Dumfries and Galloway region of south west Scotland.

A bit busy this morning so good luck to somebody finding the road.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I can confirm...

It is not Chapelcross

The visible chimneys have been demolished since the photo on googlemaps.

But the power station is still a going concern.

 

[Venod]

It is not Chapelcross

Cader Hall ?

 

[figbat]

https://goo.gl/maps/3EGMsrVnq16T79Ry6
Lynemouth Power Station in the distance - road running south from Cresswell towards the station.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

https://goo.gl/maps/3EGMsrVnq16T79Ry6
Lynemouth Power Station in the distance - road running south from Cresswell towards the station.

Well done!

Spot on the location, but it's actually Lynemouth power station rather than Blyth. Although the chimneys, it turns out were for a now demolished Aluminium smelter, rather than the power station itself. That main chimney remains, but is hidden in the photo by the outbuilding.

The power station was originally located for the adjacent Ellington Colliery which extended under the North Sea for a very long way. All now gone save for a memorial statue.

 

[figbat]

Well done!

Spot on the location, but it's actually Lynemouth power station rather than Blyth. Although the chimneys, it turns out were for a now demolished Aluminium smelter, rather than the power station itself. That main chimney remains, but is hidden in the photo by the outbuilding.

The power station was originally located for the adjacent Ellington Colliery which extended under the North Sea for a very long way. All now gone save for a memorial statue.

Yes, I originally wrote Blyth as that was the Google search which apparently coincidentally led me to Lynemouth - I ninja edited to Lynemouth but obviously you saw my original message.

Anyway, the picture below I have cycled many times along both visible routes, but I've never ridden both on the same day...

 

[robjh]

Yes, I originally wrote Blyth as that was the Google search which apparently coincidentally led me to Lynemouth - I ninja edited to Lynemouth but obviously you saw my original message.

Anyway, the picture below I have cycled many times along both visible routes, but I've never ridden both on the same day...

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I was looking at the Ridgeway crossing roads in the Wiltshire downs but none look like this. Similar landscapes though.

 

[figbat]

I was looking at the Ridgeway crossing roads in the Wiltshire downs but none look like this. Similar landscapes though.

The right idea, wrong county.

 

[figbat]

The right idea, wrong county.

This isn’t the Ridgeway itself, but a connecting trail, hence the blue sign.

 

[Venod]

This isn’t the Ridgeway itself, but a connecting trail, hence the blue sign.

Think its time for a clue.

 

[figbat]

The track to the left does lead up to the Ridgeway; the track crosses over the road, so this is one corner of a crossroads-of-sorts. The road comes from a small village with an aviation-associated name.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

a small village with an aviation-associated name.

Ah, that'll be Sonic on the Wold. I'm on the case!

 

[Venod]

Copperage Road Berkshire

 

[robjh]

Copperage Road Berkshire

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I'd been looking all over the area south of Wantage and never found that spot.

 

[figbat]

Copperage Road Berkshire

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That’s it. More often than not I ride the track on an MTB, less frequently I’ll ride the road on my road bike. In fact this picture was taken just a few hundred metres up the road towards Farnborough.