MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
no idea... but possibly somewhere in south-east England... Kent, Sussex?
Game: Name that road!
- Thread starter ColinJ
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ColinJ
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- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Yep the Crown pub is directly behind in the above photo. Anyone riding PBP and cycling to Newhaven will likely pass. There’s a bike shop on left hand fork. They fixed my BB in 2019 (on way to PBP).
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Turner's Hill is right.
It's also on the big mass participation London Brighton rides, or so I'm told, and is a favoured rest stop on those as it's roughly half way and is at the top of a hill, as the name implies.
Took marginally longer for this to be identified than it took me to edit out the writing on the signpost.
Over to you @swansonj 😄
I didn't know about the bike shop. Mental note made. It's Leeli Cycles http://www.leelicycles.co.uk/ They seem like a friendly lot. I may take them up on their offer of a free coffee next time I'm out that way. Whenever that is ... may be a long time
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swansonj
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I think this may be the signpost in question.Turner's Hill is right.
It's also on the big mass participation London Brighton rides, or so I'm told, and is a favoured rest stop on those as it's roughly half way and is at the top of a hill, as the name implies.
Took marginally longer for this to be identified than it took me to edit out the writing on the signpost.
Over to you @swansonj 😄
I didn't know about the bike shop. Mental note made. It's Leeli Cycles http://www.leelicycles.co.uk/ They seem like a friendly lot. I may take them up on their offer of a free coffee next time I'm out that way. Whenever that is ... may be a long time
Disappointingly, considering how many times I've stood round up there on various pre-dawn Saturday mornings, I can't find any better photos than this rather crap effort. But it did give me an excuse to revisit my entire stock of FNRttC photos after recognising it last night.
swansonj
Guru
Yup I'll go with that - the farm at the bottom, to whom the cows belong, uses the first couple of fields, above that it gets into a former large estate, now mainly owned by the local authority but with a pretty large private house and grounds still there.
Edit: wonderful thing, Wikipedia... it confirms that the current private house was built as a new manor house for the whole estate in a previous century. The road in question was presumably built, or upgraded, to reach the house.
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MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
I was trying to show off the regional finger sign identification skills I'd developed earlier in this thread 😎
swansonj
Guru
I would actually have been amazed if anyone had recognised this through cycling up it themselves - not many cyclists do cycle up it. But many tens of thousands of cyclists do cycle within a few hundred yards of the bottom of it, including many from these forums...
swansonj
Guru
.... many of them on the same day each year, at least up until last year...
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
All i can deduce from that is the construction company is based just outside of Basingstoke... and the sign is pointing to a sawmill
from your cycling clue... is it somewhere near the London-Brighton route?
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MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
Not sure if the Basingstoke connection is much use since contractors can travel far and wide
Hackwood Park Basingstoke ?
Norbury Park is my guess.
Edit - perhaps here.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.2...4!1sRflS0NtVAPCXmtJknkXHbg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Edit - perhaps here.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.2...4!1sRflS0NtVAPCXmtJknkXHbg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
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