Game: Name that road!

[ColinJ]

It was so similar from memory I thought you must be confused - so I checked.

On the OS map it's a perfect match down to the wood below to the right.

But of course you were right - see streetview below. It's remarkably similar mind.

Please forgive my impertinence!

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Great minds think alike - I have just Streetviewed up there myself!

My guess is that...

... it is somewhere in the Yorkshire Dales!

And MY clue is that there are no dry stone walls, so look on the OS map for yellow roads with dashed lines both sides.

 

[ColinJ]

And MY clue is that there are no dry stone walls, so look on the OS map for yellow roads with dashed lines both sides.

And it is a very minor road...

 

[Sea of vapours]

My guess is that...

... it is somewhere in the Yorkshire Dales!

Not an unreasonable guess, but it's not. I will say that it is a road I have traversed a few times, starting and/or finishing from home on the same day.

And it is a very minor road...

Hard to argue with that one. It's a very long, very minor road though.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Not an unreasonable guess, but it's not

Must be Wales. It's always bloody Wales.

 

[Sea of vapours]

Must be Wales. It's always bloody Wales.

Ha ha! No, I'd be hard-pressed to cycle from Clapham to any part of Wales and back in a day!

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Ha ha! No, I'd be hard-pressed to cycle from Clapham to any part of Wales and back in a day!

You never know on here. All sorts of Mille Cymru types around here. https://audax.uk/event-details?eventId=742

Clapham London, or Clapham North Yorkshire? Incidentally Or any other Clapham? (He asks, trying to minimise the target zone)

 

[Sea of vapours]

Clapham, North Yorkshire. Over 300km round trip to the closest point in Cymru. I /have/ done that in a day, but not to where this road is. To be entirely clear: it's not Wales, and it's not the Yorkshire Dales.

 

[ColinJ]

I have an idea but am Zooming at 6 pm. Will check later!

 

[Sea of vapours]

Not the Forest of Bowland, though the general area does share a suffix with the Forest of Bowland.

 

[Sea of vapours]

Perhaps, or perhaps not. It'll not take long to determine that since there aren't many roads in the Nidderdale AONB.

 

[Sea of vapours]

Time for an actual clue, and I'll narrow this down a considerable amount since it seems no-one actually recognises the road. I'm surprised as it's a very fine length of tarmac (the location, not so much the surface itself).

It does look rather like Fleet Moss, going southwards out of Hawes, but that's a mere 588m high, whereas the road pictured is higher.

 

[swansonj]

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.6...ryDNbp8DUQnUAWzBg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en-GB







Weardale to Teesdale, Westgate to Newbiggin?

Edit: if that's right, it's quite a cycle from Clapham!

 

[Sea of vapours]

Correct! Swinhope Head. Joint highest pass in the Pennines and thus presumably the highest pass (as distinct from just a road up and back) in England, at 609m.

The last time I went over that a cloudburst electrical storm started as I came over the top, heading southwards. Seriously scary as there was forked lightning striking every few seconds and there's very little up there that's higher than 'person on a bike'. The road was stream-like and I was balancing the risk of being hit by lightning with the risk of crashing due to going down too fast. Both events avoided, fortunately.

 

[swansonj]

Correct! Swinhope Head. Joint highest pass in the Pennines and thus presumably the highest pass (as distinct from just a road up and back) in England, at 609m.

The last time I went over that a cloudburst electrical storm started as I came over the top, heading southwards. Seriously scary as there was forked lightning striking every few seconds and there's very little up there that's higher than 'person on a bike'. The road was stream-like and I was balancing the risk of being hit by lightning with the risk of crashing due to going down too fast. Both events avoided, fortunately.

The clue about the height was, as you recognised, quite effective in narrowing down the search area dramatically....

 

[Sea of vapours]

Edit: if that's right, it's quite a cycle from Clapham!

It is. I did it from home and back once, but mostly I've gone over it en route to or from visiting friends in Washington. where the North Pennine AONB passes can all be included with a bit of a deviation from the direct route.

The clue about the height was, as you recognised, quite effective in narrowing down the search area dramatically....

Indeed ;-) Not many roads in the UK higher than the one over Fleet Moss. They're probably counted in single digits and all but a couple in the North Pennines.