Game: Name that road!

[swansonj]

I like the mix of new types of picture. I still can't do them. Especially not Scots ones as I've only ever been there twice, on very brief trips to the capital. But it does look nice, I ought to go sometime.

Anyway, @swansonj A sunken road, no dry stone walls. Looks like it might be the kind of area I ride. It won't be, so that means we can definitely rule out Kent.

I'm feeling helpful, so I will confirm that you can indeed rule out Kent.😀

Also, as a bonus, you may rule out Sussex. And Surrey. And, for that matter, Greater London....

 

[swansonj]

Render on the houses and the greeny yellow lichen on the roof suggests very close to the sea.

The hidden walls to the sides of the road suggest Cornwall?

I confirm that the final reveal will indeed include some sea. I am seriously impressed by your detection skills but I am neither confirming nor denying specifically Cornwall.

 

[figbat]

Hmmmmm - that village sign appears to begin with an ‘M’ but I can’t make the rest of it out.

 

[swansonj]

Hmmmmm - that village sign appears to begin with an ‘M’ but I can’t make the rest of it out.

Blimey, I didn't think it was readable at all, that's a narrow escape

 

[MontyVeda]

I don't know why but I have a feeling the reveal will be one of Brunell's bridges.... I've been scooting around the Tamar and having found some architecture that looks similar (white houses with roofs )... no joy so far.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

The sign isn't readable, but does it begin with an "M"?

 

[shnjmsn]

The sign is driving me crazy !!!!!!! Just can't quite see it............. Pretty sure Devon/Cornwall............

 

[figbat]

Me too! I thought it was ”MO...” and convinced myself it was Mortehoe but having had a pleasant wander around there I don’t think it is.

 

[ColinJ]

Mevagissey...?

If it IS, I haven't found the road yet!

 

[ColinJ]

Blimey, there are some STEEP little hills in Cornwall... I have just Street Viewed down a 30%-er!

 

[lazybloke]

A settlement of predominatly large old houses around a church. Lichen, shadows and gravestone alignment tell you directions. Houses look mostly 1900 or earlier, some quite grand. Unusual for the chuch to be close to the edge of a settlement, and not loads of new houses popping up, so maybe this is national park or there's some other planning protection?
Although the large house on the left does have some strange modern-looking buildings behind it. One of them seems to have only a single tiny window, which is very odd.

Churches are often on a hill, and I think this one is in an elevated position.
In fact, zoom in on the extremely left hand side and there are 3 distant houses which appear to be considerably lower than the everything else in the picture.

Not sure excatly how near the coast this is.
I've done a fair bit of travel in Devon/Cornwall, but nothing in this picture feels familiar. Am a bit stumped, and it's getting very late...

Edited for clarity.

 

[shnjmsn]

Likewise, I know Devon and Cornwall very well but so far this has got me stumped !

 

[swansonj]

Blimey, there are some STEEP little hills in Cornwall... I have just Street Viewed down a 30%-er!

Good job you were going down and not trying to come up it, eh....

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Appears to be green and yellow on that village sign. That might confirm the county. Had a quick look but no luck so far.

 

[swansonj]

Unusual for the church to be close to the edge of a settlement...

We're looking kind of side-on to a settlement that is more linear than circular, so although the church appears close to the side on the short axis, it could equally well be seen as tolerably central on the long axis

Churches are often on a hill...

I fear that "being on a hill" does not narrow things down much in the part of the world we are looking at.