Game: Name that road!

[shnjmsn]

Well we get another version posted today with more to see............

 

[swansonj]

I'm honestly amazed at least one of you hasn't got it considering the quality of the detective work. Try the next reveal (and this time I'm not taking any chances with the name sign!)

 

[straas]

Is it a place sign? reminds me more of a holiday park or hotel sign?

Looks like a 5t weight limit underneath it.

 

[swansonj]

Is it a place sign? reminds me more of a holiday park or hotel sign?

Looks like a 5t weight limit underneath it.

It's a 40 speed limit sign - I'm not so cruel as to allow you all to embark on a hunt for every weight-limited road in the south west under false pretences

 

[straas]

Oh so it is in the south west then... 👀

 

[swansonj]

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.

No bridge, by Brunel or otherwise, sadly. No railway at all in the picture actually but there is a train connection, though it's slightly obscure so you might be a bit slow to spot it.

 

[lazybloke]

Aha, the eyes play tricks, and I've been looking for something that doesn't exist!
This looks far easier now, but I still have no idea where it is. Will search again later...

 

[MontyVeda]

No bridge, by Brunel or otherwise, sadly. No railway at all in the picture actually but there is a train connection, though it's slightly obscure so you might be a bit slow to spot it.

ah well... its was nice looking at pictures of bridges

 

[straas]

ah well... its was nice looking at pictures of bridges

I tried looking through church towers in the south west - turns out they all look vaguely similar!

 

[shnjmsn]

There's a kind of yellowy flag thing at the top of the roadsign that could be a local sign
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Looks more like an N there not an M ?

 

[ColinJ]

Looks more like an N there not an M ?

I was starting to think that!

I'm spending too much time looking at nice Cornish villages/towns... I'll check back later to discover the answer or have another go myself.

 

[snorri]

Nae bother! There's a car park from which the view was taken and which is also included in Streetview. I also have a similar view from 1965 with what look like fresh loose chippings:

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Assuming that @slow scot doesn't wish to post a photo, I suggest that anyone who has one ready posts it...

This road was better known as simply Glen Docherty, always a bit of a worry in wintery conditions!
Would you believe it trivia..
The black cable on the poles carried international telecomms traffic between the UK and Iceland. At Gairloch it was routed on the 'Scotice' submarine cable which ran between Gairloch - Torshavn(Faeroes) - Vestmannaeyjar(Iceland)

 

[straas]

It looks to drop steeply from where the photo is taken into the village / town pictured.

Maybe a stream or river cutting through and showing as a sharp bay toward the sea?

Not sure that really distinguishes itself from a lot of cornwall tbh!

 

[swansonj]

I was wondering why one of you hadn't got it, as I'd be pretty certain some of you (or at least one of you) have street-view'd along the right road, so I had another look. The streetview picture from the identical location doesn't actually look too much like my picture at first glance, and on reflection, it's largely because I must have been at the narrow end of my camera's zoom (and of course I had sunshine!) I just clicked three times on the zoom button on streetview to get more or less the same framing as my picture. So you need to be thinking in terms of a village slightly more in the distance in streetview....

 

[swansonj]

It looks to drop steeply from where the photo is taken into the village / town pictured....

It does. My wife and I were quite glad to be going down it not up. But of course we paid for it about 6 km later when we had to regain about two-thirds of the lost height.