Game: Name that road!

[figbat]

I knew I recognised it! At first I thought it was a bit further south-east by the Quantocks but your clue sent me up the A39 to just outside Dunster. I was there last autumn on holiday.

 

[shnjmsn]

Good God man that was quick !!!!! Spot on, I was trying not to get too much of the castle in, but a bit of it Well done !

 

[figbat]

Sometimes you get lucky and just recognise a place. This is the third I have known (near enough) on first sight.

 

[shnjmsn]

Sometimes you get lucky and just recognise a place. This is the third I have known (near enough) on first site.

I'm hoping your next one will have the same effect for me !!!!!

 

[figbat]

I used to visit the place on the right as a kid. Now I ride this road frequently at the weekend; I make my way home whilst my kids participate in a rural activity nearby. I generally ride the other way from the way the picture is taken, but have done it this way too.

 

[shnjmsn]

Hmmmmm.......... Fitness at the farm ?

 

[ColinJ]

I was trying hard to crop the very large fort/not fort on the left to leave just a bit showing Colin A-road. Looking due west..........

Some B-roads are more like A-roads and vice versa!

I was looking at (what turns out to be) Conygar Tower - I didn't spot the castle! I had also noticed the church in Dunster.

My attempt at working out the direction was by the effect of the prevailing wind on the trees. That stretch of road actually goes NW so I wasn't too far out!

 

[shnjmsn]

Some B-roads are more like A-roads and vice versa!

I was looking at (what turns out to be) Conygar Tower - I didn't spot the castle! I had also noticed the church in Dunster.

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My attempt at working out the direction was by the effect of the prevailing wind on the trees. That stretch of road actually goes NW so I wasn't too far out!

Very true ! It's Somerset to be fair so most of our A roads are like B roads, and most of our B roads are tracks with grass growing up the middle !

 

[ColinJ]

Oh, it turns out that I rode through Dunster on my Exmoor ride a few years ago! I don't remember that bit of my route, but I was hurrying to meet my fit cousin who had gone ahead to Minehead and was waiting for me at a cafe there.

 

[lazybloke]

Well that was weird. i guessed the direction, took a guess of Faringdon after a gliimpse of a topographical map, and my first click on the map was about 50 metres away.
https://goo.gl/maps/JE1sLwHaNWtVg9nH8

 

[Mr Celine]

Well done folks. I was sure you'd find it. Trying to retrospectively predict what my mother would have done, I hadn't looked at that road, but it was always one of the possible routes depending on what she wanted to do.

I think that's a win for @swansonj assuming no-one disagrees.

Sorry I've been away from the forum for a few days. Did this variant work, do you think?

I always seem to arrive late for the party when there's a Scottish road. Without having looked at the answer I was convinced that was Ben Ledi from south east of Callendar, but having checked streetview it's definitely Schiehallion, probably from this viewpoint above the A826.

 

[Sea of vapours]

Very convincing. Can you provide a link to exactly where that is?

 

[ColinJ]

Very convincing. Can you provide a link to exactly where that is?

It is about 500 metres back up the road from the position I linked to... HERE.

 

[figbat]

Well that was weird. i guessed the direction, took a guess of Faringdon after a gliimpse of a topographical map, and my first click on the map was about 50 metres away.
https://goo.gl/maps/JE1sLwHaNWtVg9nH8

Good instincts! It’s the road from Faringdon to Highworth; my kids go to the horse riding centre the other side of Coleshill - we all drive there together with a bike on the roof and then I ride home whilst my wife stays and watches them. My road route comes past this spot, which is Badbury Hill and a NT location; there’s a bit of a climb to get there but nothing massive. I’ll sometimes alternatively take a MTB route home along the Ridgeway (past the site of another recent picture in this thread).

 

[lazybloke]

Here's your next photo.

Under the new rules, this is not a place I've cycled, but it's on a route that I've planned after lockdown.
Nowhere near my home county; it'll take me almost a full day of riding to reach this place.


I'm a follower of the cropping trend but will reveal more of the scene tomorrow if it hasn't been recognised.