Game: Name that road!

[roubaixtuesday]

And some of the roughest roads in the kingdom.

Dunno what you mean.

(Although, turns out I'm wrong again - the photo actually about 200m outside Staffs...)

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Anyway, to the point in hand, @nickyboy 's pic reminds me of New Mills. Either Derbys or W Yorks. Can find the road though.

 

[nickyboy]

Anyway, to the point in hand, @nickyboy 's pic reminds me of New Mills. Either Derbys or W Yorks. Can find the road though.

It was a ride from home this winter which narrows it down a bit. To try to help, have a look at how many roads there are in the photo. It's an unusual junction

 

[straas]

Anyway, to the point in hand, @nickyboy 's pic reminds me of New Mills. Either Derbys or W Yorks. Can find the road though.

Reminded me of new mills aswell
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.358...4!1sdO2aiCnsZS-tYSOccpFkJw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

[MontyVeda]

It was a ride from home this winter which narrows it down a bit. To try to help, have a look at how many roads there are in the photo. It's an unusual junction

no idea how far you ride, but a modest forty mile ride puts it within 20 miles of Glossop.

Looking at the three T junctions in such close proximity, and the old fashioned street lamps on the one way street got me thinking of a mill town squeezed in a narrow valley, eg. Holmfirth.. I've been all over the place (Glossop, Hadfield, Hollingworth, Hadfield, etc.) in Google maps but am really struggling to find three T junctions and one one-way street

I also have a feeling there's either a river or a railway on the other side of that wall your bike's leant against...?

also, it looks like an A road and the ice sign suggests its at some altitude??

 

[ColinJ]

I was also thinking that the ice warning sign showed that the road went up high.

My other thought was that I avoid going up high when the weather is like that so maybe @nickyboy had planned his local winter ride to stay low? So, no Snake Pass or Holme Moss... If that is right then look for where he could have got to without going over the big climbs.

OTOH, he might be completely nuts and LOVE going up to 500+ metres in blizzards!

 

[MontyVeda]

I can't see any clog prints in the snow so that rules out Yorkshire.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

no idea how far you ride, but a modest forty mile ride puts it within 20 miles of Glossop.

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Looking at the three T junctions in such close proximity, and the old fashioned street lamps on the one way street got me thinking of a mill town squeezed in a narrow valley, eg. Holmfirth.. I've been all over the place (Glossop, Hadfield, Hollingworth, Hadfield, etc.) in Google maps but am really struggling to find three T junctions and one one-way street

I also have a feeling there's either a river or a railway on the other side of that wall your bike's leant against...?

also, it looks like an A road and the ice sign suggests its at some altitude??

There's another New Mills much closer. But I can't find a match there, the buildings, parapet and complicated junction

just reminded me if it.

 

[nickyboy]

no idea how far you ride, but a modest forty mile ride puts it within 20 miles of Glossop.

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Looking at the three T junctions in such close proximity, and the old fashioned street lamps on the one way street got me thinking of a mill town squeezed in a narrow valley, eg. Holmfirth.. I've been all over the place (Glossop, Hadfield, Hollingworth, Hadfield, etc.) in Google maps but am really struggling to find three T junctions and one one-way street

I also have a feeling there's either a river or a railway on the other side of that wall your bike's leant against...?

also, it looks like an A road and the ice sign suggests its at some altitude??

There is a (very small) river over the wall, you're right. The "no entry" is a bit of a red herring. It's just stopping you cutting behind the bollards. All the roads are two-way. And you're right, the road with the ice sign goes quite high, as do most of the roads you can see
A slightly obtuse clue...would a 3D map help?

 

[MontyVeda]

There is a (very small) river over the wall, you're right. The "no entry" is a bit of a red herring. It's just stopping you cutting behind the bollards. All the roads are two-way. And you're right, the road with the ice sign goes quite high, as do most of the roads you can see
A slightly obtuse clue...would a 3D map help?

I've only just noticed that it's a roundabout too!
that means i'll have to go back to everywhere i've looked and not dismiss the roundabouts

 

[nickyboy]

I've only just noticed that it's a roundabout too!
that means i'll have to go back to everywhere i've looked and not dismiss the roundabouts

It isn't a roundabout. Just a weird junction. Final clue...it's in Derbyshire. But the road my bike is on goes to Lancashire and the one with the ice sign goes to Yorkshire

Edit: I was wrong. It isn't in Derbyshire. It's in Greater Manchester although used to be in W Riding of Yorkshire. So the junction is interesting. It's in GM. The road I'm on goes to Lancashire. A couple go to Yorkshire and one goes (ultimately) to Cheshire. The other heads into G Manchester.

 

[nickyboy]

I seem to have killed the thread. Apologies for that!

Here is the junction.
https://goo.gl/maps/kVXjXRg5TxWGjYtT7

It's in Denshaw, which is part of the Diggle/Delph/Denshaw triangle of villages locally known as "3D" (the local junior football team is 3D Dynamos). You can see the "Road Closed due to Snow" warning signs which were hidden in the murk on my photo. The Road I'm on goes to Rochdale (Lancs), the one to the left goes to Sowerby Bridge (Yorkshire), the one with the Ice sign goes to Huddersfield (Yorkshire) and the other one eventually goes to Stalybridge (Cheshire)

All roads seem to lead to Denshaw so, if you cycle in the area, it's one of the most well known junctions (and the pub behind me is called, unsurprisingly, The Junction)

 

[nickyboy]

Here is a much easier and probably more interesting effort

 

[Tribansman]

I seem to have killed the thread. Apologies for that!

Here is the junction.
https://goo.gl/maps/kVXjXRg5TxWGjYtT7

It's in Denshaw, which is part of the Diggle/Delph/Denshaw triangle of villages locally known as "3D" (the local junior football team is 3D Dynamos). You can see the "Road Closed due to Snow" warning signs which were hidden in the murk on my photo. The Road I'm on goes to Rochdale (Lancs), the one to the left goes to Sowerby Bridge (Yorkshire), the one with the Ice sign goes to Huddersfield (Yorkshire) and the other one eventually goes to Stalybridge (Cheshire)

All roads seem to lead to Denshaw so, if you cycle in the area, it's one of the most well known junctions (and the pub behind me is called, unsurprisingly, The Junction)

I was going to say that but ruled it out as not in Derbyshire and I didn't see your above edit! It's a lovely ride up and over the moors to the M62 and Sowerby Bridge

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I seem to have killed the thread. Apologies for that!

Here is the junction.
https://goo.gl/maps/kVXjXRg5TxWGjYtT7

It's in Denshaw, which is part of the Diggle/Delph/Denshaw triangle of villages locally known as "3D" (the local junior football team is 3D Dynamos). You can see the "Road Closed due to Snow" warning signs which were hidden in the murk on my photo. The Road I'm on goes to Rochdale (Lancs), the one to the left goes to Sowerby Bridge (Yorkshire), the one with the Ice sign goes to Huddersfield (Yorkshire) and the other one eventually goes to Stalybridge (Cheshire)

All roads seem to lead to Denshaw so, if you cycle in the area, it's one of the most well known junctions (and the pub behind me is called, unsurprisingly, The Junction)

Never saw the edit, so last looked in Derbyshire, and convinced from the geography it had to be in the Hadfield area somewhere!