Game: Name that road!

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ColinJ

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
Location
Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
nickyboy said:
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
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nickyboy said:
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)
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Aaargh! :banghead:

I thought that I recognised that junction!!! The snow distracted me slightly, but the main thing was that I couldn't figure out where I had been in Derbyshire that looked like that. The fact that it actually looked like a junction that I had cycled across maybe 20 times which is NOT in Derbyshire didn't occur to me... :whistle:

I always think of it as 4D - Diggle-Delph-Denshaw-Dobcross!

nickyboy said:
Edit: I was wrong. It isn't in Derbyshire. It's in Greater Manchester although used to be in W Riding of Yorkshire.
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They haven't forgotten that... (Picture taken up the hill from which you appear to have descended) :okay:

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nickyboy

nickyboy

Norven Mankey
Location
You want hills? We got hills
Apologies all....I can 100% guarantee that the replacement photo is NOT in Derbyshire
 
I like Skol

I like Skol

A Minging Manc...
Location
Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
Got to hold my hand up and admit I wasn't fooled by Nick's Derbyshire misinformation :headshake:

I told him where it was and that it definitely wasn't in his home county. Bless, he gets a bit confused once he leaves Glossopdale.

I'm not claiming to be knowledgeable, just very, very local to the junction in question. Even then, being told it was Derbyshire had me thinking it might be the New Mills junction on the A6 for a moment but i just couldn't make that fit.
 
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ColinJ

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
Location
Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
nickyboy said:
While on hols last December in Brixham. Church Hill is so steep I actually had to get off and walk down to the point I did the photo. I'm guessing there aren't many ferry crossings with large marinas and a railway line
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Indeed, and I remembered that you had been cycling in that area at the end of last year... :okay:

Ok, here's my next one. I'll give you the first clue straight away - it is obviously a steep road, which I thought it would be 'quite tough', but after riding up it I would say it is a genuine 'tough'! Not so tough that I had any doubts about getting up it, but I would have probably failed without my 28/27 and 28/30 grovelling gears.

If nobody gets it after a couple of days I'll give another clue.

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MontyVeda

MontyVeda

a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
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Lancaster... the little city.
nickyboy said:
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)
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I looked at pretty much every junction between Stalybridge and Uppermill, but didn't think it'd be any further north than that. Kicking myself now because even from 2000ft on Googlemaps, Denshaw looks like a good candidate for your junction.

Don't apologise... we need the odd road to totally get the better of us. And there's nowt wrong with being beaten by a fellow Lancastrian :okay:
 
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Tribansman

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ColinJ said:
Indeed, and I remembered that you had been cycling in that area at the end of last year... :okay:

Ok, here's my next one. I'll give you the first clue straight away - it is obviously a steep road, which I thought it would be 'quite tough', but after riding up it I would say it is a genuine 'tough'! Not so tough that I had any doubts about getting up it, but I would have probably failed without my 28/27 and 28/30 grovelling gears.

If nobody gets it after a couple of days I'll give another clue.

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Name That Road!
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Looks like Whalley viaduct, but can't find a road nearby with that view...
 
nickyboy

nickyboy

Norven Mankey
Location
You want hills? We got hills
Tribansman said:
Looks like Whalley viaduct, but can't find a road nearby with that view...
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It also looks like Martholme Viaduct...the stone type is correct and the alignment is correct. But I can't find a chevron'd road in the Whalley Banks area with the correct view
 
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ColinJ

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
Location
Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Aravis said:
With such massive help from the posters above.....

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Moor Lane, just south of Whalley. I wouldn't have known where to start, even though I have been over the bridge.
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Indeed! I couldn't figure out why they hadn't spotted it, but didn't want to say anything because they were so close.

It is a 'nicely nasty' little climb which has a reputation in the area for being hard. Some others have not been quite as tough as their reputations would make you think, but that one definitely IS!

Your turn again...
 
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