Game: Name that road!

[MontyVeda]

I hate this game!

I thoroughly enjoy finding that road...

...it's finding the next road to post that i don't enjoy.

 

[ColinJ]

is it somewhere near Coventry?

Yes! Oh, you've found it since then...

If you had searched for posts by me on CC mentioning 'sandstone' you'd have found THIS ONE.

Let's see what you come up with now.

I have got into the habit of looking for my next road to post as soon as my most recent one has been identified.

 

[ColinJ]

There was me thinking Well was the big hint. Actually, it was just a conjunction and "I may have lived ..." was the big hint. I stopped reading as soon as I saw big hint and started thinking of places called "Well" or "Wells".
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Ah, I see what you both meant now... Yes, it would have been better as "Well, (BIG hint!) I may have lived in NW England for 38 years..."!

 

[MontyVeda]

There was me thinking Well was the big hint. Actually, it was just a conjunction and "I may have lived ..." was the big hint. I stopped reading as soon as I saw big hint and started thinking of places called "Well" or "Wells".
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same here! I was looking for Wells in town names, holy wells, sacred springs, then spa towns as in Leamington...

Yes! Oh, you've found it since then...

If you had searched for posts by me on CC mentioning 'sandstone' you'd have found THIS ONE.

...

After Classic told me you were from Coventry (Thanks @classic33 you were much more help than @Drago), I googled 'sandstone outcrop coventry' which lead me directly to Corley Rocks. That's after spending far too long looking for sandstone outcrops in and around Herefordshire.

Do you mind if I bend the rules a little @ColinJ? and offer the next entry to someone who hasn't yet had the chance to post a picture of a road in this thread.

First come first served. providing its your first time.

If there's no takers by tea time tomorrow, I'll post one.

 

[ColinJ]

Ok - a rare opportunity for a first time poster to offer us a chance to... Name That Road! (See first post in thread for details of the kind of thing we want.)

PS Actually, anybody can do it normally as long as they solved the preceding NTR challenge first. It is rare to have the chance to do it WITHOUT solving one first!

 

[robjh]

I hate this game!

I thoroughly enjoy finding that road...

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...it's finding the next road to post that i don't enjoy.

Aaah! It actually reminded me of Rock Lane though I couldn't remember a junction there (and couldn't remember the name or quite where it was). But definitely in the young @ColinJ's riding range.

 

[MontyVeda]

Well since no one's taken up the offer of a free go... I supposed i'd better do it myself.

Name this road!

 

[ColinJ]

I don't know it, but it is the kind of road I like so I will enjoy trying to find it...

I reckon that the camera is pointing pretty much south? (Direction of shadows, and the appearance of the tree on the left suggests that the prevailing W/SW wind comes from the right.)

 

[MontyVeda]

correct on both counts

 

[ColinJ]

I'm getting good at this...

 

[MontyVeda]

you are!

Was it the pylons and mobile phone masts that helped you locate it... a couple of miles north of Lancaster?

It was like finding a lost valley the first time I rode it.

 

[ColinJ]

Was it the pylons and mobile phone masts that helped you locate it... a couple of miles north of Lancaster?

Tree development and shadows to determine direction.

Search centred on Lancaster, because many of your roads are in that area.

A narrow lane so a thin yellow road marking on OS 1:50,000 map.

Undulating terrain, small hill to right of road. (Contours on OS map.)

Pylon and power cables to the south.

I didn't spot the phone masts... Are they fake trees to the right atop the hill?

 

[ColinJ]

Oh, here's my next one. I don't THINK this one has been done before. See if anybody gets it without a clue... (I reckon somebody WILL know this one.)

 

[classic33]

Oh, here's my next one. I don't THINK this one has been done before. See if anybody gets it without a clue... (I reckon somebody WILL know this one.)

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I've seen a similar "round tower", that wasn't.

 

[MontyVeda]

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I didn't spot the phone masts... Are they fake trees to the right atop the hill?

yes... they appeared fully grown about 20 years ago.