Game: Name that road!

[Mr Celine]

Spot on @nickyboy

Given all the frequent mentions of Yorkshire on this thread I expected someone to get it straight away.
I was desperately searching on the OS map for a name to base a clue on when I noticed the big A and L of Wensleydale which got into the cheese clues.

Next clue was going to be 'It's between two Lancashire towns'. (Castle Bolton and Preston under scar, plus another cheese!)

Over to you.

 

[nickyboy]

 

[Dogtrousers]

Bridge over disused railway perhaps?

 

[nickyboy]

Bridge over disused railway perhaps?

I may need to check that

Nope

 

[T4tomo]

no idea, but there is a bit to go on for anyone who has been in the locality. interesting shaped structures on the horizon and as @Dogtrousers has pointed out below, if that's a railway line, its certainly not electrified... (it could be a river , but looks more like a railway cutting bank

 

[nickyboy]

no idea, but there is a bit to go on for anyone who has been in the locality. interesting shaped structures on the horizon and as @Dogtrousers has pointed out below, if that's a railway line, its certainly not electrified... (it could be a river , but looks more like a railway cutting bank

I just checked and that structure on the horizon isn't on Google Maps so it must be new. I can't be more black and white than that

 

[ColinJ]

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Gotcha....Redmire, Wensleydale

Ha - I looked at that stretch of road last night but didn't recognise it! The different perspective, tilt of the road, the difference in foliage, and lack of sheep (! ) fooled me...

 

[T4tomo]

I may need to check that

Nope

canal?

 

[Mr Celine]

no idea, but there is a bit to go on for anyone who has been in the locality. interesting shaped structures on the horizon and as @Dogtrousers has pointed out below, if that's a railway line, its certainly not electrified... (it could be a river , but looks more like a railway cutting bank

Looks like a wind turbine on the horizon.

 

[T4tomo]

Looks like a wind turbine on the horizon.

ah you are correct, just the top half poking up

 

[nickyboy]

canal?

Having checked that....nope

 

[Dogtrousers]

Having checked that....nope

Pixie motorway?

 

[nickyboy]

Pixie motorway?

Pixie-esque perhaps

 

[Aravis]

I'm sure anyone who'd seen that bridge would recognise it instantly, and I don't. It seems odd that it's so heavily engineered. Railway and canal seem to have been ruled out, and road seems even more unlikely, so there's not much left other than a river.

The road on the other side seems to go through a cutting, which probably it took quite a lot of effort to dig, and I wonder if the road was originally a tramway of some kind. If that's right there's a bit more chance that it's passing over a road, and it might help to explain the heavyweight bridge.

All clutching at straws of course. Black and white looks like a clue.

 

[Edwardoka]

I'm sure anyone who'd seen that bridge would recognise it instantly, and I don't. It seems odd that it's so heavily engineered. Railway and canal seem to have been ruled out, and road seems even more unlikely, so there's not much left other than a river.

The road on the other side seems to go through a cutting, which probably it took quite a lot of effort to dig, and I wonder if the road was originally a tramway of some kind. If that's right there's a bit more chance that it's passing over a road, and it might help to explain the heavyweight bridge.

All clutching at straws of course. Black and white looks like a clue.

I agree with your assessment. That grading and engineering is deliberate. Probably an old mining track or a construction road for a dam, in either case the bridge would need to be sturdy.