Game: Name that road!

[Speicher]

Looks like the Malverns to me, but can't find the road and there are many, many possibilities approaching from the East.

Yes, I think you are right. Looking at the Malverns from the east.

 

[Speicher]

My thought process is Tour of Belgium, tears - Cav's win final stage into Beringen, (also a Beringen in Switzerland - helmet looks like a swiss flag) , so that explains last 3 emoji's, haven't worked out the kop car yet!!

i=s there a road of village that sounds a bit like Beringen in the right place. I was going off Roubaix's guess on malverns, which do look about the right shape. its defo not Roseberry topping

Birlingham?

 

[Dogtrousers]

There are some great place names to the East of the Malverns: Uckinghall; Puckrup; Shuthonger.

Unfortunately I don't remember any recent Tour (of France or Belgium) going through le Puckrup.

 

[Willd]

There's also a Drugger's End to the East

 

[nickyboy]

This is an alternative view, taken from Street View:

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The bridge now looks sensibly proportioned, but the view confirms the impression that the builders went to considerable trouble, digging a cutting which in turn provided the material for a substantial embankment. It's a listed structure and was built in 1832, which is at the end of the canal age and just as the railways were getting established. Perhaps it was the fashionable way to do things at the time.

At the risk of diverting the thread, assuming someone actually wanted to go from Gretna (ish) to Eskdalemuir then this is the way. You can bridge the Esk further downstream but then you'd also have to bridge the tributary coming in from the right in the photo so two bridges to build. Continue past the confluence and there is only one to build, but you've got a bloody big hill in the way so the only way is to cross at that point with all the embanking etc it involves. Down right next to the confluence looks like a place that would flood

Why sufficient people would be going from Gretna to Eskdalemuir to warrant a pretty expensive bridge is beyond me

 

[T4tomo]

At the risk of diverting the thread, assuming someone actually wanted to go from Gretna (ish) to Eskdalemuir then this is the way. You can bridge the Esk further downstream but then you'd also have to bridge the tributary coming in from the right in the photo so two bridges to build. Continue past the confluence and there is only one to build, but you've got a bloody big hill in the way so the only way is to cross at that point with all the embanking etc it involves. Down right next to the confluence looks like a place that would flood

Why sufficient people would be going from Gretna to Eskdalemuir to warrant a pretty expensive bridge is beyond me

Oddly I was looking at this route / road a week or so ago, working out for a future cycling hol, seeing if you could reasonably make a combo of Hadrians cycleway and part of Newc - Edinburgh / coast and castle route into a circular route to make logistics easier. That needed a route south from innerleithen / selkirk, so past the Tushielaw and via Eskdalemuir looked like the route of choice. Having grown up by N Yorks' Esk, and holidayed by the lake district one, it would be nice to tick off the Scottish ones too!

 

[Aravis]

I promise you will all kick yourselves.

There were two incidents on this TDF which I am certain you will all remember. What you might not realise is that they both happened on the same day.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I promise you will all kick yourselves.

There were two incidents on this TDF which I am certain you will all remember. What you might not realise is that they both happened on the same day.

Soo ... not Tour of Belgium. Or Wallonie. Or Britain.

 

[Mr Celine]

Gilbert's end

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.0...65hRbIVSWc4sNiVhOoPw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

Edit to add pic

 

[Edwardoka]

I promise you will all kick yourselves.

There were two incidents on this TDF which I am certain you will all remember. What you might not realise is that they both happened on the same day.

I didn't watch it but certainly the event that got the most press at this year's TDF was the sign lady bringing down the entire peloton on the stage between Brest and Landerneau, both of which are in Brittany.

Hmm. Brittany shares etymology with Britain! Finally, a breakthrough! The road is somewhere in Britain!

 

[Dogtrousers]

Gilbert's end

2018 Stage 16 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/44943663

Many tears: Hay bales were thrown across the road before police appeared to use a spray on protesters, which then blew into the peloton. Some riders, including Team Sky's Thomas and Froome, stopped and doused their eyes with water.

Gilbert's End: Philippe Gilbert is out of the Tour after a heavy fall on the descent of the Col de Portet-d'Aspet

 

[Aravis]

That was worth waiting for, wasn't it?

Time for another cracker from @Mr Celine. 🧨

 

[Mr Celine]

2018 Stage 16 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/44943663

Many tears: Hay bales were thrown across the road before police appeared to use a spray on protesters, which then blew into the peloton. Some riders, including Team Sky's Thomas and Froome, stopped and doused their eyes with water.

Gilbert's End: Philippe Gilbert is out of the Tour after a heavy fall on the descent of the Col de Portet-d'Aspet

My initial thought on crying, police cars and belgians was Festina, which was 1998. Won by Marco Pantani. Fortunately the clue turned out not to be pants after all.

 

[T4tomo]

Gilbert's end

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.0...65hRbIVSWc4sNiVhOoPw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
View attachment 603651

Edit to add pic

erghh that's annoying, I saw Gilberts end [and (Tim) Wellan(s)d road] but couldn't match the scenery or the clue as was stuck on Cav's tears of joy!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

erghh that's annoying, I saw Gilberts end [and (Tim) Wellan(s)d road] but couldn't match the scenery or the clue as was stuck on Cav's tears of joy!

Damn I was looking around Col Wall.