Game: Name that road!

[ColinJ]

HERE.

how very curious that there is a paved road alongside on unpaved cart track?

I thought that too!

I knew it was in that area as soon as I saw the photo. It took a bit of finding though...

 

[nickyboy]

Given I am also a son of North Lancashire I'd convinced myself it was the road out of Overton to Sunderland Point. Close but no cigar

 

[T4tomo]

HERE.

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I thought that too!

I knew it was in that area as soon as I saw the photo. It took a bit of finding though...

what a weird old place, the road to nowhere except a caravan park or two.

Me Dad was right when he said there's nowt over that side woth seeing son

 

[nickyboy]

how very curious that there is a paved road alongside on unpaved cart track?

I think the metalled road floods on high tides. The track is on top of an embankment which protects the farmland behind and allows continued access to the farms at the seaward end

 

[MontyVeda]

HERE.

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I thought that too!

I knew it was in that area as soon as I saw the photo. It took a bit of finding though...

I had a feeling you'd get this one Colin

The road on the right is to the farm and Caravan site (the track is on the top of a dyke for when the road is flooded). The road to the left is to the Black Knights parachute centre. It's quite nice to sit and watch them coming down... however the stone seat in my photo is a memorial to a poor young chap who's chute didn't open

It's also part of my 30 mile flat as a pancake route from Lancaster to Knott-End... and should become part of the Bay Cycle way if they extend it that far.

Over to you Colin

 

[ColinJ]

I'll have a think while I do a short sunny evening ride...

 

[MontyVeda]

I'll have a think while I do a short sunny evening ride...

don't forget your camera!

 

[ColinJ]

don't forget your camera!

I decided to save my energy for a longer ride tomorrow...

I'm suffering terrible déjà vu with every road now! I can't remember which ones I have already posted, and when I went to search just now I found that I have nearly 20 pages worth of posts in this thread... I'm not going to search through all of them just now.

If I have posted this one before, let me know and I will pick another one!

 

[classic33]

I decided to save my energy for a longer ride tomorrow...

I'm suffering terrible déjà vu with every road now! I can't remember which ones I have already posted, and when I went to search just now I found that I have nearly 20 pages worth of posts in this thread... I'm not going to search through all of them just now.

If I have posted this one before, let me know and I will pick another one!

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Steep

 

[ColinJ]

Steep

It damn well IS... I only have about a 50% success rate of getting up that one on the bike without stopping!

 

[nickyboy]

It damn well IS... I only have about a 50% success rate of getting up that one on the bike without stopping!

I'm sure I've ridden up that one. But there are a few like that around here. Let me think....

 

[T4tomo]

I think the metalled road floods on high tides. The track is on top of an embankment which protects the farmland behind and allows continued access to the farms at the seaward end

one might ask why they didn't put the metalled road on top of the embankment in the first place

 

[ColinJ]

one might ask why they didn't put the metalled road on top of the embankment in the first place

Perhaps the embankment was added later?

 

[T4tomo]

Perhaps the embankment was added later?

Perhaps, but I assume the tide has been coming in since long before a farm and any road was conceived and the embankment then built to enable the fields behind it to be enclosed / cultivated. So at the point someone says lets make a tarmac road, the choices of on top, in front or behind the tide defence are all available. Lancastrians

 

[classic33]

Perhaps, but I assume the tide has been coming in since long before a farm and any road was conceived and the embankment then built to enable the fields behind it to be enclosed / cultivated. So at the point someone says lets make a tarmac road, the choices of on top, in front or behind the tide defence are all available. Lancastrians

Old packhorse road. Now protected.