Game: Name that road!

[T4tomo]

Old packhorse road. Now protected.

Ah that explains why that wasn't tarmac-ed over, I still maintain that the sensible thing to do would have been to put the surfaced road land side of the tide defence not on the sea side.

 

[MontyVeda]

Ah that explains why that wasn't tarmac-ed over, I still maintain that the sensible thing to do would have been to put the surfaced road land side of the tide defence not on the sea side.

have you ever tried asking a farmer to give up a stretch of field?

 

[ColinJ]

have you ever tried asking a farmer to give up a stretch of field?

It does work sometimes...

Here is an example up by @Sea of vapours, allowing cyclists to avoid going back onto the dodgy A65.

 

[Sea of vapours]

A mighty fine facility that is, too. Quite apart from that being an especially hazardous, twisty 400m stretch of the A65 which people in general are truly rubbish at driving along, it avoids having to cross the thing twice (when heading west, as per the image above). Given the endless streams of drag-sheds and suburban main battle tanks streaming into the Lake District recently, this is a huge time saver as well as being potentially life-saving.

It cost ... rather a lot. Quite apart from the land, they had to move that dry stone wall away from the road 3-4 metres. Move means deconstruct and build anew. There's 400m of it and I'm told that one metre per day for two people is normal; so eight hundred days labour, plus materials. It certainly took a long time to fully appear.

 

[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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I'm thinking next valley over, but both take a more direct route up. No water features to the south.

 

[ColinJ]

...

 

[Aravis]

While we wait patiently for the clue, one little observation: I should have a chance next month for some cycling in a completely new area, so lots of material potentially to be gathered for this thread.

But talking about the trip, something I'd like to do both before or after, kind of gives the game away. 📦

That's always assuming anyone remembers anything that I post.

⛴

 

[Aravis]

My main purpose was to provide a bit of cover for yet another "Oi where's our clue?" post. Normally I try to leave these to someone else.

On balance I think ⛴ was suitably enigmatic.

🌄

 

[ColinJ]

Sorry, I forgot that I was 'on'!

I'm surprised that you need another clue... I thought my photo would put you on the right road originally; would yield clear results!

 

[Buck]

I tried to break down your clue further

Right road originally - I was thinking of a biblical term or ancient road or right road as in reform?

yield clear results - thinking of a well - clear being the water?

Alas I have failed to yield any clear results!

 

[ColinJ]

Sorry, did I post "originally"? Try "initially" instead!

 

[classic33]

Sorry, did I post "originally"? Try "initially" instead!

Ending up on the wrong road?

 

[ColinJ]

Think cryptic crosswords!

 

[ColinJ]

I chose "originally" originally rather than "initially" initially, to be a bit more sneaky, but the idea is the same. Now it should be a little more obvious. Of course, if you have never solved a cryptic crossword in your life, then that probably won't help!

 

[ColinJ]

Those damn semi-colons - they can't be trusted - always sticking their noses in where they are not wanted!