Game: Name that road!

[Edwardoka]

I'm taking a hiatus from CC, but I wouldn't want to leave you on edge or without closure.

Just behind the trees in the first pic, the road takes a 90 degree turn to the left, the second photo is taken from the outside of the corner, and at the top of the road it turns right again and enters a cutting.

There are clues in this post, but I have included the following spoiler that will make things much much easier, please don't use it unless you're still stuck in a few days.

Spoiler

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I wish you all much luck!

 

[Buck]

Does anyone have a clue?

I was thinking

motorbike = Norton? e.g. Chipping Norton / Midsomer Norton

fossils = limestone? Could it be The Mendip Hills?

leave on edge / without closure ???

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Geology limestone folded vertically ? The Norbur erratics ? Stand edge cutting ? Who knows?

 

[classic33]

Does anyone have a clue?

I was thinking

motorbike = Norton? e.g. Chipping Norton / Midsomer Norton

fossils = limestone? Could it be The Mendip Hills?

leave on edge / without closure ???

Limestone, Malham/Malham Cove area?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Limestone, Malham/Malham Cove area?

or White Peak or Cheddar…. Cove doesn’t have roads or trees like that nearby

 

[Aravis]

I think the fossil reference is pointing us to Jurassic rocks. The most famous such rocks are on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, but it was implied that this is well inland. "Coward" implies yellow I presume, and Jurassic limestone is typically yellow. It really does look like one of the roads over the Cotswolds in the Burton Dassett area near Banbury, but I've been unable to find a match. Perhaps it's a perspective thing. The queues thing is a puzzle though - presumably this road is pretty busy at certain times so I'd guess it's heading to or from a large town. Again the Banbury area would fit.

I think there are other clues which I haven't taken account of. The (Chipping) Norton idea I hadn't thought of.

Almost time for bed.

 

[Buck]

I thought Malham initially then ruled it out and Norber as the surrounding area doesn’t look like that.

 

[Dogtrousers]

"uplifting clues" ... uplift is a geological term. I'm not sure what it is, though. So we may be looking for uplifted limestone.

 

[classic33]

Settle?

 

[Buck]

What’s the cowardly handcyclist clue tell us? If anything?

 

[Alex321]

I've been thinking the edge reference meant somewhere like Wotton-under-edge or Edgehill - which is Banbury area again.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Cowardly could be yellow. Possibly another geological reference.

 

[classic33]

Why the queues, I wonder? Maybe the road goes round the corner into a little village, or over a narrow bridge...

Level crossing?

 

[ColinJ]

Level crossing?

I was thinking perhaps HGVs crawling up a steep, twisty road?

 

[classic33]

I was thinking perhaps HGVs crawling up a steep, twisty road?

What could be overhead wiring outside the cut Field. First thought was a canal, beyond the same field.