Game: Name that road!

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T4tomo

Legendary Member
Whilst Hartlepool nuclear power station is immediately adjacent to seal sands, you'd be mad to swim there and it looks nothing like the area so almost certainly a red herring.

Having been born and brought up within sight of said power station, I look forward to being embarrassingly wrong!
also not a great holiday destination, nor a picturesque as the photo.^_^

There are few plants around the Wash will similar scenery, but either the plant is the wrong shape, the ploughing is on the wrong side or the roads around it are too big. but there are seals up there! need to work out what the hideaway refers too...
 

Buck

Guru
Location
Yorkshire
Hides - RSPB reserve perhaps?

“relaxing in the garden” - Kent is described as the garden of England?
 

Aravis

Putrid Donut
Location
Gloucester
I've given three clues so far. One hints at part of the name of the locality itself, one at what people usually go there to see, and the other at the purpose of the building.

I haven't hinted at the geographical region yet, and so far no-one's been particularly close.
 

roubaixtuesday

self serving virtue signaller
OK so hideaway is a reference to RSPB Slimbridge, the power station is Berkeley and...

... no obvious fit to landscape or road.

Bah!
 

Glow worm

Legendary Member
Location
Near Newmarket
Sizewell area?

I wondered that but couldn't get any of the roads to match up on Google SV. I then wondered about Bradwell in Essex hit the same issue.
 

T4tomo

Legendary Member
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No 4 on countryside magazines top 10 seal watching spots
 

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Aravis

Putrid Donut
Location
Gloucester
Well done @T4tomo, spot on.

It would have been difficult to see this without knowing what you were looking at, but the uneven skyline is the line of dunes beyond which there is a huge area of sand. This is used as a bombing range so is sometimes a no-go area during the week. The guidance we were given was to keep an eye on the radar device on top of the square building - when that stops rotating there will be no more action that day. Typically this happened in early afternoon, after which we could walk out to survey the damage and go for a swim with the seals. I suspect some of them had been through the rescue centre a little further down the coast. The would swim up to a few feet away when we were on land, and one brushed past my arm when swimming. I suspect that swimming there isn't particularly safe, but sometimes these things have to be done.

The house was a good size with a large wildish garden, and our own path across the dunes to the sea. From the garden it was impossible to hear any road noise. It was a place I couldn't have recommended more highly, but sadly I had an email from the owner in around 2018 to say that it was permanently withdrawn with immediate effect.

Hidey-hole was hinting at (Donna) Nook, as I'm sure is now obvious.

Looking forward to the next!
 

T4tomo

Legendary Member
I was a bit south when looking around the Wash (seals on N. Norfolk coast) and was looking at power stations, as soon as I focussed on seals, Donna Nook stood out on lucky google.. partial thanks to @roubaixtuesday, with pointing out Seal Sands being nowhere near that scenic. which got me thinking you can see seals up most of the east coast but very few places are that flat, so I wonder where else....

let me have a think...
 
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