roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
Well done! I looked at the parallel road the other side of dovedale
Game: Name that road!
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Well done! I looked at the parallel road the other side of dovedale
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
Dovedale gets very busy. But there are beautiful and deserted dales in the area.
My top tip is horseshoe dale:
T4tomo
Legendary Member
My top tip is not getting slightly off track trying to approach the stepping stones via Lindale, but mistaking the track up the rifle range for the footpath and then ending up scrambling down a loose scree slope into Dovedale instead.
T4tomo
Legendary Member
on the right lines, no fancy estate except the white Merc you can see ahead of the golf. Two sporting establishments, one surrounded by the other, may account for the manicured grass
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
A racecourse, with a dartboard in the middle.
T4tomo
Legendary Member
good guess - probably a dartboard in the pub you can watch the horse-racing from on the TV
lazybloke
Priest of the cult of Chris Rea
- Location
- Leafy Surrey
Could be a Torville and Dean reference to Nottingham. Work beckons, however....
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Or it could be a reference to Dancing on Ice - which would mean near RAF Bovingdon.
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
The village of Botley, in the Chilterns, near Bovingdon strangely enough(!):
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.7080792,-0.5694718,3a,75y,139.6h,89.94t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s9UMJTCl_DUpV7hRPBVAZ6w!2e0!6shttps://streetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com/v1/thumbnail?panoid=9UMJTCl_DUpV7hRPBVAZ6w&cb_client=maps_sv.tactile.gps&w=203&h=100&yaw=11.149127&pitch=0&thumbfov=100!7i13312!8i6656
But I wouldn't have had a hope without the steer above, so if this is deemed to be @Alex321's, I'll be quite happy. But I do have a couple ready to go.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.7080792,-0.5694718,3a,75y,139.6h,89.94t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s9UMJTCl_DUpV7hRPBVAZ6w!2e0!6shttps://streetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com/v1/thumbnail?panoid=9UMJTCl_DUpV7hRPBVAZ6w&cb_client=maps_sv.tactile.gps&w=203&h=100&yaw=11.149127&pitch=0&thumbfov=100!7i13312!8i6656
But I wouldn't have had a hope without the steer above, so if this is deemed to be @Alex321's, I'll be quite happy. But I do have a couple ready to go.
T4tomo
Legendary Member
The village is Ley Hill, but yes correct junction, In Bucks, but right on the Herts border.
Wasn't sure how many dancing on ice fans are on cyclechat, i'm not one but was aware it was now filmed up at Bovingdon. The cricket pitch and a 9 hole golf course are nestled around the fingers of the junction. I think you cross a road 7 times between leaving and returning to the clubhouse. Fortunately all fairly quiet roads.
Wasn't sure how many dancing on ice fans are on cyclechat, i'm not one but was aware it was now filmed up at Bovingdon. The cricket pitch and a 9 hole golf course are nestled around the fingers of the junction. I think you cross a road 7 times between leaving and returning to the clubhouse. Fortunately all fairly quiet roads.
T4tomo
Legendary Member
No you were bang on - Ley Hill is just into Bucks
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
No, you can have it
I'm not a Dancing on Ice fan either, but I had heard it was filmed there, not sure how I knew that though.
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
I did think it looked like chalk downland, and if that was right, more like the Chilterns than anything else. Also I'd spotted the building behind the bushes which I thought (correctly as it turned out) might be a cricket pavilion. I also know nothing about dancing on ice.
This is my next one, from 1967. Not a great deal of this remains, but there are features which should enable a match to be found. To have a chance you'll certainly need to look over and over:
