Game: Name that road!

[Aravis]

To be fair that's where I've been looking 'cos any hilly area looking at 400m + moorland, is in one national park or t'other, so i'm not so sure on the quickly part

Isn't the 400m land up behind the house on the right? The land we're looking at, which I think we've established is to the north, doesn't have its altitude confirmed yet. Also I think @ColinJ has another clue up his sleeve, unless I've miscounted.

I'm waiting for the next one really, but I know from experience that if I go away for a few hours I'll find three or four more will have come and gone in my absence. Sadly not this one though, yet.

 

[Alex321]

I'd been looking in the Yorkshire Dales, but haven't found it yet.

 

[Buck]

I'm thinking Forest of Bowland but that's not a National Park but an AONB?

 

[ColinJ]

To be fair that's where I've been looking 'cos any hilly area looking at 400m + moorland, is in one national park or t'other, so i'm not so sure on the quickly part

Let me summarise and emphasise some of what has gone before...

It IS in Yorkshire, and we are not in (or looking at) the NY Moors.

It IS in Yorkshire, and we ARE in (or looking at) the Yorkshire Dales.

I fancy we are viewing approx to the north, (trees have a slight kilt to the right) but i might be wrong.

You are correct.

It isn't super-high (270 m), but whichever way you look at it, it is always a hard effort to cycle up there.

It is very near the top of the road.

You can see that it steep from northish to southish. It is also steep to get to from southish, behind the camera.

... yes - the road name IS a 'bank'!

A bank in/to the south of the Yorkshire Dales. Looking northish!

Isn't the 400m land up behind the house on the right? The land we're looking at, which I think we've established is to the north, doesn't have its altitude confirmed yet.

Yes, that referred to the land up to the right out of sight behind the house. Some of the hills in the distance are 400-500 metres high. Maybe higher, some of them. I can definitely see 500+ on the OS map, but can't be bothered to identify every hill to check.

 

[MontyVeda]

MB hails from Cumbria, and Silverdale is near Morecambe.

...

Silverdale is only a few short miles from the Cumbrian border... in fact, Cumbria is a lot closer than Morecambe

 

[T4tomo]

thank god for that

lets here your epic tale Colin
here is @ColinJ on his way up..... trying to think up a worse clue than his Melvin Bragg one

 

[Sea of vapours]

Phew - I was pretty sure it was the Dales, but that's practically urban over there in the SE corner and I've never been along that road so my fear of not recognising a road I ride regularly has gone and I can step down from being ready to kick myself :-)

 

[Ming the Merciless]

thank god for that

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lets here your epic tale Colin
here is @ColinJ on his way up.....

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Damn my instinct was that the high ground you can see to the north is Simons Seat. But I dismissed that to look further north.

 

[T4tomo]

Can only get one church in this one, unlike the two someone managed earlier in the week....

 

[ColinJ]

lets here your epic tale Colin

Phew - I was pretty sure it was the Dales, but that's practically urban over there in the SE corner and I've never been along that road so my fear of not recognising a road I ride regularly has gone and I can step down from being ready to kick myself :-)

Yes, I can imagine that one living at the prettier end of Yorkshire wouldn't get down there too often!

It is a good destination or via point for those of us who have to make a bit of a trek to get to the Dales though. There are some nice loops which go to Burnsall or Grassington and go or come back that way.

My little tale involves former CycleChat member longers. (I haven't seen him on the forum since 2016 when he made a last appearance to rue Vernon's passing.)

Longers was really fit, and liked to ride fixed. (I can't remember if he rode conventional bikes too.)

I had organised a forum ride. The route to Beamsley escapes me, but we were then going up Lanshaw Bank to the position that I chose for my mystery road. A group of us set off and were riding along when I spotted longers waiting at the roadside ahead on his trusty fixed gear bike. He had decided to join us unannounced. I said hello to him and he asked if he could join us. (Me, glancing down at his bike...) "Er, yeah, sure, but do you know what kind of hills we will be doing today!" He smiled and said that he could always turn back if he got tired...

Anyway, after lots of ups and downs we eventually headed up Lanshaw Bank. The other riders spread out up the climb ahead of me. I was grovelling in the bottom gear on my triple chainset-equipped bike. Longers was 25 metres ahead of me, standing up and making steady progress. We hit that b*st*rd 20% ramp and I wondered how long it would be before longers hopped off his bike to walk the rest. Suddenly he started to slow. Here we go...! But no - he did NOT dismount - he only did a bloody trackstand, on a 20% slope!

He turned to look back at the view shown in my picture, said how beautiful it was, and then set off again with me in pursuit. He disappeared into the distance and over the crest of the hill...

 

[All uphill]

Oh, that looked familiar at first glance, but I can't place it. Somewhere in Hampshire/Surrey or am I miles out?

 

[T4tomo]

Oh, that looked familiar at first glance, but I can't place it. Somewhere in Hampshire/Surrey or am I miles out?

not particularly close

 

[All uphill]

not particularly close

Hmmm.

I know I've been there but can't pin down the memory. It'll come to me.

 

[T4tomo]

Can only get one church in this one, unlike the two someone managed earlier in the week....

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Bump for the midweek crew, i'll start thinking of a clue or two, but not as obscure as ColinJ's

 

[T4tomo]

A crazy rodent lives down the road.