Game: Name that road!

[MontyVeda]

By referencing the Proclaimers, I was trying to hint at the number 500 - just as well I didn't try to use the Roman numeral!

So this is on NC500, and therefore on a through road. The vegetation has changed, softening the visual impact of the pipe but it remains clearly visible. The road appears to be unimproved.

My clue unravelling skills have let me down again. I got the Proclaimers hint and discovered that they lived in Leith, Cornwall and Fife... so spent the morning scouring Fife

 

[Alex321]

About here?

https://www.google.com/maps/@57.686...4!1sxTfJujNnzsVjuElZ3qTGUg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

https://goo.gl/maps/QrhxqKtuj1xtxhYv9

 

[T4tomo]

it might be at the previous corner but looks pretty close, taking water between Loch Bad an Sgalaig and kerry falls Hydro station. needle found in Haystack.
I'm sure Aravis will confirm in due course

 

[Aravis]

Yes @Alex321 that's the right stretch. If you edge forwards slowly you'll find the concrete block which was behind the car in my dad's picture. The pipe then passes under the road and can be seen rounding the corner above the level of the road both then and now.

The pipe is a pretty distinctive feature, and the A832 is the only was through in what I would imagine is a popular area so I thought someone might recognise it quickly. In 1965 it was very much "in your face" but the impact has softened over the years. I rode past it in 1983 on the way to Gairloch Youth Hostel and, eventually, John o'Groats.

Over to you @Alex321!

Edit: Did you notice the recently planted saplings in the 1965 picture? They could well be the sturdy trees on the left in the view above.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Did you notice the recently planted saplings in the 1965 picture? They could well be the sturdy trees on the left in the view above.

Indeed. I'd just been playing "Compare that Tree" when you posted.

 

[Alex321]

Ok, lets try this one.

It is a little away from my usual haunts (but not where I was on Saturday), it is actually about 2.5 years since I last rode on that road.

 

[Alex321]

For clues, think of the 19th century Ironmasters. Oh, and that road is not a through road, it finishes outside the church, though a footpath continues on past it.

 

[Dogtrousers]

For clues, think of the 19th century Ironmasters. Oh, and that road is not a through road, it finishes outside the church, though a footpath continues on past it.

I thought it looked a bit like the Clydach valley looking towards Black Rock, with the Black Mountains in the distance. That's near the old Clydach iron works. I went and had a look and it's similar but not right..

 

[Alex321]

I thought it looked a bit like the Clydach valley looking towards BlackRock, with the Black Mountains in the distance. That's near the old Clydach iron works. I went and had a look and it's similar but not right..

Right sort of idea, but further West than that.

 

[T4tomo]

Merthyr Tydfil is more ironmasters area, but the problem with looking for a chapel in Wales is the buggers built one on every corner.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Merthyr Tydfil is more ironmasters area, but the problem with looking for a chapel in Wales is the buggers built one on every corner.

I had a quick look round Merthyr but no instant inspiration.

 

[Alex321]

Merthyr Tydfil is more ironmasters area, but the problem with looking for a chapel in Wales is the buggers built one on every corner.

Right area now. That is bigger than just a chapel.

And one of the ironmasters is actually buried in the churchyard.

 

[T4tomo]

that Will be there then....
Vaynor Robert Thompson Crayshaw...
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.7...ICl9XzCjQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e4?hl=en-GB

oddly Google maps didnt have any building at all showing there, but it was the first no through route I dropped onto

 

[Alex321]

that Will be there then....
Vaynor Robert Thompso Crayshaw...
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.7...ICl9XzCjQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e4?hl=en-GB

That's the one.

I actually owned the white house in the photo from January 2000 to December 2019, so rode up/down that road every time I went out on the bike - but wasn't on strava or any other gps recording app then.

We a had first put the house up for sale in 2011, but then took it off again after a few months, and didn't try to sell again until 2018.

Over to you.

 

[T4tomo]

that explains why you rode down a dead end then!!

This may go quickly, but if a clue is needed I have one which is making me chuckle thinking about it.