Game: Name that road!

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ColinJ

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
Location
Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
T4tomo said:
Indeed, saw that- enjoy not many contour lines to cross in the vale of York. If you get to my road you've made a wrong turn somewhere and defo wont make it back home before dark
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It is positively mountainous, I tell you!

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Yes, I am looking forward to a nice long easy spin on my singlespeed bike!
 
swansonj

swansonj

Guru
I wanted it to be Twice Brewed. But half an hour meandering round streetview and the OS tells me (a) Twice Brewed is 250 m above sea level not 150 m (b) although there are lots of long straight roads about 4 miles from it, none of them have the required trees (c) it's long overdue going for another cycle tour in Hadrian's Wall territory.
 
T4tomo

T4tomo

Legendary Member
swansonj said:
I wanted it to be Twice Brewed. But half an hour meandering round streetview and the OS tells me (a) Twice Brewed is 250 m above sea level not 150 m (b) although there are lots of long straight roads about 4 miles from it, none of them have the required trees (c) it's long overdue going for another cycle tour in Hadrian's Wall territory.
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Hadrian wall is too far North, and Twice Brewed, although close, is over complicating the clue.
 
Aravis

Aravis

Putrid Donut
Location
Gloucester
I suggest this one needs putting out of its misery. I can't get anything useful from the anagram. Front Death? Fated Thorn? Fred Hatton?

We passed a pub 4 miles ago, and this is the one we could have had two pints. I don't think we are 100% certain that this pub and the one that brews its own beer are the same, but I think they probably are.

I can't see that the closed pub we've just passed is telling us anything at all.

This link gives a list of all UK brewpubs with an entry on the site. What proportion of the total this is I don't know, but I haven't come across anything that looks so comprehensive:

http://www.quaffale.org.uk/php/brewpubs.php

I was hoping that "two pints" means "quart", but that doesn't seem to lead anywhere - assuming "two pints" and "brewery" are indeed the same place. There must be dozens of regulation pubs with "quart" in their names.

Helpfully the linked page gives the dates of starting and (if closed) ending brewing activity. There are remarkably few still shown as active which started in the 1980s, and none of these appear to match the required criteria.

I give up. Time to go and get another covid jab.
 
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Alex321

Guru
Location
South Wales
Aravis said:
I suggest this one needs putting out of its misery. I can't get anything useful from the anagram. Front Death? Fated Thorn? Fred Hatton?

We passed a pub 4 miles ago, and this is the one we could have had two pints. I don't think we are 100% certain that this pub and the one that brews its own beer are the same, but I think they probably are.

I can't see that the closed pub we've just passed is telling us anything at all.

This link gives a list of all UK brewpubs with an entry on the site. What proportion of the total this is I don't know, but I haven't come across anything that looks so comprehensive:

http://www.quaffale.org.uk/php/brewpubs.php

I was hoping that "two pints" means "quart", but that doesn't seem to lead anywhere - assuming "two pints" and "brewery" are indeed the same place. There must be dozens of regulation pubs with "quart" in their names.

Helpfully the linked page gives the dates of starting and (if closed) ending brewing activity. There are remarkably few still shown as active which started in the 1980s, and none of these appear to match the required criteria.

I give up. Time to go and get another covid jab.
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Yeah, I'd been going through that same list yesterday, and not getting very far :sad:

We can be fairly sure from the clues that it is fairly far North in England, but short of Hadrians Wall. Even that doesn't seem to help much.
 
T4tomo

T4tomo

Legendary Member
Again quart is over complicating it, search for what I have given you.
The clues are here on this thread if you look.

Dogtrousers solved half the anagram for the place where the road is.
The pub and brewery 4 miles away are marked separately on the OS map, as the brewery moved out of the pub a while back to a building just behind it.
 
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T4tomo

T4tomo

Legendary Member
Well done, I can't believe it lasted this long.
A google of "brewery two pints" which have been in italics for a few days,
would have got you to Cropton/Gt Yorks Brewery /New Inn very quickly, where straight roads thru forestry are limited in number, even without the anagram.
 
Aravis

Aravis

Putrid Donut
Location
Gloucester
Dogtrousers said:
What was the full anagram and which half did I solve??? :wacko:
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"Half" was a bit generous. The bit you got was "End". The full answer is in my post above, now italicised as I'd meant to do earlier.

I'm afraid I can't resist going back to 1965 again. I have two pictures for you this time, of different places, but clearly sharing a common theme. The idea is that the person first person to solve both wins the round, so it's probably not a good idea to give the solution to one without the other. I'm have a feeling this might end in anarchy. :cuppa:

I've rubbed out the boats' names; they really would have made this too easy:

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