Game: Name that road!

[Ming the Merciless]

looks like the view the other way up the road from your last one

Nah other side of that ford is an old sunken lane between a couple of lightly wooded banks.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Has the look of the Chilterns about it

 

[robjh]

Has the look of the Chilterns about it

Yes, that look is not deceptive

 

[T4tomo]

Yes, that look is not deceptive

It looks familiar, but i can't place it. its maybe one of those that looks like a few others and I've ridden one of the others....

 

[Aravis]

That is Kingston Hill, rising from Kingston Blount, near Chinnor:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.6...4!1sH3L8IJs0qmE3bv4oOcJyjQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I don't know it, but it was quite easy to find with the strong hint that it's in the Chilterns. It looks like the main escarpment so it was just a case of scanning along the OS map until the road with the right orientation and the wooded hillside appeared.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

That is Kingston Hill, rising from Kingston Blount, near Chinnor:

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https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.6...4!1sH3L8IJs0qmE3bv4oOcJyjQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I don't know it, but it was quite easy to find with the strong hint that it's in the Chilterns. It looks like the main escarpment so it was just a case of scanning along the OS map until the road with the right orientation and the wooded hillside appeared.

Ha I was about a mile away in my search.

 

[robjh]

That is Kingston Hill, rising from Kingston Blount, near Chinnor:

View attachment 620222

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.6...4!1sH3L8IJs0qmE3bv4oOcJyjQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I don't know it, but it was quite easy to find with the strong hint that it's in the Chilterns. It looks like the main escarpment so it was just a case of scanning along the OS map until the road with the right orientation and the wooded hillside appeared.

Well done. It was quite a sharp climb once you get into those trees as I remember.
Over to you.

 

[Aravis]

Thanks @robjh.

I'm about to embark on a heavy session of wallpapering, so I may not visit the keyboard much in the next few hours. This next one shouldn't present too many problems although finding the exact spot may not be so easy. Once it's been found please feel free to go on to the next without waiting for me - if you're sure that is.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Hard to be precise but based on the fence and bit of dry stone wall I'd put this as around here on Honister Pass looking down into Borrowdale.

B5289 - Google Maps

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I've now also spotted this, which I presume used to hold the sign indicating bends.

 

[Aravis]

Yes, that's it @Ming the Merciless. My dad would have been standing just a little further up than the camera in your picture, so the bit of road in your foreground is just visible behind the Triumph in the 1969 picture. My dad's camera was a bit closer to the road of course.

Over to you again. Wallpapering's going quite well. The main thing is that I've started.

Edit: the small humps to the left of the road provide a stable point of reference across the years.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Yes, that's it @Ming the Merciless. My dad would have been standing just a little further up than the camera in your picture, so the bit of road in your foreground is just visible behind the Triumph in the 1969 picture. My dad's camera was a bit closer to the road of course.

Over to you again. Wallpapering's going quite well. The main thing is that I've started.

Edit: the small humps to the left of the road provide a stable point of reference across the years.

The paths on the right give a solid reference across the years as well.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Here you go. Name this road. There's an obvious clue which will narrow it down.

 

[Alex321]

I bet it isn't flooded in the streetview pictures

 

[youngoldbloke]

Here you go. Name this road. There's an obvious clue which will narrow it down.

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Scottish Fire and Rescue Service ...... so somewhere in Scotland!