Game: Name that road!

[ColinJ]

I thought that it wouldn't take long - river estuary, station, cycle path PLUS my recent witterings about cycling in the Exeter area, and especially on the Exe Valley Trail.

Beaten to the post this time. I spent far too long looking around Arnside and Ulverston, with no luck. Then I managed to discern the first word on the yellow sign - but it was too late.

Exe ESTUARY Trail... As it says on the sign. I couldn't read it in the image as posted but magnified 1.5 x I could. I'll have to be more careful in future to only give the clues that I actually want to!

I don't have many ideas about the current picture. I'll have to think about what 'liberty' is telling us...

 

[Aravis]

All good deductions so far. The filename is certainly intended as a clue. I must admit I was only aware of the "i" spelling before (it's pronounced "reen"). Had I checked beforehand I would have seen that as a geographical pointer, rhyne would have been more helpful.

I think you're all trying to read moor into liberty than you need to.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

There is a moor Rhine watercourse near Bristol but can’t find a street view thst matches.

 

[Dogtrousers]

There is a moor Rhine watercourse near Bristol but can’t find a street view thst matches.

I found an Allerton Moor Rhine just S of the village of Badgworth, but again, no match.

"Moor" seems to be a common name for the flat areas round there.

 

[shnjmsn]

I was hoping it might be here, a couple of miles from home....... But I just can't tie up the gate or the trees..............

 

[Aravis]

That is spot on, @shnjmsn. The online images haven't been updated since 2009, whereas my picture is from September 2020. This shows the gateway and trees in 2009, the gate having been subsequently replaced:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.1...4!1sY8jEX03K6bz7RjJ-GM-1IA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I won't attempt to expand any further as @shnjmsn will know far more about the area than I do.

Your turn now!

Edit: the cows haven't moved much.

 

[shnjmsn]

Just happened to drop by after not checking these posts for a while and was lucky to have found something very close to home ! It's a road I do a lot and it jumped out at me, though the gate and trees did throw me....... now know why ! Yep, a little Somerset levels or moor road, as we call it here............. As opposed to what most people call 'moors' :-)

OK, here's another...............Name that road !

 

[Aravis]

Having looked at the latest picture for a while, I suddenly realised that I know where it is. The lake is Hawkridge Reservoir in the Quantocks.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.1...4!1sZSKCCBc4s1xK5ipoRu8TiQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

One of my favourite rides in Bristol days was out to Bridgwater, to the top of the Quantocks at Triscombe Stone which is reached by a road tarmacked to the top but not beyond, then back past the reservoir. If I went straight at it I reckoned the distance was 103 miles.

One occasion I stopped at this spot for a food break. For a while I'd been hearing the tell-tale sound of hounds circling in the hills, and as I sat on the wall an impressive stag came down from the bank on the right. He jumped over the wall, into the water and swam across to the other side, climbing out clearly unharmed. Some hounds appeared but didn't follow into the water, and I was happy to depart before the scene no doubt became a lot busier.

 

[shnjmsn]

Correct, first go !!!!!

That's a good ride from Bristol. I was going to the Foxy Bean cafe for a morning cuppa a few months ago which is a few miles past Hawkridge reservoir and I met a chap who was doing a similar ride from Bristol so he joined me...... Nice part of of the Quantocks, and close by to still one of only 2 hills in the SW to beat me, Crowcombe Combe !

Over to you............

 

[Aravis]

Nice part of of the Quantocks, and close by to still one of only 2 hills in the SW to beat me, Crowcombe Combe !

I had a humiliating encounter with that hill in 1984, entirely down to inexperience, but I think thereafter I always contrived to ride down it. The two routes up from the other side aren't quite so direct, shall we say.

This is my next one:

 

[Aravis]

👑🌬️🔒

 

[MontyVeda]

something something Loch... it's in Scotland!!

 

[Dogtrousers]

I had to blow them up a bit so I could see them properly

 

[T4tomo]

good clue

 

[Alex321]

good clue

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I'd just found that, and was wondering if it was actually right because the power lines aren't there any more.