Game: Name that road!

[T4tomo]

OK, mine are always easy and this should go quickly. Locals will know it and non-locals will find plenty of clues in the picture.
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I've ridden through a few of the There's on 3 separate rides in that area, but never quite past "Here".

 

[Aravis]

Looking south-westwards along Four Elms Road from the crossroads in the centre of Four Elms, near Edenbridge in Kent.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.2...4!1sqFQUcnOg3GB4TEaqpR3ugA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Found by googling something like village pond petrol station village kent.

 

[MontyVeda]

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Found by googling something like village pond petrol station village kent.

I was googling for a finger sign erected for the millennium but got nowhere

 

[Dogtrousers]

That lasted over 30 minutes. Long for one of mine.
Over to you @Aravis

Looking south-westwards along Four Elms Road from the crossroads in the centre of Four Elms, near Edenbridge in Kent.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.2...4!1sqFQUcnOg3GB4TEaqpR3ugA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Found by googling something like village pond petrol station village kent.

The sign is packed with clues. Prancing horse of Kent, and four elm trees.

 

[Alex321]

That lasted over 30 minutes. Long for one of mine.
Over to you @Aravis



The sign is packed with clues. Prancing horse of Kent, and four elm trees.

I didn't realise you had photoshopped the sign, and thought it was a joke one, spent too much time searching for it

 

[T4tomo]

I didn't realise you had photoshopped the sign, and thought it was a joke one, spent too much time searching for it

brilliant, granted it was well photoshopped but I still found it easily, but by nefarious means. I recognised the kent horse straight off though.

 

[Aravis]

This stretch formed part of my first ever 100+ mile ride in July 1982:

Ambling along in the hard shoulder - what's not to like? If it could still be recommended as a cycle route, then I surely would:

 

[Dogtrousers]

I didn't realise you had photoshopped the sign, and thought it was a joke one, spent too much time searching for it

There is such a sign. I saw it on the "Ditchling Devil" Audax, it's at Blackheath in the Surrey Hills. Random internet photo (not mine)

 

[si_c]

This stretch formed part of my first ever 100+ mile ride in July 1982:

Ambling along in the hard shoulder - what's not to like? If it could still be recommended as a cycle route, then I surely would:

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Too easy with reverse image search. Couldn't do it based on landmarks and I'm otherwise unfamiliar with the road.

 

[Dogtrousers]

This stretch formed part of my first ever 100+ mile ride in July 1982:

Ambling along in the hard shoulder - what's not to like? If it could still be recommended as a cycle route, then I surely would:

I think I remember you referring to this on the forum and I have a rough Idea where it is. If my memory is right.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I've ridden through a few of the There's on 3 separate rides in that area, but never quite past "Here".

One of my favourite destinations when cycling in Normandy - a ride to Ver and back.

 

[Alex321]

This stretch formed part of my first ever 100+ mile ride in July 1982:

Ambling along in the hard shoulder - what's not to like? If it could still be recommended as a cycle route, then I surely would:

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So we know the motorway must have been created since 1982, and that part over the top of an existing road

That leaves a surprising amount of choice. I hadn't realised just how many new bits of motorway get opened each year.

 

[ColinJ]

I reckon that is the M25. Given that you cycled on it in 1982 it must be the last section to be opened, between J25 and J27. The photo must be taken from an overpass of some sort. If it is from a road bridge, I haven't found it yet!

 

[Dogtrousers]

I reckon that is the M25. Given that you cycled on it in 1982 it must be the last section to be opened, between J25 and J27. The photo must be taken from an overpass of some sort. If it is from a road bridge, I haven't found it yet!

This aligns with my memory of @Aravis' older post. Some of the M25 was built, and functioning as a road but not a motorway for a while so rideable. I think more likely to be around J20-ish. But I don't have time to search at the moment

 

[Willd]