Game: Name that road!

[Dogtrousers]

Unfortunately, yes - but not recently! I'm not sure what that has to do with Chorleywood - is that where the horrid stuff is 'manufactured'? (It feels wrong to call it 'baked'... )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood_bread_process

 

[ColinJ]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood_bread_process

And they said that this thread was only about identifying stretches of tarmac...

Interesting!

 

[ColinJ]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood_bread_process

Ah, this supports my comment about 'manufacturing'...

Criticism

In the book Not on the Label: What Really Goes Into the Food on Your Plate (2004), Felicity Lawrence wrote that the industrial scale of the Chorleywood Bread Process comes at a nutritional cost, requiring larger amounts of salt and yeast than traditional bread recipes. Andrew Whitley in his book Bread Matters: The State of Modern Bread and a Definitive Guide to Baking Your Own criticises the CBP for the inferior flavour and texture of the bread made in this way.

 

[Aravis]

From @Aravis previous post I think what happened was the motorway section was built but not opened as a motorway for some time. Which provided a road with a whacking great big cyclepath down the side.

I've been on a hunt and found Michelin's 1:400,000 from 1984:

So it's all very logical. A4 to Slough, A412 past Iver Heath and Denham before the lovely new A405 takes you past Rickmansworth and Watford. Then up towards St Albans and stop for a pint at the King Harry.

A 1986 OS road atlas shows the M25 complete, so the dates do seem to fit with what I remember. Also there's this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A405_road#Earlier_route

 

[swansonj]

.... (I did an elevation profile of the M25 and looked for a dip with those bends around it.)

Is it possible that some of us take this game slightly more seriously than others?😀

 

[T4tomo]

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it looks like the streetview car has fallen off the edge of the tarmac

 

[ColinJ]

Is it possible that some of us take this game slightly more seriously than others?😀

But... It's MY baby!

 

[T4tomo]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A405_road#Earlier_route

thanks for posting that, interesting as a current resident down here.

also from your old Map the M10 is now no longer - downgraded and erased and now incorporated into A414, and what is marked on the old Map as A414 is now A4147!

 

[ColinJ]

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I think that I would remember that stretch of road if I had cycled on it.

Once someone has identified it I will probably realise that I HAVE done - my memory is pretty useless these days.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Looks like we're coming off the edge of a plateau. The road looks to get pretty steep ahead, but in the distance, to the right it seems to be very flat. There's an area to the South of Coventry, which has featured on this thread before, that has a similar drop at Priors Marsden. But I don't think it's that area.

 

[ColinJ]

Looks like we're coming off the edge of a plateau. The road looks to get pretty steep ahead, but in the distance, to the right it seems to be very flat. There's an area to the South of Coventry, which has featured on this thread before, that has a similar drop at Priors Marsden. But I don't think it's that area.

Ha - if it DID turn out to be round there then I probably WOULD have ridden it when cycling between my sisters' homes.

 

[BrumJim]

Is that a very busy road on the right hand side of the photo? I don't quite think it is a motorway. My first guesses of the A46 or A5 don't appear to yield anything positive.

 

[figbat]

I was thinking Northants area, but not had a chance to snoop around yet

 

[Alex321]

Is that a very busy road on the right hand side of the photo? I don't quite think it is a motorway. My first guesses of the A46 or A5 don't appear to yield anything positive.

I hadn't even noticed that

It is pretty flat ahead and to the right, but will a row of significant hills on the horizon to the Left. My first thought on tose was Black Mountains, but I can't think of anywhere as flat as that photo in sight of them.

 

[Willd]

Is that a very busy road on the right hand side of the photo? I don't quite think it is a motorway. My first guesses of the A46 or A5 don't appear to yield anything positive.

Red herring. I'm afraid, there are some vans and a shipping container, but they're in a small industrial unit.