Game: Name that road!
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Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Yes
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Yep, that’s the second clue
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
You are heading to a place that for much of its history was an Island.
BrumJim
Forum Stalwart (won't take the hint and leave...)
- Location
- Selly Oak, Birmingham
OK, near Ely then.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Much of fens towns were islands before they were drained, Ely is but one example.
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Must admit, that was my first thought, but I can't find anything near Ely.
Then as Ming says, many other fenland towns/villages were once islands, t's just the best known..
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
The picture was taken in the morning.
Mr Celine
Discordian
- Location
- Waxing my moustache
The old islands show up well on LIDAR surveys, which capture small differences in elevation. These are now available on the NLS site
https://maps.nls.uk/index.html
This is part of Cambridgeshire side by side with an OS map -
I would suggest looking around the green areas.
As an aside, the scottish LIDAR surveys have only recently been added and poring over these recently inspired my Dere Street entry. The Scottish part of the survey has been processed to give shading from three different directions in blue, red and yellow, which helps pick out small features. The English one above is only shaded in one direction in green.
Below is a zoomed in part of Dere Street a couple of miles south of my entry, where it is only a faint track across moorland. Not only does the road show up well, but the small quarry pits at the side of the road from where the stone and gravel used to build it was dug still show up clearly after nearly 2000 years.
https://maps.nls.uk/index.html
This is part of Cambridgeshire side by side with an OS map -
I would suggest looking around the green areas.
As an aside, the scottish LIDAR surveys have only recently been added and poring over these recently inspired my Dere Street entry. The Scottish part of the survey has been processed to give shading from three different directions in blue, red and yellow, which helps pick out small features. The English one above is only shaded in one direction in green.
Below is a zoomed in part of Dere Street a couple of miles south of my entry, where it is only a faint track across moorland. Not only does the road show up well, but the small quarry pits at the side of the road from where the stone and gravel used to build it was dug still show up clearly after nearly 2000 years.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
Can you post that in the 'maps' thread @Mr Celine ...otherwise I'll never find it 
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
The road will take you to a market town.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
with all the clues given, this should be easy...
Cambridgeshire
unfenced road... appears to be generally more than 4 meters wide (so dashed amber rather than yellow, orange or red on an OS map... or maybe not
)
RH Bend... with side road/track on the left
Wind turbine (either solitary or part of a farm)
headed to a market town that used to be an island (there's only seven listed in Cambs on wikipedia, but it's not been stated that the market town is in Cambs)
photo taken in the morning... so is the camera pointing northish? (I can never work these out)
...plus those distant trees.
so many things that should stand out a mile on an OS map.
But I'm still stumped!
Cambridgeshire
unfenced road... appears to be generally more than 4 meters wide (so dashed amber rather than yellow, orange or red on an OS map... or maybe not
)RH Bend... with side road/track on the left
Wind turbine (either solitary or part of a farm)
headed to a market town that used to be an island (there's only seven listed in Cambs on wikipedia, but it's not been stated that the market town is in Cambs)
photo taken in the morning... so is the camera pointing northish? (I can never work these out)
...plus those distant trees.
so many things that should stand out a mile on an OS map.
But I'm still stumped!
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Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I was pondering Downham Market, which is just outside Cambridgeshire. Roads from March (in Cambs) to DM pass through an area with plenty of wind turbines. I found plenty of almost-but-not-quite bits of road. I have no idea whether any of those places used to be islands.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Market town is in Cambridgeshire
robjh
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
I ride up through the Fens quite a bit and I've still no idea where it is. From the look of the road I would start with the A roads, then try the B's but nothing below that. March or Wisbech area?
