Game: Name that road!

[MontyVeda]

No takers?

Need a clue?

It's in the North West

 

[Dogtrousers]

No takers?

Need a clue?

It's in the North West

It looks very flat. Seeing that your location is Lancaster ... the little city, I'm going to have a stab at the flat bit that sits behind Blackpool where the river Wyre is. I've done a few sample roads there and it looks similar.

 

[ColinJ]

No takers?

Need a clue?

It's in the North West

I bloody well hoped so, because I have spent a couple of hours looking at my OS map and Streetview out your way! (I am assuming NW ENGLAND!)

In 2 days time I find it is even more NW than that...

 

[MontyVeda]

I bloody well hoped so, because I have spent a couple of hours looking at my OS map and Streetview out your way! (I am assuming NW ENGLAND!)

In 2 days time I find it is even more NW than that...

Imagine your disappointment if it turns out to be north west Wales! (it isn't)

 

[Alex321]

Imagine your disappointment if it turns out to be north west Wales! (it isn't)

There aren't too many places that flat in NW Wales

 

[Aravis]

I don't think it's completely flat. It looks to me as though the road rises quite sharply as it approaches the house, and there appears to be some elevated ground behind the house on the right. Certainly not a fenlike landscape, more gently rolling.

The junction on the left looks a bit wide if it's just for the little road heading towards the farm, so maybe there's another road coming in from the left making it a crossroads of sorts.

Other than "probably Lancashire, north of Preston" I don't have any real idea. It's all too vague for a concentrated search so far...

 

[ColinJ]

I don't think it's completely flat. It looks to me as though the road rises quite sharply as it approaches the house, and there appears to be some elevated ground behind the house on the right. Certainly not a fenlike landscape, more gently rolling.

The junction on the left looks a bit wide if it's just for the little road heading towards the farm, so maybe there's another road coming in from the left making it a crossroads of sorts.

Other than "probably Lancashire, north of Preston" I don't have any real idea. It's all too vague for a concentrated search so far...

I have been searching quite hard in that area but so far haven't spotted it.

I did wonder whether @MontyVeda might have sneakily gone south of Preston nearer to the 'other Eccleston', but I couldn't find it there either.

PS We can't see pylons/power cables so certain areas of the Fylde/Wyre can be eliminated.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

There are two roads connecting Rainow Road with the Cat and Fiddle; Bull Hill Lane and Cliff Lane. They are equally unpleasant going up and not much fun going down

Cliff Lane is a favourite of mine, not sure why, maybe it's the emergence from the sunken lane into the open countryside. But only going up, unless repaired recently the gullies are eroded and very dangerous on descent IMO.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Roof looks a bit octagonal, but that may be an illusion. That led me to Lathom House, but no joy.

 

[T4tomo]

Roof looks a bit octagonal, but that may be an illusion. That led me to Latham House, but no joy.

not octagonal as the front windows are all in same plane.

decent sized pad though

 

[MontyVeda]

It is a decent sized pad.

Aravis is quite warm; rolling landscape rather than fenland flat, north of Preston, but it's not on a crossroads.

Here's todays clue...

 

[figbat]

 

[MontyVeda]

Well done @figbat

Was it the clue?

edit... ah yes, about the house.
When I was a scruffy hippy in my early 20s, I was in a relationship with a woman called Nikki who eventually took me to meet her parents. As we turned off the A6 i noticed this house and thought something along the lines of "who the feck lives in a house like that?" and 30 seconds later we're pulling into the driveway, which has a mini roundabout! I felt completely out of my league... and I was.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Great clue @MontyVeda !

Unfortunately I was a bit late.

 

[MontyVeda]

I was half expecting you all to spend a day looking for a village called Rowland Richard Klingon