Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Old Lanes is an anagram of Lonsdale if that's any use.It's amazing what you can find in those old lanes. I wonder if my bridge used to be a wooden one and got rotten
Game: Name that road!
- Thread starter ColinJ
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Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
It’s not Kirkby Lonsdale and we are clearly looking for a stream rather than river
T4tomo
Legendary Member
and I couldn't see it in Thorton-in- or Burton-in-
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Lonsdale is the whole valley of the Lune.
There seem to be about 19 zillion becks and a similar number of lanes in that valley.
But finding roads with a beck running on the left with a side road bridging it is rather more difficult.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Thanks for doing those checks for me. Saved me wasting time
T4tomo
Legendary Member
it may not even be a proper side road, could be entrance to a property. yes the Lune is quite a long river, so would be a wooly-ish clue, unless
"I wonder if my bridge used to be a wooden one and got rotten" is more precise once solved
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
It’s turned into give us 50 weird clues, rather than name this road
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I was wondering if it might be somewhere called "New Stonebridge" or "Wormybridge" or something like that.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
It is not Newstone bridge, Buxton
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I've given up on messing around with google maps and streetview. I just try to solve the clues and leave the streetviewing to you lot!
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
This intervention from @classic33 sounds as though it could be telling us something:
I thought for a moment I'd found it in the village of Ireby, halfway between Kirkby Lonsdale and Ingleton. But I can't find a match. The fact that there's a Thornton in Lonsdale adjacent to Ingleton suggests that "Lonsdale" extends some distance either side of the river Lune when thought of as a region. Not very helpful I know.
It does look as though there's a churchyard on the right, with the distinctive gates and the yew trees. But this isn't helping me yet.
I thought for a moment I'd found it in the village of Ireby, halfway between Kirkby Lonsdale and Ingleton. But I can't find a match. The fact that there's a Thornton in Lonsdale adjacent to Ingleton suggests that "Lonsdale" extends some distance either side of the river Lune when thought of as a region. Not very helpful I know.
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I prefer to do my map reading and Street Viewing on my laptop rather than my phone so I will check in again later to see if one of you has found it. If not, I'll try again. You are looking where I was thinking of looking so if it IS there you will probably beat me to it.
It never struck me before that Lonsdale was derived from Lune!
It never struck me before that Lonsdale was derived from Lune!
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
As does the 'lanc' in Lancaster and Lancashire, and they all derive from Loyne, I believe. (but that's an aside so don't try reading into any of that)It never struck me before that Lonsdale was derived from Lune!
The old lanes/Lonsdale clue does refer to the Lune valley in general, rather than one of the somewhere-in-lonsdale towns or villages. I also said it was a lot closer to home, so don't stray too far from that place.
There is a church nearby but neither it nor its yard are visible in the photo.
As for the stream, it could be a brook or it might be a beck.
T4tomo
Legendary Member
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
Well done, your turn!
