Game: Name that road!

[BrumJim]

I was looking at a list of the most popular cars on UK roads, not where the cars were made!

There is a much higher concentration of Rover cars around where the photo was taken (thought I could fool you by showing a rural scene from an urban environment), just down the road from the Longbridge plant. Probably due to a combination of loyalty to the locals, and Rover offering a generous discount on their own cars to their workers.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

There are a surprising number of fords in Birmingham.

I read that as a "surprising number of fjords in Birmingham".

Which would be truly surprising, to be fair.

 

[MontyVeda]

Former airfield?

Looking at what could be a walled garden to the right, old barn to the left, what looks like newbuild residential housing behind those trees and that older house in the middle distance, plus what might have been an avenue of trees, I'm thinking it could be the grounds of a (former) country estate.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I read that as a "surprising number of fjords in Birmingham".

Which would be truly surprising, to be fair.

You’d be surprised what you find on the canals

 

[MontyVeda]

There are a surprising number of fords in Birmingham.

and yours is on the top row of GG images

 

[Willd]

Definately not an airfield and there's not much on the ridge-line apart from trees

I like the shed / summerhouse built into the corner of the walled garden

 

[classic33]

Looking at what could be a walled garden to the right, old barn to the left, what looks like newbuild residential housing behind those trees and that older house in the middle distance, plus what might have been an avenue of trees, I'm thinking it could be the grounds of a (former) country estate.

Former mental institution/lunatic asylum.

There's that bend in the road, almost as though what's there is out of sight to begin with.

 

[T4tomo]

They weren't in 2021, but apparently they are so far in 2022 - second position in the list behind Kia.

Ah that's probably a function of who has the most chips so is able to build cars. we just getting some through at work that were ordered back in october. 6-9 month wait on most new cars now.

It looks a bot Cotswoldy to me

 

[Dogtrousers]

I took one look and thought ... I know exactly where that is. Priors Marston. I checked and not only was I wrong but the location that I thought of looks absolutely nothing like it.

The fallen leaves on the street view pictures were similar.

 

[Willd]

Getting warmer - I'm thinking it could be the grounds of a (former) country estate. It looks a bit Cotswoldy to me. Priors Marston.
Freezing - Former mental institution/lunatic asylum.

 

[ColinJ]

I took one look and thought ... I know exactly where that is. Priors Marston. I checked and not only was I wrong but the location that I thought of looks absolutely nothing like it.

The fallen leaves on the street view pictures were similar.

I had exactly the same thought so I checked on Street View. Nope.

Thought I would remind myself of the steep, narrow lane out of the east side of the village but the SV car had not managed to go that way.

I am a bit confused though... I thought I had done the climb on my singlespeed bike when cycling from home of sister #1 in Coventry to that of sister #2 in Towcester. No way would I have managed it...

Ah, I just had a flashback - I had a good go at it but my legs seized up on the steepest ramp so I walked that bit. I managed everything else on the ride though.

Back to the challenge... I thought 'Cotswoldy' too. I will search on my laptop later if nobody else has found it by then.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Just as I always firmly believe, against all evidence, that the answer to any given Wordle should be ACORN, I'm now similarly convinced that the wall in the picture belongs to a forbidding former Victorian lunatic asylum*. It has to be.

* Probably haunted

 

[Milkfloat]

Got it at the first StreetView click - it is the cheats way to Edgehill, avoiding the long drag into the wind from Kineton Priors Marston was not too far away, just the wrong side of the M40, I will often combine Priors Marston with this road on the same ride, plus cheeky detour up Burton Dassett.
You are looking for the village of Arlescote - https://www.google.com/maps/@52.135...4!1s2Pv5J3d56-k-tBY2fwUmDg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

[Willd]

Over to @Milkfloat Most northerly hamlet in the Cotswolds AONB, history, about 10 miles SW-ish of Priors Marston and behind the wall:

Probably the only lunatics are those passing by on bikes

 

[Milkfloat]

Ok, so this is grab from a place where I nearly converted the colour of my bib shorts to the brown of AG2R Mondiale when I came into this corner a little too fast on a carbon wheelset with rim brakes in the peeing down rain. I was lucky that there was nothing coming the other way, although at the time there were a lot more trees and greenery blocking the view. I think it is fairly easy for someone who has ever ridden the road in either direction so no clues should be required.