Game: Name that road!

[ColinJ]

Or cunning double-bluff?

That did occur to me, but I thought it was just me being cynical!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Or cunning double-bluff?

Either you or @ColinJ is correct in whether it was a mistake or bluff.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

North - umberland. Up above Allenheads looking across the valley?

Nope

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Been nearly a lifetime since I visited North Umberland. Keep meaning to go back.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Otterburn Ranges?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Been nearly a lifetime since I visited North Umberland. Keep meaning to go back.

Wonderfully empty landscapes with a number of great roads to ride.

 

[ColinJ]

Wonderfully empty landscapes with a number of great roads to ride.

I have never been to that area. I might use some of my newly granted state pension to treat myself to a cycling/walking holiday there this year.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

It is south of Northumbria

 

[Sea of vapours]

Is it looking southward-ish, from somewhere up high above Westgate, at the road which goes from Westgate over to Newbiggin? That big zig zag looks very much like the one about 1.5km from the top of that climb to Swinhope Head.

Edit: And whether it is or not, that's a very fine road indeed and I commend it from either side

 

[ColinJ]

Is it looking southward-ish, from somewhere up high above Westgate, at the road which goes from Westgate over to Newbiggin? That big zig zag looks very much like the one about 1.5km from the top of that climb.

I am just looking there myself!

Was the picture taken from another road?

 

[ColinJ]

It looks pretty good from the direction of Lune Moor!

 

[Sea of vapours]

It looks pretty good from the direction of Lune Moor!

That's where I was meaning. Without knowing that the photo is from a road, I'm disinclined to hunt for the actual view; I just thought the zig zag looked rather familiar.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Is it looking southward-ish, from somewhere up high above Westgate, at the road which goes from Westgate over to Newbiggin? That big zig zag looks very much like the one about 1.5km from the top of that climb to Swinhope Head.

Edit: And whether it is or not, that's a very fine road indeed and I commend it from either side

It is further south than that and thanks for the recommendation

 

[Ming the Merciless]

That's where I was meaning. Without knowing that the photo is from a road, I'm disinclined to hunt for the actual view; I just thought the zig zag looked rather familiar.

You won’t find the view as it’s not from a road. Hence my comment it’s from a viewpoint you wouldn’t normally get of the road. But it should be distinctive enough to find.

 

[Sea of vapours]

How about the road up Mam Tor from the north then? I've not been there for a couple of decades but it sort of looks right.