Game: Name that road!

[swansonj]

Narrow-ish but broad: I think that's clearly an unambiguous pointer to Broad Stand on Scafell....

https://www.wmrt.org.uk/advice/accident-black-spots/scafell-broad-stand/

 

[Milkfloat]

Narrow-ish but broad: I think that's clearly an unambiguous pointer to Broad Stand on Scafell....

https://www.wmrt.org.uk/advice/accident-black-spots/scafell-broad-stand/

Narrow and broad suggests to me Norfolk - it ain't there.

 

[ColinJ]

I thought that...

Which eventually meets aroad which is wider after a descent from the summit.

My use of aroad there hints at what I was getting at with broad earlier!

 

[T4tomo]

hmmm a B road over a summit with a forking footpath that eventually meets an A road. That's still a lot of close in OS map trawling...

 

[ColinJ]

N of Monty's suggestion. And W. Equally...

Somewhere with millstone grit dry stone walls.

And that summit is pretty steep but not crazy steep.

 

[MontyVeda]

for those wondering what Monty's suggestion was... it's the blue marker

 

[MontyVeda]

...
My use of aroad there hints at what I was getting at with broad earlier!

Which just goes to show how why I'm not cut out for detective work

 

[Aravis]

It's here. Just beyond the Dog and Gun:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.8...4!1s7a4jwyn7vwO2En65hS2ewQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Edit: not sure I understand any of the clues.

 

[MontyVeda]

If i had a pound for every time the search took me over the long causeway...

edit... it was the other long causeway, near Burnley i kept finding myself looking. Don't feel quite so much a muppet now

 

[ColinJ]

Edit: not sure I understand any of the clues.

I'll check back through them...

• Footpaths. You can see where they split on an OS map or on OSM. There can't be too many roads with a footpath splitting like that over the road.
• The shadows thing Monty worked out - to give the direction of the road.
• Narrow-ish. It isn't a big main road. Trucks have to wait to let other vehicles pass at parts of the climb.
• ... despite being broad - it's a B-road!
• Go north... It is north of where Monty suggested.
• And west... It is west of where he suggested.
• Equally... It is almost exactly NW of Liley Lane.
• Type of stone - millstone grit narrows it down a lot to the areas Monty mentioned.
• And aroad which is wider... to a wider, A-road.
• Steep gradient at the top... In case it isn't obvious from the photo.
• Pretty steep (one chevron on OS map) NOT crazy steep (two chevrons)

Over to you again!

 

[T4tomo]

had anyone other than Colin ridden over it, It would have gone very quickly given the very memorable "walling" that supports the cutting.

 

[Aravis]

This shouldn't cause too many problems. But having said that, initially I assumed it was somewhere else and couldn't get the modern images to match. It was only when I scanned the negatives that I found where it actually belongs:

 

[MontyVeda]

A82, near Glencoe waterfall, Scotland?

link:https://www.google.com/maps/@56.662...4!1s2hzoR76UgAxzy5z1BUE2dw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

 

[Aravis]

Nae bother! Well found @MontyVeda.

Remarkably unchanged at this point from how it looked in 1965, and not the Mallaig road near Arisaig which we traversed soon afterwards.

Over to you!

 

[MontyVeda]

It is remarkable... even the few trees look about the same size.

Had you not said that you'd scanned the negatives and found where it actually is, I mightn't have tried the reverse image search... but since you had.

OK, here's the next. It's not Scotland