Game: Name that road!

[Venod]

Name that road.

 

[MontyVeda]

I'd have to really love my farm!

I wonder if the family have ever had tests to see what the air pollution from thousands of passing vehicles is doing to them...

it's probably a lot better than living in the middle of a city, like most of us do

 

[ColinJ]

it's probably a lot better than living in the middle of a city, like most of us do

You are right - I just found this...

The story goes that when the M62 was built on the moors above Huddersfield in the late 1960s, the owner, Ken Wild, refused to sell his land, and so the 18th century house and fields ended up sandwiched between the westbound and eastbound lanes of the motorway. In fact, engineers forked the road due to a geological fault beneath the farm.

Wondering how the owners get in and out? The farmers have private access via an underpass. The farm also has fences to keep livestock in, trees strategically placed to offer some privacy, and triple-glazed windows to keep the noise to a hum inside the house. And while it is surrounded by motorways, the farm has joined environmental and sustainability initiatives, such as providing habitat for key bird species and restoring peatland bog to lock away carbon and help fight climate change.

The current owners of the farm have said that as it’s always windy on this spot, the traffic pollution is blown away. To test this theory, students from the University of Huddersfield took soil and air samples and found that pollution is, indeed, surprisingly low.

 

[ColinJ]

@Venod's road is Reading Gate.

I stumbled across it! I thought I knew what area to look in but was struggling to find those buildings.

In the end I used satellite view on Google Maps. I thought I had seen the structures from above so I switched to Street View and found that what I was looking at was wrong. Then I noticed a blob on the horizon with a distinctive shape, which on investigation turned out to be what I was looking for!

 

[Venod]

@Venod's road is Reading Gate.

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I stumbled across it! I thought I knew what area to look in but was struggling to find those buildings.

In the end I used satellite view on Google Maps. I thought I had seen the structures from above so I switched to Street View and found that what I was looking at was wrong. Then I noticed a blob on the horizon with a distinctive shape, which on investigation turned out to be what I was looking for!

Well done @ColinJ it's an old peat factory, the road is a dead end but there is a track (not a PROW) that runs South Easterly in front of the factory this connects to other roads towards Crowle, it is used by cyclists, its not paved but not too rough.

Over to you.

Unpaved track highlighted in red.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Ha thought it’d be somewhere round there but hadn’t got round to looking. Usually use the A161 when heading to York, as for an A road, it’s not busy as all on the weekend.

 

[ColinJ]

Well done @ColinJ it's an old peat factory, the road is a dead end but there is a track (not a PROW) that runs South Easterly in front of the factory this connects to other roads towards Crowle, it is used by cyclists, its not paved but not too rough.

Ah - I was wondering why you would cycle down a dead-end road like that!

Here is my next one. Attentive forum members should get this pretty easily...

Name That Road!

 

[MontyVeda]

Ah - I was wondering why you would cycle down a dead-end road like that!

Here is my next one. Attentive forum members should get this pretty easily...

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Name That Road!

That'll be the junction of Back lane and Halifax Road...

 

[ColinJ]

It should is!

The WWII pillbox on the right is a massive clue. I have also included the tough climb in the distance towards Hebden Bridge in many posts.

Did you know the road or did the pillbox give it away?

Anyway - over to you.

 

[MontyVeda]

...

Did you know the road or did the pillbox give it away?

Anyway - over to you.

pillbox search

in a similar vein...

Name the road... or just locate it, since it doesn't appear to have a name

 

[ColinJ]

It would be asking too much for that to be another pillbox... (I'll do a search just in case, but then I will switch to other fortifications!)

 

[MontyVeda]

'in a similar vein' is a clue that it is another pillbox... but unlike your pillbox, mine isn't pinpointed on GG maps.

 

[ColinJ]

'in a similar vein' is a clue that it is another pillbox... but unlike your pillbox, mine isn't pinpointed on GG maps.

I suspected that it was!

I went to download a UK pillbox map but MalwareBytes started sounding alarms and asked me if I REALLY wanted to download that file... Er, maybe not then!

I'll look for another map elsewhere.

 

[MontyVeda]

Whilst this lane doesn't have a name, you need to be looking at old lanes

 

[ColinJ]

Near Devil's Bridge, Kirkby Lonsdale.

I found this interesting site which has an overlay showing all the defensive structures in the country, and then just searched outwards from Lancaster!