Game: Name that road!

[MontyVeda]

I was thinking of trawling through the thread to make a note of mine. ...

I think it should be quite easy for you... I didn't put the phrase name that road on each of my entries so it really was a trawl through all my posts

 

[Aravis]

'Ordinary' could be 'Common'. I'm not sure if the 'but' and 'that' are just there to join ordinary to the end of the clue, or maybe either or both could be too...

Edit: Has the penny dropped?

 

[ColinJ]

Edit: Has the penny dropped?

I had thought of penny farthings but not had time to investigate, and I am currently being distracted by the last 80 km of a great stage of the Tour of Catalunya!

 

[ColinJ]

I'll donate another hint... There is a Penny Farthing pub in Aston Crews (Ross-on-Wye) so look towards Wales from somewhere round there?

 

[ColinJ]

B4222 - I was looking in the wrong direction!

Eventually the penny (farthing) dropped!

 

[Aravis]

That's the one, @ColinJ.

Despite appearances, from our point of view the B-road turns left towards the pub, and we're looking from an unclassified road with (ahem) no obvious name. It's anything but an ordinary spot, although the view of the Malverns is largely lost once you've passed the junction.

I took the picture on my ride last Wednesday. If I'm heading back towards Gloucester from Ross, my standard route is to come up past the pub and head off in the direction of view. On one occasion in 2017 I stopped for a photo:

Over to you again Colin I'm afraid.

 

[ColinJ]

Despite appearances, from our point of view the B-road turns left towards the pub, and we're looking from an unclassified road with (ahem) no obvious name.

Oh yes - how strange! I didn't spot that.

Here's another one that I had thought about doing before, but I don't think that I have. (I did a quick search and couldn't find the name of the road in this thread.)

Name That Road!

 

[classic33]

Is that a UFO/flying saucer above and to the right of the 20 foot gateposts!

 

[ColinJ]

Is that a UFO/flying saucer above and to the right of the 20 foot gateposts!

Even if it was, it has probably gone now!

I zoomed in on the Street View image and it is just a strange looking part of the cloud.

 

[MontyVeda]

Is that a UFO/flying saucer above and to the right of the 20 foot gateposts!

judging by all the photographs of UFOs I've seen in the Fortean Times... I'd say, absolutely yes... it is quite clearly a UFO!

Colin's roads looks familiar.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

 

[GuyBoden]

To help naming the road in this picture, I've consulted my personal drystone wall experts, concerning style, stone type and probable location.

The top stones, known as coping stones, was apparently the give away feature, but the batter and pinning were distinctive too.

The results of their exacting analysis confirmed my suspicions, that the drystone wall in the picture is probably in the North of England.

 

[ColinJ]

The results of their exacting analysis confirmed my suspicions, that the drystone wall in the picture is probably in North of England.

I confirm that the road and wall are in the the N of England. In fact, they are in the NW, which is an amazing coincidence, because that's where I do most of my riding!

 

[MontyVeda]

Oh yes - how strange! I didn't spot that.

Here's another one that I had thought about doing before, but I don't think that I have. (I did a quick search and couldn't find the name of the road in this thread.)

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Name That Road!

Finally! Buckstones Road nr Shaw

 

[Dogtrousers]

Finally! Buckstones Road nr Shaw

I'm happy to say I didn't look anywhere near there. It's always annoying when it turns out to be somewhere you looked.