Game: Name that road!

[Ming the Merciless]

Name The Future Crop...

Hops?

I would go for a vineyard

 

[ColinJ]

I would go for a vineyard

That was my second guess! If the crop isn't hops or grapes, what else grows on poles like those in the UK?

 

[Dogtrousers]

I would go for a vineyard

I was thinking that but I think even in winter the woody bits of the vines are visible above ground.

Plenty of vinyards in Surrey.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I was thinking that but I think even in winter the woody bits of the vines are visible above ground.

Plenty of vinyards in Surrey.

Could be a new vineyard field at the time Streetview went past.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

That was my second guess! If the crop isn't hops or grapes, what else grows on poles like those in the UK?

Pole dancers?

 

[GuyBoden]

"In 1962, hops in England were covering an area of approximately 8,200 ha. Since 1962, the area has declined and was stabilised to approximately 1,060 ha in 2007. This stability remains and since 2007 the UK crop has been about 1,000 ha."

I think they're Hop Poles, so only about 1000 ha. to check.

 

[MontyVeda]

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I think they're Hop Poles, so only about 1000 ha. to check.

or around 50 farms...

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https://www.britishhops.org.uk/growers/
"There are just over 50 British farmers growing British Hops in Great Britain today.
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I think T4tomo is in the south east... so start there.

 

[T4tomo]

They are definitely hop poles. Grape vines live from year to year and are generally hand picked, you'd have to be a frigging giant to pick grapes if they grew to the height of hops...

We also visited a cider farm very close to this

 

[GuyBoden]

It's could be in the Hopshires then.

 

[MontyVeda]

On the upside, I've enjoyed spending a day searching the quaint little villages of Kent and Sussex

 

[T4tomo]

On the upside, I've enjoyed spending a day searching the quaint little villages of Kent and Sussex

... despite Guy's map above getting a like / cool from me?

for avoidance of doubt - its in the "hopshires" area above

 

[MontyVeda]

... despite Guy's map above getting a like / cool from me?

...

That appeared today. Much of my searching was yesterday

 

[GuyBoden]

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.3...4!1s533Lk5bEjnqHIIeYRgXV8w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

I think I've found it, good pic, good game.

 

[T4tomo]

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https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.3...4!1s533Lk5bEjnqHIIeYRgXV8w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

I think I've found it, good pic, good game.

well done @GuyBoden

over to you.

 

[GuyBoden]

well done @GuyBoden

over to you.

You gave some nicely timed hints that made a good game.