Game: Name that road!

[ColinJ]

Allow a guy suffering from Covid a lie-in, won't you!

I watched a Michael Mosley programme last night about how harmful insomnia is and decided to catch up on my sleep. I do feel better for it.

I did actually prepare my next challenge before going to bed but thought I would let the inevitable discussion about the tower take place first before posting it.

I think the thread normally muddles on quite nicely without posting time limits. If anybody feels like they will not be able to post anything interesting for a while then can always offer the opportunity to someone else, as has happened before.

My new picture is on my laptop downstairs. I forget that I can share them between via my Google Photos. Will do shortly...

 

[ColinJ]

Ok - here you go. See if you can spot it without clues...

Name That Road!

 

[MontyVeda]

I started looking around Colin's local area, Todd, Hebden, Myth... but then thought... does that stone wall look slatey, or is it just stone?

Do we have a stonewall expert?

 

[GuyBoden]

Allow a guy suffering from Covid a lie-in, won't you!

I watched a Michael Mosley programme last night about how harmful insomnia is and decided to catch up on my sleep. I do feel better for it.

I did actually prepare my next challenge before going to bed but thought I would let the inevitable discussion about the tower take place first before posting it.

I think the thread normally muddles on quite nicely without posting time limits. If anybody feels like they will not be able to post anything interesting for a while then can always offer the opportunity to someone else, as has happened before.

My new picture is on my laptop downstairs. I forget that I can share them between via my Google Photos. Will do shortly...

Sorry Colin, I was just getting a little impatient waiting for my next fix of your addictive, extremely engrossing, simple but ingenious, game.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Sorry Colin, I was just getting a little impatient waiting for my next fix of your addictive, extremely engrossing, simple but ingenious, game.

I hear that the NY Times are interested

 

[ColinJ]

I hear that the NY Times are interested

That's the other one - my never-quite finished Android puzzle game. I actually have a decent prototype running on my phone but never quite finish messing about with it...

 

[GuyBoden]

Stonewall types.

I started looking around Colin's local area, Todd, Hebden, Myth... but then thought... does that stone wall look slatey, or is it just stone?

Do we have a stonewall expert?

Look at this picture, two stonewalls from Colin's recent NTR pics.
They both look like similar stone to my poor old eyes.

 

[ColinJ]

It is local millstone grit.

'Local' = south of Yorkshire Dales and north of Derbyshire.

PS Er... So, that's West Yorkshire to y'all!

 

[GuyBoden]

So, it could possibly most probably be in Calderdale.

 

[MontyVeda]

He gets about a bit so don't bank on it.

I figure by the sun and shadows that the hill is on the south side of a valley?

 

[ColinJ]

The valley question is complicated, but the shadows do give a good idea of the road direction.

I'm not going to answer yes/no to a narrower area...

It is a road that most of you will not have seen in person.

 

[ColinJ]

Hint: When you ask yourself if something is a clue, why are you asking that, and what conclusion can you draw?

(Making the reasonable assumption that you are not being deliberately mislead!)

 

[Venod]

figure by the sun and shadows that the hill is on the south side of a valley?

I have figured the opposite, sun from the south, road heading east then turning north, going up, so valley to the right and south, woods on the right, junction on the bend, built up area, but from my last bit of abysmal map reading I could be wrong.

 

[ColinJ]

I have figured the opposite, sun from the south, road heading east then turning north, going up, so valley to the right and south, woods on the right, junction on the bend, built up area, but from my last bit of abysmal map reading I could be wrong.

East-ish, north-ish.

Don't be thinking about valleys; that (probably) won't really help.

The 'woods' are pretty limited in size. I was going to say that the trees don't show up on the OS map but I was looking at the 1:50,000 map. On the 1:25,000 a small area of trees IS shown.

I had never taken much notice of that junction on the bend. The road to the right is very minor.

It is not in a heavily built-up area, but it obviously isn't in the middle of nowhere either.

As I suggested before - I am fairly sure that it is a road that most of you will not have seen in person.

 

[GuyBoden]

"in person" could mean "right there before my eyes", so I'm guessing in Todmorden.