Game: Name that road!

[nickyboy]

Well done @ColinJ excellent deductions and decryptions. Over to you, after your well deserved sleep.

I thought that @Dogtrousers would find it, when he nearly decrypted the second clue, guessing a probable "Owl and the Pussy cat" pub sign.

All good fun.

Edit: "The Cat and Fiddle" climb is not enjoyable anymore, due to sharing the busy road with too many large HGV's. It's not very steep either.

Goddamit, that's another one I occasionally ride. Up Coalpit Lane from Sutton, stop at Teggs Nose CP cafe (on the left in the photo) and then home via Bollington

 

[ColinJ]

Over to you, after your well deserved sleep.

I have only just woken up after being awake until 05:00! I forgot to switch my alarm on...

Anyway, now that I am finally conscious I will get up and post my next road shortly!

 

[ColinJ]

A good night's sleep and a negative Covid test too!

Players ready...

Name That Road!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Goddamit, that's another one I occasionally ride. Up Coalpit Lane from Sutton, stop at Teggs Nose CP cafe (on the left in the photo) and then home via Bollington

Me too. I was up at Teggs Nose with my mother just over a month ago.

 

[GuyBoden]

That's a very distinctive looking church with a spire.

 

[Venod]

Otter Lee Lane Sowerby Bridge.

 

[GuyBoden]

Well done, that was quick, I couldn't find the distinctive church, I looked at the chapel in steep lane Sowerby, but it's St Mary's Church in Cottonstones village, good stuff.

 

[Venod]

Well Colin has seen my previous post and not said its wrong so here is another.

I am having difficulty with a suitable challenge, Its a case of not too easy not too hard, this is a road I have been along but it doesn't feature in my memory.

 

[ColinJ]

Well done, @Venod. Down to the church at Cotton Stones.

Those are some of my favourite local lanes. Very little traffic and lovely scenery, with lots of steep little climbs and descents. Craggies cafe is nearby.

 

[Venod]

Well done, that was quick, I couldn't find the distinctive church

At first I thought maybe Dartmoor but the walls shouted West Yorkshire/Lancashire at me, I looked at the OS map for a church with a downhill approaching it around Colin's patch, and hey presto there it was.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Well done, @Venod. Down to the church at Cotton Stones.

Those are some of my favourite local lanes. Very little traffic and lovely scenery, with lots of steep little climbs and descents. Craggies cafe is nearby.

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You need to look after your maps better @ColinJ That one's all crumpled.

 

[ColinJ]

I looked at the chapel in steep lane Sowerby

Funnily enough, I very nearly posted that one!

I will probably organise a forum ride this year taking in some of these roads, so keep your eyes open if you might fancy that.

You need to look after your maps better @ColinJ That one's all crumpled.

Ha ha. I have been playing around with the 3D map viewer in my Memory Map software. It can give a good idea how hilly (or flat!) an area is.

The image posted not only shows the Cotton Stones church, but also the Cragg Vale climb (England's longest continuous ascent) and Ripponden New Bank/Elland Rd, my previous road.

 

[GuyBoden]

Is there a clue for the river's name?

Edit: Wrong again, it's not even a river.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Been looking in Yorkshire Wolds but can’t find match. Too many roads hedge lined.

 

[Venod]

Is there a clue for the river's name?

The clue is its not a river, there is a water course that runs into and out of it called ------ Brook