Game: Name that road!

[Ming the Merciless]

Found it! Details to follow very shortly...

Royston Ln near Saffron Walden.

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What really caught me out was that there are no chevrons on the OS map there. I was expecting there to be 1 or even 2!

It is only about 10/11%, you need at least 15% to get a single chevron.

 

[T4tomo]

It is only about 10/11%, you need at least 15% to get a single chevron.

strange apology for posting a misleading route /clue?

 

[ColinJ]

Well done @ColinJ , that's a bit bit further down the Strethall Road that I posted yesterday, before the "Border" clue took me to Scotland, before the google street view pic was posted.

Oh, so it is!

It is only about 10/11%, you need at least 15% to get a single chevron.

* Cough *

I just checked... The steepest part isn't enough to merit a chevron - roughly 12%/1:8.

It looks much steeper than that but that would be because of the flatness of the surrounding terrain.

Not normally a killer hill, but I wouldn't fancy it towards the end of LEL!

The LEL GPS route posted didn't contain Royston Lane as part of the Audax route. As @lazybloke suspected.

It was on the version I found elsewhere...

 

[MontyVeda]

strange apology for posting a misleading route /clue?

Remember Ming is merciless

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The border clue being that the photo was taken pretty much on the Essex / Cambridgeshire border.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Nice lumpy castle thing

 

[GuyBoden]

I think it is this castle, I just need to find the correct road.

Edit: But, I could be wrong.

 

[ColinJ]

I think it is this castle, I just need to find the correct road.

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Edit: But, I could be wrong.

Ah - reverse Name That Road...

No, it is NOT Peckforton Castle!

 

[GuyBoden]

Ah - reverse Name That Road...

No, it is NOT Peckforton Castle!

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Well done, I was cycling around there last week, so I thought it looked similar to the castle in your pic.

 

[ColinJ]

Look more closely at the grainy zoomed image posted by @Dogtrousers!

 

[GuyBoden]

Look more closely at the grainy zoomed image posted by @Dogtrousers!

Yes, I spotted last night using my hi res big screen, that its on the coast.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Look more closely at the grainy zoomed image posted by @Dogtrousers!

You mean my state-of-the-art CSI grade image enhancement?

 

[GuyBoden]

This is a better photo.

 

[ColinJ]

You now have the right castle. The wrong road, of course though...

 

[GuyBoden]

You now have the right castle. The wrong road, of course though...

I'm guessing Red Brow, but, as usual, I can't find the exact spot.