Game: Name that road!

[MontyVeda]

Think I've nailed it!

Castlemorton Common, right about here?

Wasn't there a free festival there back in the 80s?

 

[GuyBoden]

Think I've nailed it!

Castlemorton Common, right about here?
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Wasn't there a free festival there back in the 80s?

Well done, talking of free festivals, were you at Deeply Vale 1978 or was it at Pickup bank.

 

[MontyVeda]

I was at junior school in '78 so my only festival at that time was the harvest one

 

[Aravis]

Well done @MontyVeda. My picture was taken in March this year. Remarkably little change other than the brambles extending themselves a bit.

Over to you.

 

[MontyVeda]

Well done @MontyVeda. My picture was taken in March this year. Remarkably little change other than the brambles extending themselves a bit.

Over to you.

Thank you. First photo had me looking around the New Forest, then Guy reminded me that you live in Gloucestershire and i found myself briefly scooting around Crickley Hill but that looked too hilly, then the second photo took me back there until I thought it looked a bit Malverny and by a total fluke, initially dropped into street view at Hancock's Lane, a couple of hundred yards away from the actual location

Talking of hills... this was one of those memorable climbs

name that road!

 

[MontyVeda]

no takers yet?

A close look at that dry stone wall with give you hint as to which county it's in... and i know for a fact that a number of CC members have been up it.

 

[ColinJ]

I can't find a name for the road itself, but it is at High Brow Edge, on the Bay Way route.

When I rode the Bay Way with a friend, we extended the route up the side of Coniston Water to Hawkshead and then back down the side of Windermere. As a result, we missed that climb, coming to the top of that hill instead via Backbarrow and Brow Edge.

 

[MontyVeda]

Well done @ColinJ. I remember you saying you'd avoided it when i posted my last road on the Bay Cycle Way route. I think it's unofficial name is just a string of expletives followed by 'hill'.

Back to you

 

[ColinJ]

Well done @ColinJ. I remember you saying you'd avoided it when i posted my last road on the Bay Cycle Way route. I think it's unofficial name is just a string of expletives followed by 'hill'.

Back to you

It wasn't so much avoiding it as much as coming at the summit from a different direction. The Brow Edge climb is also steep!

I have another one ready. Give me an hour to get to my laptop to save me fiddling about on my phone...

 

[Dogtrousers]

I can't find a name for the road itself, but it is at High Brow Edge, on the Bay Way route.

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When I rode the Bay Way with a friend, we extended the route up the side of Coniston Water to Hawkshead and then back down the side of Windermere. As a result, we missed that climb, coming to the top of that hill instead via Backbarrow and Brow Edge.

Tut. Typical of this élitist thread to have a High Brow answer.

 

[ColinJ]

Sorry for the delay. A friend called round and distracted me...

Following my successful answer to the previous road, here is the next one...

I can't find a name for it, so... Identify That Road!

 

[MontyVeda]

The leaves haven't been swept up so it's not going to be somewhere posh like Yorkshire... so I'm guessing this side of Todd, and the camera is pointing in a southish direction.

 

[ColinJ]

The leaves haven't been swept up so it's not going to be somewhere posh like Yorkshire... so I'm guessing this side of Todd, and the camera is pointing in a southish direction.

The eyes have it!

 

[GuyBoden]

The eyes have it!

It's usually spelt "the ayes have it", so I'm thinking that the NTR probably has something to do with eyes or oculus uterque.

 

[ColinJ]

It's usually spelt "the ayes have it", so I'm thinking that the NTR probably has something to do with eyes or oculus uterque.

It was a response to Monty's (incorrect) assessment of the direction that the camera was pointing in. The eyes in that emoji pretty much indicate the direction of the entire stretch of road, rather than that particular bend. (Looking at a map with North to the top.)