Game: Name that road!

[Ming the Merciless]

well done, and I presume good stalking of other threads...

on the border of Oxfordshire and Warwick(noford)shire for @Ming the Merciless benefit.

It was apparently featured in 3 men and a little lady - who know eh?

and this little gem from the wetroads site...


I slowed right down but rode though as did Nick, our respective OH's pushed bikes over the side ramp.

Ha, knew it was fordshire

 

[MontyVeda]

I remembered your Wales epic ride, I thought it looked Wales or Lakes, so a quick scan of OS with lakes with a prominent hill on the right brought me to it.

I rode past this very spot last Saturday.

Name that road.

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is that an NCR route sign at the top pf the signpost?

also looks like a touristy area; narrow lane but lots of pointers and a belt & braces approach to the no through road.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

is that an NCR route sign at the top pf the signpost?

also looks like a touristy area; narrow lane but lots of pointers and a belt & braces approach to the no through road.

One of the places on the sign seems to be two part with second part three letters. The stone and red tiles are distinctive. I’m sure we’ve had a road in this thread before with similar looking houses. I don’t think it’s the Cotswolds.

 

[ColinJ]

is that an NCR route sign at the top pf the signpost?

Apply CSI ultrazoom to the picture and read it for yourself!

(I just found THIS web page which shows the kind of thing that actually CAN be done.)

 

[MontyVeda]

One of the places on the sign seems to be two part with second part three letters. The stone and red tiles are distinctive. I’m sure we’ve had a road in this thread before with similar looking houses. I don’t think it’s the Cotswolds.

An awful lot of villages between the Dales and Moors have red tiled roofs. I've been scooting around the greater Harrogate area, following following the green dots on GG maps... not found it yet but it feels like the right kind of area.

 

[T4tomo]

yes it looks quite Yorkshire. venod i think is based SE of Leeds, but may not have ridden from home of course.

 

[GuyBoden]

I've been looking at a list of small villages with only a few houses around the Birkin area. No luck yet.


Edit: This is Yorkstone and it looks very similar to the stone in the NTR picture.

 

[Mike_P]

As a long time lurker to this thread pretty certain its not Greater Harrogate, looks more east to me and if it's a NCN sign NCN65 or one of those off it seems likely.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I wonder if it’s on the trans Pennine trail ?

 

[lazybloke]

I noted the apparent NCN sign, tiles and stone , and immediately thought Vale of York.

Not too fussed about directions but the amount of glazing in the terraced cottages and porch probably say something about that.

The junction should be what IDs the spot. I've had a good look on the NCN map in my target area - a quick search last night, a more detailed search today...
I reckon I'm not in the right area!

 

[T4tomo]

cowesby village

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.3...1lcf6TFTh_J-QFDbQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en-GB

I was looking to close to Venods home patch initially

 

[lazybloke]

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cowesby village

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.3...1lcf6TFTh_J-QFDbQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en-GB

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I was looking to close to Venods home patch initially

Good work! It was a trip to Pickhill in the early 1980s that made me think Vale of York. i was only 15 miles out :-(

 

[Venod]

Well done @T4tomo not far after passing this spot I went up here, which I was going to use but the Google car must not have fancied the climb.

https://veloviewer.com/segments/1811235

Over to you.

 

[Sea of vapours]

EDIT: Scratch the following. Veloviewer showed me a map in Scotland for some reason :-\ Weird.

Hmmmm...... I'm impressed by your attribution of 'not far' to a ride from near-ish Thirsk to near-ish Coldstream, @Venod !

A different Kepwick Bank perhaps ?!

 

[T4tomo]

just crack on if you solve it as I don't often check cc on weekends