Game: Name that road!

[Dogtrousers]

Now I look at it, it's obvious. You can almost see the where my parents used to live. Well, you would need super powerful vision that went round corners, but not far off.

 

[Aravis]

Quite right, @Alex321, as I hardly need to say. I think it's a good idea if once in a while a view can be recognised without poring over maps and waiting for clues of variable helpfulness.

Speaking of maps:

So there are three separate climbs close together, each rising by approximately 350 metres. So if they were climbed one after the other, interspersed with two descents and followed by the final 100 metres or so to the 518m summit, you'd have something of Alpine proportions. I've climbed each of them in my time but never more than one route on a single day.

Morris dancing?

Over to you.

 

[Alex321]

Ok, here you go. No name for this road, so Locate that road.

 

[dan_bo]

Rawcliffe Road and the river Wyre, Ratten Row.

Quite easy to find using Ordnance Survey 1:50,000.

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https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.8...4!1ssw6FXrpmNKpGyfpZG5yrPg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

I knew I knew that! One of my regulars these days.

 

[Alex321]

Not sure what I can give as clues for this one.

This is a screenshot of where I entered that road (which is now theoretically no motor vehicles).

 

[MontyVeda]

I'm fairly certain it's in South Wales and did find myself back on the route 81 east of Aberystwyth in those beautiful Cambrian Hills... probably too far north i guess, but I really want to go there on my bike!

 

[Aravis]

I'm fairly certain it's in South Wales and did find myself back on the route 81 east of Aberystwyth in those beautiful Cambrian Hills... probably too far north i guess, but I really want to go there on my bike!

I am thinking the same, and I'm still hopeful of finding it. I get the feeling I've seen it before.

Intentionally or otherwise, @Alex321 left a little message in the bottom left which confirms the direction of view, though the shadows are giving a strong hint anyway.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I am thinking the same, and I'm still hopeful of finding it. I get the feeling I've seen it before.

Intentionally or otherwise, @Alex321 left a little message in the bottom left which confirms the direction of view, though the shadows are giving a strong hint anyway.

Plus the height and gradient of the road, plus type of road.

 

[Alex321]

I'm fairly certain it's in South Wales and did find myself back on the route 81 east of Aberystwyth in those beautiful Cambrian Hills... probably too far north i guess, but I really want to go there on my bike!

Many routes too high

 

[GuyBoden]

I would make a guess that it might be within 30km of Cowbridge and it could possibly be a location on this Stava route:

https://www.strava.com/activities/6462173402

Edit: But, unfortunately, I've not found it.

 

[Alex321]

I would make a guess that it might be within 30km of Cowbridge and it could possibly be a location on this Stava route:

https://www.strava.com/activities/6462173402

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Edit: But, unfortunately, I've not found it.

Not on that strava route, no. But within 6 weeks or so

The "route" I was talking about when I said many routes too high wasn't a Strava route though.

 

[ColinJ]

Found it! Just locating exact spot... HERE!

 

[Alex321]

Found it! Just locating exact spot... HERE!

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Well done Colin. On National Cycle Route 4 (also part of the Celtic Trail).

This was the strava activity when I did that bit, last December. https://www.strava.com/activities/6399124271

Over to you.

 

[ColinJ]

I liked the picture of the river flowing down a little valley between two hills with a narrow country road rising up on the righthand side so much that I have decided to post one myself!

PS Er, in case it wasn't obvious... Name That Road!

 

[Aravis]

The moment I saw it I thought it must be that road that heads north-west from Hebden Bridge.

I was not disappointed:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.7...4!1si6XEhP0f7LM1Q-d5NkCCgw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656