Game: Name that road!

[robjh]

no idea where it is but that's the sort of road that's called... the devil's horseshoe

I immediately thought of the Devil's Punchbowl in Surrey, but firstly there's been no actual road on the old alignment for some years now, and secondly the other landscape features don't match. This looks more like northern/upland Britain.

 

[GuyBoden]

My first clue is that the NTR is not in Cheshire

 

[Willd]

My OS maps are from 2015 and 2016 and do not show the new estate either so I looked at Rothersthorpe Rd, a km to the east, but didn't try Kislingbury Road.

Mine are that old they're missing the A14, M42 etc. I tend to use them in conjunction with Streetmap

 

[lazybloke]

I immediately thought of the Devil's Punchbowl in Surrey, but firstly there's been no actual road on the old alignment for some years now, and secondly the other landscape features don't match. This looks more like northern/upland Britain.

I can understand your thinking, but @GuyBoden's NTR is more of a tight elbow over a v-shaped stream valley. The Devil's Punchbowl feels more like a half-amphitheatre, the radius of the road bend was 150m or so.

This photo from wikipedia shows the old road before it closed circa 2011.

 

[Aravis]

For once the satellite view is the most informative:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...x8f158f8d4f8b4cae!8m2!3d52.512112!4d-3.313106

It's a road I've often thought of using here, but it difficult to find an adequate capture from Google, a problem which @GuyBoden has handsomely solved. You've saved me a trip there with my camera!

 

[GuyBoden]

For once the satellite view is the most informative:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...x8f158f8d4f8b4cae!8m2!3d52.512112!4d-3.313106

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It's a road I've often thought of using here, but it difficult to find an adequate capture from Google, a problem which @GuyBoden has handsomely solved. You've saved me a trip there with my camera!

Excellent, a great bit of finding . Very impressive

This A road was the easiest route with a touring bike, tent and full panniers, when riding from Warrington to south Wales in the 1980's, there was a lot less traffic then. Too much of a distance for my old legs nowadays.


Over to you

 

[Aravis]

Thanks @GuyBoden. Back in the 1980s one of my favourite YHs for a single night away was Clun; I would head up from Bristol via Hereford and return via Builth Wells and Abergavenny. There were various ways of reaching the Wye from the Clun valley, but the grand loops was to head over to Newtown and pick up the A483. In those days I never thought twice about routing myself along such roads.

Anyway, here's the next. I think it's fairly obscure, and as an experiment, I'm happy to run this on a "20 questions" basis, where questions must have a definitive yes or no answer. So "is it anywhere near the Scottish border" won't get a proper answer.

Almost forgot, here's the picture:

 

[All uphill]

I have no idea where that is, but I want to be there on my bike!

 

[ColinJ]

I have my suspicions, but I don't want to give you any clues before... @Sea of vapours tells you where it is!

 

[Sea of vapours]

I have my suspicions, but I don't want to give you any clues before... @Sea of vapours tells you where it is!

Hmm.... I thought I recognised it immediately, but I failed to pinpoint it so I'll have another look. It certainly does /look/ local to me ...

EDIT: Also, @Aravis asserted that [he thinks] this is 'fairly obscure', and I'm not sure that that really applies to the Dales, Forest of Bowland or North Pennines, which is what I'm primarily familiar with and is what it does, most certainly, look like, so I assumed I was being misled.

So, to @Aravis, following the twenty questions experiment: is this in, or of, any of the three areas I've named above?

 

[ColinJ]

Hmm.... I thought I recognised it immediately, but I failed to pinpoint it so I'll have another look. It certainly does /look/ local to me ...

I have been scouring your locale too, but haven't spotted it... It definitely has a North Pennine feel to it!

 

[roubaixtuesday]

The roads from Slaidburn to either Keasden or Bentham are both very similar, but no cigar, as far as I can tell anyway

 

[Aravis]

So, to @Aravis, following the twenty questions experiment: is this in, or of, any of the three areas I've named above?

No!

 

[GuyBoden]

Is it Wales?

 

[ColinJ]

EDIT: Also, @Aravis asserted that [he thinks] this is 'fairly obscure', and I'm not sure that that really applies to the Dales, Forest of Bowland or North Pennines, which is what I'm primarily familiar with and is what it does, most certainly, look like, so I assumed I was being misled.

I thought the same about 'obscure' but thought that it might be an obscure road in a popular area!

Ok, my question then... Are those 3 objects in the distance to the right of the road wind turbines?