Game: Name that road!

[Tribansman]

Looks a bit like the A859 going north on Harris by Seilebost, but doesn't seem the right proportions so probably not there

 

[swansonj]

The view north-west across Upper Loch Torridon from the A896 can be made to reproduce the left-hand few peaks quite well, but not so much the hills to the right of the picture or the foreground.

 

[slow scot]

I’m guessing the main hill to be either Slioch or Stac Pollaidh. But there is always the poetic licence of a painting to be taken into account.

 

[Venod]

Where's the road ? or do we change the title of the thread to name that view ?

 

[ColinJ]

Where's the road ? or do we change the title of the thread to name that view ?

Funnily enough, I nicked the idea from the then walking forum where they were talking about views from mountain summits.

We have gradually slipped away from my original idea which was to feature exciting roads which we have enjoyed riding on, and which would encourage other people to ride them. It has become more of a puzzle than a source of ideas for new cycling trips.

I would definitely like to ride around the area in that painting but it would be good to see the actual road as well as the view.

I definitely would NOT like to ride round Coventry ring road, as posted by someone a few years back!

 

[Mr Celine]

For those who want to see an actual road here it is, about 50m from where the picture must have been painted.

The hill is neither Slioch nor Stac Pollaidh.

 

[ColinJ]

Can you tilt the camera up a bit!

 

[Aravis]

I've found it, sort of, in that this painting clearly depicts the same scene:

But the link is a major disappointment. I may have to create an account...

 

[MontyVeda]

i found that picture too @Aravis. Looking at the artists' stomping grounds, it could possibly be Northern Ireland rather than Scotland

 

[Aravis]

I'm really not sure, but this is the nearest to a match I can find. Renvyle in Co Galway is definitely one of the artist's favoured locations:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.6...4!1sP_GaLnrJAb0_jTZzxOpgkA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

[Mr Celine]

Clearly the picture was painted either from the beach or the machair behind it...

I've just discovered that although machair is Scottish gaelic there is also machair in Ireland.

The location you're looking for is in Scotland.

 

[Dogtrousers]

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

Or the Fiddler's Elbow

 

[Mr Celine]

To be more precise, it's on the Scottish mainland. There's a small beach on an otherwise rocky coast, with the nearest bit of sand being over 4km south.

 

[swansonj]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/HhCpqa5XANYMXjhMA

Another near miss, dammit. But, as has been remarked before, who cares if you find the road in question, it's the pleasure of discovering beautiful roads that you could imagine yourself cycling on.

 

[Mr Celine]

To be more precise, it's on the Scottish mainland.

Most of the land you can see is the mainland but there is also an island which may give you a germ of an idea.