Game: Name that road!

[Aravis]

I think it must be here then, looking eastwards across Gruinard Bay:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@57.9021877,-5.5593555,3a,15y,85.52h,96.98t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOHjBzkeT8bK4U3NHEbfbzQ6wdD0pYld_fk3pXL!2e10!3e11!6shttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipOHjBzkeT8bK4U3NHEbfbzQ6wdD0pYld_fk3pXL=w203-h100-k-no-pi-20-ya234-ro0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352

I happened to look a moment after the clue was posted.

 

[ColinJ]

I think it must be here then, looking eastwards across Gruinard Bay:

That has to be it - well done!

I thought that you had gone a bit quiet... I just discovered that I had somehow set your posts to be 'Ignored'!

 

[Dogtrousers]

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.

Germ of an idea. Hmm. Could that be the island that was infected with anthrax during the war ...

Edit. Should have pressed refresh before posting

 

[Mr Celine]

Yes, the last clue was a reference to Gruinard Island. It was time to get a bit less subtle as no one responded to my previous 'sand' clue - there is a hamlet called Sand to the south.

Well done @Aravis over to you.

 

[Aravis]

Thanks for that one @Mr Celine - great fun.

Identify the road, or if you prefer, spot the elephant: **

** Unfortunately, on closer inspection I've realised it's just out of sight.

 

[Mr Celine]

Here:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.0...SXzbjNnJS-OCBq0GR41g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en

No idea what the elephant refers to. Having attempted to walk the Southern Upland Way many years ago I thought it looked like Galloway. The SUW actually goes over the hill to the right, and I have a photo of a dispairing and knackered looking Mrs Celine at the top of it! We gave up two days later at St John's Town of Dalry.

 

[Aravis]

Well done @Mr Celine, always nice when the picture provides sufficient clues on its own.

As I was making the post I thought the distant hills on the right had a distinctive shape and made a mistaken assumption. Progress a little further and the true jumbo of the region really does come into view:

Merrick, the highest mountain in the Southern Uplands. John Merrick was of course the elephant man; I'm sure there's a good clue in there somewhere but, alas, I didn't find it.

Over to you.

 

[Mr Celine]

Well done @Mr Celine, always nice when the picture provides sufficient clues on its own.

As I was making the post I thought the distant hills on the right had a distinctive shape and made a mistaken assumption. Progress a little further and the true jumbo of the region really does come into view:

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Merrick, the highest mountain in the Southern Uplands. John Merrick was of course the elephant man; I'm sure there's a good clue in there somewhere but, alas, I didn't find it.

Over to you.

I always think of John Hurt as the elephant man!!
Distant Merrick from the top of the hill 300m from the NTR location -

The pub was still rather distant too.

 

[Mr Celine]

Name that road...

 

[Mr Celine]

South of the Tweed...

 

[MontyVeda]

Only just noticed the river to the right of the tree... would that be the Tweed?

 

[Mr Celine]

Only just noticed the river to the right of the tree... would that be the Tweed?

If this was wordle you'd have green black yellow black black for the first five letters.
But the river in question has six letters.

 

[robjh]

If this was wordle you'd have green black yellow black black for the first five letters.
But the river in question has six letters.

So not the Exe or the Blackwater then.
But Thames, Mersey, Medway, Derwent, Wharfe, Ribble, Wensum, Witham, Itchen, Severn... there's a few to choose from

 

[Dogtrousers]

This is page 500!

 

[Aravis]

So what rivers fit the clue? Thames - don't think so. Tummel - wrong direction. Teviot...

Still took me ages, and I was on the point of giving up several times.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.4...4!1snQ_jM1zCsNDkUFwg_-PV6Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

I had a holiday in a cottage nearby a few years ago. I didn't know about the fords a couple of miles to the south - definitely missed something there.