Game: Name that road!

[lazybloke]

Nope, spent enough time on this.
Need cake.

 

[ColinJ]

We are looking pretty much north from that gate across the fields towards the distant buildings.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I can see some nearby Ws on my OS map, but nothing that identifies the hill...

Ah, I just searched for Iron Age hill forts in Devon. I found a list of 74, including one on a hill beginning with W. No, it isn't that one. It is one of the other 73!

Damn it’s proving elusive , close but no cigar views

 

[Mr Celine]

What's proving elusive is bing maps is refusing to work properly and won't show more than half of the OS grid squares at any one time.

Is 'steaming' a reference to Buckfast, Beer or something else?

 

[lazybloke]

It was like that last night too; I've been using streetmap.co.uk.

Although it's "smart search" is more than a bit fussy with spellings. Okay, Newton Abbott is a typo, but you'd think it would find something.

 

[ColinJ]

Is 'steaming' a reference to Buckfast, Beer or something else?

I simply meant that he had got it right with 'Iron Age hill fort'. The protected site behind the wall is that of one.

Okay, Newton Abbott is a typo, but you'd think it would find something.

I'll make it easy... It is somewhere in the area between Newton Abbot and Exeter!

 

[Mr Celine]

Here. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.5..._RxMnC1odN2tgoeXmWSA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en

 

[ColinJ]

At last - well done, @Mr Celine!

The site of Castle Dyke fort is behind the wall.

I cycled along that lane last year and thought that it was a pleasant route. I was looking at it again because I was thinking that I might include it in my Devon forum ride in February, but I decided against it. Maybe, we will do it another time at a drier and warmer time of year.

Anyway... over to you.

 

[Mr Celine]

Someone once complained about the scabby insulation tape on my brake cables so to avoid offending whoever it was it's hidden behind a garmin. Plenty of clues on that to get you started.

 

[T4tomo]

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Someone once complained about the scabby insulation tape on my brake cables so to avoid offending whoever it was it's hidden behind a garmin. Plenty of clues on that to get you started.

That was me🤣.
That offends my OCD no more! 👍

 

[Dogtrousers]

Wherever it is, I commend the local white line painters for their commitment to maximising the amount of usable road surface. I've never seen lines so very close to the edge of the paved area.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Looks uphill, but either you're Bradley Wiggins or the speed indicates a down slope.

I'd guess likely somewhere in the Celtic fringes, but can't see any clues as to where.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Mid day with the sun dead ahead - I conclude you are heading south. Unless you are in the southern hemisphere ...........

 

[cougie uk]

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Someone once complained about the scabby insulation tape on my brake cables so to avoid offending whoever it was it's hidden behind a garmin. Plenty of clues on that to get you started.

Thank god I didnt consider a career as a detective.

Er North Wales ? Definitely somewhere that has trees and a road that bends to the right anyway. Oh and a house I think ?

After that I got nuffink.

 

[ColinJ]

Looks uphill, but either you're Bradley Wiggins or the speed indicates a down slope.

I noticed that. I reckon it is the uphill slope out of a dip which has just been descended into at speed. Maybe even that first dip on the profile on the GPS?