Game: Name that road!
- Thread starter ColinJ
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Or we could have a new thread of name the river/canal
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
Surely this is cheating, unBritish and the act of the worst kind of scoundrel?
[goes off to work out how to do it himself]
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
The arrow clue is the River Arrow. Not sure where the cauldron comes in.
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
T4tomo
Legendary Member
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
After traversing every navigable river in the UK multiple times and viewing every possible bridge (and plenty of impossible ones), finally:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.9...4!1snQapa2A3CWKJBFl2X3c2Tg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Sutton Bridge over the river Derwent, near Elvington in North Yorkshire. I've ridden over this bridge but at the time didn't register that the river is canalboatable.
I enjoyed the search though. Lots of new places on my "list".
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.9...4!1snQapa2A3CWKJBFl2X3c2Tg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Sutton Bridge over the river Derwent, near Elvington in North Yorkshire. I've ridden over this bridge but at the time didn't register that the river is canalboatable.
I enjoyed the search though. Lots of new places on my "list".
- Location
- Inside my skull
I’ve always thought images should come from photos you’ve taken out riding rather than grab anything from Streetview. But not created by me and not my rules 😁
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
That was the initial idea... but maybe it's only a handful of us actually take photos on rides. I know I don't very often. It means stopping.
- Location
- Inside my skull
It’d create an extra incentive to spot suitable photo candidates for this thread. With the right camera you don’t need to stop either.
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
That was my original idea, but...
I realised that is true so I changed the 'rules'.
The rules now are that you should have ridden there (as opposed to wanting to ride there one day); the road must be in the UK (to stop things getting silly - dirt road into the Amazon, anybody?
); and we should be able to check our ideas/search on Street View.Still, using your own photo is always a plus.
Oh, and ideally the road should be somewhere that other people would actually want to ride... I have seen many lovely roads in this thread and will try to ride some of them. As opposed to one memorable example - Coventry Ring Road... I lived in Coventry for over 20 years and never once felt like cycling on that!
Well done @Aravis of course its correct, the village over the bridge is Elvington it has an interesting Chinese connection, I usually ride this route the other way ie coming towards the camera, on route to Allerthorpe cafe.After traversing every navigable river in the UK multiple times and viewing every possible bridge (and plenty of impossible ones), finally:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.9...4!1snQapa2A3CWKJBFl2X3c2Tg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
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Sutton Bridge over the river Derwent, near Elvington in North Yorkshire. I've ridden over this bridge but at the time didn't register that the river is canalboatable.
I enjoyed the search though. Lots of new places on my "list".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvington,_North_Yorkshire
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