Game: Name that road!

[Solocle]

This is one you will recognise if you have ridden it, although the road surface has been cleaned up since Google visited.
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To make it a little easier for those not lucky enough to have not ridden it, Simon Warren has a nearby climb in his top 20 list, but he should have picked this one instead.

Top 20... is it in Devon?

 

[Milkfloat]

Sorry, I should have written first 20 rather than top. So to make it a little easier, Warren‘s climb and another very close to it have hosted the National Hill Climb Championship multiple times. However, my climb has never hosted it.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Got it. The road doesn't seem to have a name but it goes through Lark Stoke near Ilmington. Which is near Chipping Campden, which is near to Dover's Hill in Gloucestershire which is Simon Warren's #13

 

[Dogtrousers]

I took this in 2016. It's an exercise in perspective for cycling artists.

I could have gone and visited Big Ears nearby, but on that day I chose not to.

PS I think I'd best retire from this thread now I've got one. It's a hideous time waster!!

 

[Trickedem]

I took this in 2016. It's an exercise in perspective for cycling artists.

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I could have gone and visited Big Ears nearby, but on that day I chose not to.

PS I think I'd best retire from this thread now I've got one. It's a hideous time waster!!

I recognise that road! Flat with lots of pylons in the distance. It's the road towards Dungeness and never seems to have a tailwind.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.9...BtMDFg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en-GB&authuser=0

 

[Solocle]

I recognise that road! Flat with lots of pylons in the distance. It's the road towards Dungeness and never seems to have a tailwind.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.9...BtMDFg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en-GB&authuser=0

Drat

Reminded me of Poole Harbour a bit

 

[Dogtrousers]

Well done @Trickedem

You didn't need the clue, but in case anyone is interested the Big Ears are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_mirror

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Well done @Trickedem

You didn't need the clue, but in case anyone is interested the Big Ears are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_mirror

Ha ha I was searching for the Noddy theme park!

 

[Trickedem]

This is a long way from home for me. I can report that on the same ride I went through a village famous for a horse event. I also rode quite a distance along an old railway and beside a river with a fairly short name.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

This is a long way from home for me. I can report that on the same ride I went through a village famous for a horse event. I also rode quite a distance along an old railway and beside a river with a fairly short name.
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Damn you I cycled past that on a dinner dart to / from an Audax reunion. But can’t find the place on Google. Will have to look on OS as it’s location is distinctive when viewing the contours where it is located.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Got it with OS on bing maps

Bowden Hill - I was scrolling the zoomed out Bing OS map and name jumped out at me.

https://goo.gl/maps/eQ6SGJTnqGp7H2Ew5

I will post a road tomorrow when on PC with access to photos.

 

[Trickedem]

Got it with OS on bing maps

Bowden Hill - I was scrolling the zoomed out Bing OS map and name jumped out at me.

https://goo.gl/maps/eQ6SGJTnqGp7H2Ew5

I will post a road tomorrow when on PC with access to photos.

Well done. A cracking hill with great views

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Well done. A cracking hill with great views

Yep rode it both ways and enjoyed it each end of the weekend.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Right here goes.

 

[MontyVeda]

Right here goes.

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a horizon that flat instantly makes me think of The Fens, and it seems to be sloping left to right, so I'm guessing you're heading west