Game: Name that road!

[Aravis]

On page 1 @ColinJ's rules can be viewed. They include this sentence:

It should be taken on a public road which you have ridden in the UK, or somewhere very interesting that you would like to ride one day.

So you can post a picture of anywhere in the UK as long as you can say you hope to ride it sometime.

I once used a 1969 photo of the Honister Pass. I've never ridden it, nor do I have any intention of doing so. But for the purposes of this thread, never say never.

As @slow scot has left a vacancy for the next puzzle, try this one, the validity of which is beyond question:

 

[ColinJ]

So you can post a picture of anywhere in the UK as long as you can say you hope to ride it sometime.

Ideally, you actually WOULD hope to ride it...

I lived in Coventry for 20 years but never once felt tempted to ride on its Ring Road, but that didn't stop someone posting the RR on NTR few years ago!

 

[Mike_P]

But it was a slight bit less obvious and presumably taken on a day the road was closed to road traffic

 

[robjh]

On page 1 @ColinJ's rules can be viewed. They include this sentence:


So you can post a picture of anywhere in the UK as long as you can say you hope to ride it sometime.

I once used a 1969 photo of the Honister Pass. I've never ridden it, not do I have any intention of doing so. But for the purposes of this thread, never say never.

As @slow scot has left a vacancy for the next puzzle, try this one, the validity of which is beyond question:

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A lot hinges on what that range of low hills in the distance are. Add to that we are probably looking E or NE, and the hills are maybe 20-ish miles away. Also that we are on the edge of some higher land, looking over a wide flatter area
I have my favourite theory about the hills, but that still leaves a lot of road to check.

 

[Aravis]

Extremely accurate observations, @robjh.

It sounds as though we're looking forward to a nice cup of tea, if I'm not stringing you along.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

On page 1 @ColinJ's rules can be viewed. They include this sentence:


So you can post a picture of anywhere in the UK as long as you can say you hope to ride it sometime.

I once used a 1969 photo of the Honister Pass. I've never ridden it, nor do I have any intention of doing so. But for the purposes of this thread, never say never.

As @slow scot has left a vacancy for the next puzzle, try this one, the validity of which is beyond question:

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Your bike is parked by the log at this gate. Ahead of you is Hillend Farm. To your right are the Malvern Hills (out of shot) and to your left (out of shot) is Longdon Marsh.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Your bike is parked by the log at this gate. Ahead of you is Hillend Farm. To your right are the Malvern Hills (out of shot) and to your left (out of shot) is Longdon Marsh.

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BTW that gate was a snogging spot (before the log appeared) for a friend and his wife

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Your bike is parked by the log at this gate. Ahead of you is Hillend Farm. To your right are the Malvern Hills (out of shot) and to your left (out of shot) is Longdon Marsh.

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My directions are from the perspective of your bike not the pic

 

[GuyBoden]

Your bike is parked by the log at this gate. Ahead of you is Hillend Farm. To your right are the Malvern Hills (out of shot) and to your left (out of shot) is Longdon Marsh.

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Well done, but I'm still not sure where it is?

Somewhere in Gloucestershire?

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Somewhere in Gloucestershire?

Worcestershire but Gloucestershire isn't far off. Here's a map of the locality. The spot in question is close to Spot height 52 roughly central on the OS piece of map

 

[GuyBoden]

Worcestershire but Gloucestershire isn't far off. Here's a map of the locality. The spot in question is close to Spot height 52 roughly central on the OS piece of map
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Many thanks, it looks like good cycling countryside.

Here:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.0...nbA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!9m2!1b1!2i39?entry=ttu

 

[robjh]

Many thanks, it looks like good cycling countryside.

Here:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.0...nbA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!9m2!1b1!2i39?entry=ttu

I was looking around the Malverns but got the position completely wrong. The line of low hills here I assume then are the Cotswolds, and not the Malvern Hills themselves, which are out of sight on the left of this view.

 

[Aravis]

Indeed @robjh. The Malverns dominate most views in the area, as when you about turn:

I should've known @twentysix by twentyfive would spot this one instantly. It's a great little road and the ordnance survey map shouts "ride me!"

Over to @twentysix by twentyfive.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

There may be some clues along later. Meanwhile NTR

 

[robjh]

There may be some clues along later. Meanwhile NTR

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There's something unusual about that bridge profile - the height and continuous curve rather than clear sides+arch look more like a tunnel shape you would see over a railway than a road, so I at first wondered if this road was converted from an earlier railway line. However, seeing the gradient going up to and through that tunnel I now think that's less likely.
So no, I really don't know where it is at all.