Game: Name that road!

[Aravis]

Well done. So I wasn't far off in thinking Romney Marsh but had been looking a little further south, as I didn't realise the flatlands extended up quite this far.

Sometimes, as with this one, I use Ordnance Survey first to identify all the possible areas. I spent far too long looking at the Royal Military Canal, as we probably all did.

In the anticipation of @Ming the Merciless's approval, here is the next. A road I've ridden just once, a first-thing-in-the-morning ascent of this steep one, when I was a young person of limited means:

 

[Dogtrousers]

I know it (Ming's Kent one) fairly well. Often used that flat area to pad out rides with flat miles to make up an imperial century. Before I retired from such foolishness

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The Kent knowledge made it possible. It's the B2082 a few miles south of Tenterden:

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Well done

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Sometimes, as with this one, I use Ordnance Survey first to identify all the possible areas. I spent far too long looking at the Royal Military Canal, as we probably all did.

In the anticipation of @Ming the Merciless's approval, here is the next. A road I've ridden just once, a first-thing-in-the-morning ascent of this steep one, when I was a young person of limited means:

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Looks a bit Welsh

 

[MontyVeda]

I can't help but think of the descent into East Proctor 🌕

[edit] that full moon emoji is rubbish!

 

[Emanresu]

Looks a bit Welsh

Part Welsh? Bordering on Welsh?

 

[Aravis]

I had to look up East Proctor - makes sense now. Pretty close.

 

[Alex321]

I had to look up East Proctor - makes sense now. Pretty close.

I'd never heard of it either, never having seen the film.

But my first thought was that it could be above Hay somewhere.

 

[ColinJ]

I know that it is NOT the run down to Dunsop Bridge from the Trough of Bowland but it looks very similar...

That is the kind of road that I really like.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Part Welsh? Bordering on Welsh?

The Marches you mean?

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

It's Glascwm village in the bottom and you are climbing away in the Gladestry direction but looking over your shoulder.

 

[MontyVeda]

It's Glascwm village in the bottom and you are climbing away in the Gladestry direction but looking over your shoulder.

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A mere 10 miles from the fictional Yorkshire village!

 

[Aravis]

Spot on @twentysix by twentyfive. I imagine you've ridden that way.

I see that the YH was closed in 1997 . They can't erase my stamp though - I have it somewhere.

Over to you.

 

[Emanresu]

Knew it had a Ring to it.

https://cycle.travel/route/radnor_ring

 

[Dogtrousers]

I know that it is NOT the run down to Dunsop Bridge from the Trough of Bowland but it looks very similar...

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That is the kind of road that I really like.

I think there should be some kind of consolation prize for lookalike roads. That one's really good. I've found a few myself. All wrong, of course.