Game: Name that road!

[Alex321]

The clue seemed to be taking me to caving in the hills above Crickhowell, but no joy there. Then I thought it looked a bit like the Gower. It took a while to find the exact spot:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5977711,-4.1528775,3a,75y,257.89h,88.05t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s4q4eOd_j__t4rAgqljkJkA!2e0!6shttps://streetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com/v1/thumbnail?cb_client=maps_sv.tactile&w=900&h=600&pitch=1.9548569235765854&panoid=4q4eOd_j__t4rAgqljkJkA&yaw=257.88509644067057!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDMyNS4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw==

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Well done.

Not caving, Morris dancing. The top of that hill is Cefn Bryn, and the side I dance with dance there at dawn on 1st of May - and at Sunset on the Summer Solstice.
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/may-day.291620/post-6968622

Over to you.

 

[Aravis]

Thanks @Alex321.

I'm wondering if any of you have ridden this road. I'm quite certain many will have ridden the road it will soon join:

 

[Aravis]

A more minimalist view from a little way down the road may help you to focus on the truth:

 

[Aravis]

Head a little further up, still with the big ridge up ahead, and you'll come to this:

 

[ColinJ]

I don't know which road it is, but it is the kind that I really like!

 

[MontyVeda]

I don't know which road it is, but it is the kind that I really like!

Having scooted up and down it on street view, I can't help but agree. I want to ride this road!

Location of the first pic... second pic... and third pic.

I can't find a name for the road but is in spitting distance of the Gospell Pass in Wales.

Here's a view @Aravis didn't show us...

 

[Aravis]

Well found @MontyVeda!

If I'd had to show another picture it would probably have been looking down from the familiar GP road, maybe at the junction where this road leaves it. I hadn't decided.

I rode it once, on May 8th 1988, on a day ride from Bristol. Unlikely ever to be repeated, but for anyone still into roads like the Gospel, why wouldn't you go this way instead of heading down to Hay?

Over to MontyVeda...

 

[MontyVeda]

Thanks Aravis.

I shouldn't take much more than an educated guess to find this one

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[roubaixtuesday]

Having scooted up and down it on street view, I can't help but agree. I want to ride this road!

Location of the first pic... second pic... and third pic.

I can't find a name for the road but is in spitting distance of the Gospell Pass in Wales.

Here's a view @Aravis didn't show us...
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Ha! I have cycled down there after doing the Gospel pass from the South.

Didn't recognise it at all.

 

[Alex321]

Having scooted up and down it on street view, I can't help but agree. I want to ride this road!

Location of the first pic... second pic... and third pic.

I can't find a name for the road but is in spitting distance of the Gospell Pass in Wales.

Here's a view @Aravis didn't show us...
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I knew it looked familiar. Never ridden it, but I drove it from Hay to Llantony a few weeks ago.

 

[Aravis]

I found a School Lane near Forton, south of Lancaster. From Ordnance Survey it looks as though there's a line of pylons about the right distance away. So I was confident I'd found it:

But I don't think I had.

 

[ColinJ]

I found a School Lane near Forton, south of Lancaster. From Ordnance Survey it looks as though there's a line of pylons about the right distance away. So I was confident I'd found it:

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But I don't think I had.

I forgot about this one because I have been away but I did have a quick look before I left. Monty concentrates on two areas and I have cycled a lot in the one more local to me, the flatlands east and south of Lancaster. I will have another look at the weekend when I am home unless one of you has found the road by then.

 

[MontyVeda]

I found a School Lane near Forton, south of Lancaster. From Ordnance Survey it looks as though there's a line of pylons about the right distance away. So I was confident I'd found it:

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But I don't think I had.

You're certainly in the right part of the county... keep looking

 

[MontyVeda]

I found a School Lane near Forton, south of Lancaster. From Ordnance Survey it looks as though there's a line of pylons about the right distance away. So I was confident I'd found it:

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But I don't think I had.

Just to add... you got the obvious clue as to the name of the lane, and you've got the right string of pylons, just the wrong bit.

 

[Aravis]

Amazing - how did I keep missing this? At least it wasn't on the map I posted, but it was close:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...try=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDQxNC4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw==