Game: Name that road!

[roubaixtuesday]

OK, time for a clue or two.

The picture was taken before 8am, from the top of a very popular climb for cyclists.*

I won't comment on the distance from Clitheroe for now.

*Strava numbers are comfortably into five figures.

 

[ColinJ]

I bet it is one of the ones that I have already looked at, but I have missed the bit in question!

 

[roubaixtuesday]

OK, another clue.

Here's the view (same time, same day) in the other direction, taken about 100 metres away. Note the road shown here is a side road to a farm, not the road itself.

 

[ColinJ]

This one has been doing my head in because I'm fairly sure that I have ridden the road or somewhere VERY close to it!

I'll keep on looking...

 

[MontyVeda]

OK, another clue.

Here's the view (same time, same day) in the other direction, taken about 100 metres away. Note the road shown here is a side road to a farm, not the road itself.

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The horizon looks very flat... is it looking out towards Morecambe Bay or the Fylde coast?

 

[geocycle]

I think I see Heysham power station? not Sure if the road, Littledale?

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Not Littledale. If you look very carefully at the 2nd pic, there is a small white dot close to the far horizon on the right. That's a very famous landmark...

 

[ColinJ]

The Ashton Memorial?

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Not the Ashton Memorial. Much harder than I thought this one...

Another clue: The tour of Britain has used this road.

 

[MontyVeda]

The Ashton Memorial?

I was thinking more... the shipyards at Barrow in Furness.

But I'm more drawn to the manicured wooded hill in the centre of the second photo... that's gotta be a country estate?

...and the hill on the right hand side is making me think Howgills.

 

[geocycle]

If it is Heysham power station, I’m wondering about Jubillee Tower But I can’t place the farm track?

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I think more clues may be needed.

The landmark mentioned above is a world heritage site.

 

[ColinJ]

I think more clues may be needed.

The landmark mentioned above is a world heritage site.

That must be a better clue!

Er... in Liverpool 'Maritime Mercantile City'?

 

[ColinJ]

I think I'm getting warm, at last...!

 

[ColinJ]

(It wasn't Liverpool... )