Game: Name that road!

[Dogtrousers]

@Dogtrousers your Kamal and the Colonel's son clue would mean absolutely nothing to me without the help of Wikipedia. The Ballad of East and West suggests somewhere near the East/West Sussex border, but looking at the map I've yet to spot a strong candidate.

You're getting very warm, but not for quite the reason that you think. It is Sussex, but the East and West doesn't refer to East and West Sussex.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Ok maybe time for a couple more clues.
A cryptic one. You'd think that water would freeze here.
A geographic one. If you carry on in the direction the photo is facing you come to the site of a posh annual cultural festival.

 

[BrumJim]

OK, what I have so far:
The picture shows a sign indicating the Greenwich Meridian, and is taken in the direction of Glyndebourne, Sussex.

Can't find the right road, though.

 

[Tribansman]

Is it Hamsey Lane, just east of Cooksbridge?

Looks slightly different on street view and can't get the walking singpost in, but the horizon looks similar....

 

[Dogtrousers]

Yes it is. The wooden sign is a Meridian marker. (hence the East and West and water freezing - zero degrees - clues). If you head off in that direction for a while you get to Glyndeboure (hence the posh festival clue).

Here's a picture of the marker in all its glory.

And more info http://www.thegreenwichmeridian.org/tgm/location.php?i_latitude=50.902284&i_type=

Well done @Tribansman

 

[lazybloke]

Yes it is. The wooden sign is a Meridian marker. (hence the East and West and water freezing - zero degrees - clues). If you head off in that direction for a while you get to Glyndeboure (hence the posh festival clue).

Here's a picture of the marker in all its glory.
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And more info http://www.thegreenwichmeridian.org/tgm/location.php?i_latitude=50.902284&i_type=

Well done @Tribansman

Damn, i was searching within 2km of there!

 

[MontyVeda]

Damn, i was searching within 2km of there!

Well done... i didn't get out of yorkshire

 

[roubaixtuesday]

North west frontier - I'd suggest borders. No idea where though.

Bang on the money, as usual

 

[MontyVeda]

I did say to @Aravis that it was Sussex!
...

I know... I gave up after it not being in yorkshire.

 

[Aravis]

The Greenwich meridian clue does look like a "how does one miss that" now, but perhaps I'm being too harsh. For those of us on this side of the country it's something that rarely enters our consciousness, and it doesn't appear on a typical map.

All we need now is another puzzle, @Tribansman.

 

[ColinJ]

Well done, @Tribansman - your turn now!

 

[MontyVeda]

Well done, @Tribansman - your turn now!

whilst we're waiting... let's try to pre-empt @Tribansman entry.

Oxford Street?

 

[Venod]

Oxford Street?

This is Middle Oxford Street Castleford, home of Kendell Cycles, the start of Tuesday and Thursday chaingangs back in the eighties and a lot of pain, I had a Raleigh Frame resprayed and it had Kendell stickers applied. Gary Proud the owner is an excellent wheel builder.

 

[MontyVeda]

This is Middle Oxford Street Castleford, home of Kendell Cycles, the start of Tuesday and Thursday chaingangs back in the eighties and a lot of pain, I had a Raleigh Frame resprayed and it had Kendell stickers applied. Gary Proud the owner is an excellent wheel builder.

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Does that mean i won... or you won? I'm confused.

 

[Aravis]

whilst we're waiting... let's try to pre-empt @Tribansman entry.

I think this might be what @Tribansman's going to post next. As it happens I did ride along this road once.