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Game: Name that road!
- Thread starter ColinJ
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Starchivore
I don't know much about Cinco de Mayo
- Location
- Halifax, West Yorkshire
Yes, definitely. That would be good
Tribansman
Veteran
Sea of vapours
Guru
- Location
- Clapham, Yorkshire Dales
Garrgghhhh.... I thought 'looks like The Stang maybe' earlier today and was about to go and check on Streetview when something distracted me.Drat! I thought of looking up there, but wrongly applied the '@Sea of vapours would know it so it can't be' filter!
Tribansman
Veteran
Time for a couple of clues.
I've already confirmed it's Welsh. It's in North Wales, pretty close to a castle
And here's the view if you turn around...
I've already confirmed it's Welsh. It's in North Wales, pretty close to a castle
And here's the view if you turn around...
robjh
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
You're on the Sarn Helen road heading down towards Dolwyddelan, about here
I haven't been up that road, or many of the other tiny 'dead end' roads that lead into the hills around there, but it looks like a good one.
Tribansman
Veteran
Yep, it's a cracking road and sensational views its whole length. Tracks lead up into the forest too and in to a warren of MTB-able trails.
The main road through Dolwyddelan to Blaneau Ffestiniog is also a sensational road with lots of old mine works and an awesome descent
robjh
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
Next one :-
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
robjh
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
No need to check it, you're absolutely right - it is the descent to Postbridge, coming from the Moretonhampstead direction.
If anyone had asked for more clues I was going to point out the rocky outcrops on the horizon and ask which moor might be well-known for such things. But you've got it, so well done and over to you
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
Thanks @robjh. I've ridden up that hill on a couple of occasions, many years apart, and your picture matched an image in my mind. I have a photograph of my Revell Elite with bulging panniers on the bridge in 1985 which I was hoping to use in this thread, but sadly it doesn't really show the road.
Here's my next effort, taken during a lockdown ride:
Here's my next effort, taken during a lockdown ride:
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
No-one's recognising it are they? It would certainly be known instantly to a lot of cyclists, including many on this forum.
The large isolated hill in the centre of the picture is a geological outlier, but is included in the AONB named after the larger range of hills of which it was once a part.
The large isolated hill in the centre of the picture is a geological outlier, but is included in the AONB named after the larger range of hills of which it was once a part.
newts
Veteran
- Location
- Isca Dumnoniorum
Is it the Mendips in the background?
Tribansman
Veteran
Is it Bredon Hill? If it is, that's still not helping me find the road!
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
It certainly is.
There was very good visibility that day, so maybe you need to cast the net a bit wider? There are other features which should help with the direction.
