Game: Name that road!

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Trickedem

Guru
Location
Kent
Devil's Beef Tub?
Exactly what I thought.
 

Trickedem

Guru
Location
Kent
Devil's Beef Tub?
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This is from Wikepedia. Very unreasonably it is rather misty on google streetview!
 

Aravis

Putrid Donut
Location
Gloucester
I was sceptical to begin with, but there's a Youtube video below which as well as showing the Tub itself also shows the line of the hills above, and this also seems to match @YukonBoy's picture quite closely - around 48s is a good place to look. This is the best evidence I've been able to find:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCsQBKn3gco

So I think the picture is taken from this layby, probably looking quite a bit to the left:

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robjh

Legendary Member
Got to be one of the Roman roads in the borders, heading Westish.

The only one I can find with forestry both sides is A68 to Jedburgh, but no cigar.

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Will keep looking...
I like your line of thinking, but no, it's not that
 

lazybloke

Today i follow the flying spaghetti monster
Location
Leafy Surrey
My immediate thought was Thetford Forest. Not so sure now, might have to try Cannock Chase.

Edit: It was the A11 between Barton Mills and Thetford I was thinking of, but that was many years ago. Streetview tells me it's now dual carriageway and not as much forest!
 
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robjh

Legendary Member
My immediate thought was Thetford Forest. Not so sure now, might have to try Cannock Chase.

Edit: It was the A11 between Barton Mills and Thetford I was thinking of, but that was many years ago. Streetview tells me it's now dual carriageway and not as much forest!
No, not the A11 - you're right, it's got much bigger in recent years.

Talking of streetview, these managed forestry areas can change their appearance quite a lot as trees are cut down or foliage grows, and even I have had difficulty identifying the exact spot where I took this, so any close-enough guess will do.
 

Ming the Merciless

There is no mercy
Location
Inside my skull
I was sceptical to begin with, but there's a Youtube video below which as well as showing the Tub itself also shows the line of the hills above, and this also seems to match @YukonBoy's picture quite closely - around 48s is a good place to look. This is the best evidence I've been able to find:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCsQBKn3gco

So I think the picture is taken from this layby, probably looking quite a bit to the left:

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Yep lay-by is at top after you’ve climbed up from Moffat going north and before you begin long descent.
 

lazybloke

Today i follow the flying spaghetti monster
Location
Leafy Surrey
No, not the A11 - you're right, it's got much bigger in recent years.

Talking of streetview, these managed forestry areas can change their appearance quite a lot as trees are cut down or foliage grows, and even I have had difficulty identifying the exact spot where I took this, so any close-enough guess will do.
It's a tough one. Looks like a north/south Roman Road through a managed forest.
I can rule a few places out by flora and geography, but I can't see anything that helps narrow the search.
I've searched extensively in Cambs/Essex, and everywhere from Kielder to the Forest of Dean using Forestry Commission documents, OS maps, , satellite views, streetview and getting very creative with Google searches. No luck!

Perhaps I've missed something more obvious.
 
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