Game: Name that road!

[ColinJ]

It's amazing how close one can get but not spot it. I have been scouring the local roads but haven't quite found it yet.

It's possible that the different view from the Street view car fooled me. Now I'll have to go back over the same roads...

Those wonky gates always interest me - I see them all over the place. I can't work out whether they are caused by frisky cows trying to escape from fields, or careless farmers doing the damage with farm vehicles.

 

[Speicher]

Very much in the right area, @Speicher, but not that road.

I've just had a look at Street View; the big hill was only just visible and the wonky gate on the left hadn't been put there when the camera passed by in 2009.

I've realised I've used a view from the same road in this thread before, if that helps.

I do not often visit this thread. I just sometimes pop in to see if I might vaguely know the area. As you live in Gloucestershire, and I thought it was Bredon, I ventured a guess. Quite happy for someone to nab my clues and find the exact spot.

 

[Sea of vapours]

Those wonky gates always interest me - I see them all over the place. I can't work out whether they are caused by frisky cows trying to escape from fields, or careless farmers doing the damage with farm vehicles.

Coincidentally, whilst out trundling across the Westmorland Dales yesterday, I watched a farmer drive along the road with a metal gate just like that hung from the fork lift blades of a JCB type of thing by its top horizontal bar. It was new, shiny and rectilinear. When he lowered it to the ground, near a wooden gate which had long ago reached retirement age, he went a bit too far so that the blades pressed down on the second bar from the top. The new gate then looked remarkably like the one in the current picture.

That doesn't mean that cows don't do it of course ....

 

[classic33]

I have a few ready to go. This was taken in 2017 before I'd fitted a second bottom cage to my "new" bike:

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Think I've found the gate, but there's no wall nearby.

 

[ColinJ]

I keep going back to look for it but fail. I have been assuming that we are looking towards the hills from roughly the NW. If we aren't, then that is why I have failed!

 

[classic33]

The railway lines aren't crossed too often on a corner in the road. The only one I found is a bigger bridge with a different wall.

 

[ColinJ]

I'm not sure if that embankment is for a railway line, a motorway, or is just a natural feature of the landscape.

 

[classic33]

I'm not sure if that embankment is for a railway line, a motorway, or is just a natural feature of the landscape.

The walls are too old for a motorway, which is why I said over water.

 

[ColinJ]

The walls are too old for a motorway, which is why I said over water.

I was also thinking that there might be a stream just behind where the picture was taken.

No, motorway/railway line ahead? It might be just the shape of the land but it looks a bit like a railway embankment. There is a railway line AND a motorway in that area.

 

[classic33]

I was also thinking that there might be a stream just behind where the picture was taken.

No, motorway/railway line ahead? It might be just the shape of the land but it looks a bit like a railway embankment. There is a railway line AND a motorway in that area.

There'd be a fence at the top if it were either of those. Prevent livestock getting on to them.

 

[ColinJ]

Ha - FINALLY found it - between Green Street and Hill Croome!! W, rather than NW, and further away than I had been looking.

 

[ColinJ]

Further round the bend, with the hills just visible in the distance...

 

[ColinJ]

The red circle shows where the picture was taken and the red line the 'embankment'.

I was looking for the M5 but that is some distance further away.

 

[classic33]

Ha - FINALLY found it - between Green Street and Hill Croome!! W, rather than NW, and further away than I had been looking.

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Said it was over water!
Easy access for livestock to water.

 

[T4tomo]

Further round the bend, with the hills just visible in the distance...

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its the right place, but due to street view vs regular camera, the background / hill profile looks completely different.

Like you I had a look a few days ago but from a different direction where the background hill profile looked about right.