Game: Name that road!

[Aravis]

I had to look up BICBW; I can confirm you are incorrect!

This pleasant valley can be found in Rotherham if you leave her behind.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Hmm

Rotherham becomes Rotham if you leave her behind.

 

[robjh]

Hmm

Rotherham becomes Rotham if you leave her behind.

Rotham if you leave her out. If you leave her behind then it could be Herrotham or Rothamher, depending on which way you're going.

Am I helping?

 

[Dogtrousers]

Rotham if you leave her out. If you leave her behind then it could be Herrotham or Rothamher, depending on which way you're going.

Am I helping?

Indeed. And if you find a pleasant valley (vale) in it it becomes Herrovaletham (or Rotvahlehamher). I think we're getting warm

 

[Aravis]

A fair comment, @robjh. I can see there are a number of ways in which "leave her behind" could be interpreted; the one I intended was "don't take her".

It might help if you step aside and look again.

 

[T4tomo]

The next one then. I don't think we've been out this way for a while. The picture was taken from an upstairs window.

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The picture was taken from an upstairs window.
This pleasant valley can be found in Rotherham if you leave her behind.
I can see there are a number of ways in which "leave her behind" could be interpreted; the one I intended was "don't take her".
It might help if you step aside and look again.

Landing / Bedroom / Attic / Loft View / sighting from an upstairs window - that clearly isn't a literal comment

look again suggest re-look or review

 

[Dogtrousers]

Upstairs window could be dormer
Step aside could be recuse

 

[Alex321]

Right, the clues have told me where it is. Now just got to find the actual view.

 

[Alex321]

Right, the clues have told me where it is. Now just got to find the actual view.

He has been mixing up cryptic and literal clues

 

[Alex321]

It's changed a bit since your photo - the wooden fence is now a hedge, but I think this is it
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.734...4!1sovIyp44eOKSldXFtzFoDOA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

 

[Alex321]

Landing / Bedroom / Attic / Loft View / sighting from an upstairs window - that clearly isn't a literal comment

look again suggest re-look or review

It was a literal comment I think. There is a house opposite the junction.

Upstairs window could be dormer
Step aside could be recuse

Stepaside is a village in the district of Amroth (Anagram of Rotherham leaving her behind) near Tenby in South West Wales.

But Pleasant Valley is actually the next valley over from where I have got that view, so it is possible I have the wrong junction.

 

[Aravis]

Yes indeed, @Alex321. I put the bit about it being taken from an upstairs window before I'd thought of any cryptic clues to explain the difference in elevation as compared to the Street View images - normally they're the ones that are higher.

There is also a Pleasant Valley close by, and I hadn't used the name of the actual location (Summerhill) before it was solved. Quite a scattergun of clues available here.

The house was our holiday cottage in summer 1967. We had our venerable Ford Zephyr at the time; it generally failed to start when it had been wet overnight, and on this two week holiday this was almost every day. Each morning it would be rolled down the hill to Amroth and although it was occasionally touch and go it fired into life every time. Waiting at the top was almost as tense as the re-entry radio blackout on the Apollo missions, but we didn't know about those then.

I hope you all enjoyed that one. Your choice again I'm afraid Alex.

Edit: I think you've added the bit in your post about Pleasant Valley. I put that in the clue so that it would read more naturally.

 

[Alex321]

Yes indeed, @Alex321. I put the bit about it being taken from an upstairs window before I'd thought of any cryptic clues to explain the difference in elevation as compared to the Street View images - normally they're the ones that are higher.

There is also a Pleasant Valley close by, and I hadn't used the name of the actual location (Summerhill) before it was solved. Quite a scattergun of clues available here.

The house was our holiday cottage in summer 1967. We had our venerable Ford Zephyr at the time; it generally failed to start when it had been wet overnight, and on this two week holiday this was almost every day. Each morning it would be rolled down the hill to Amroth and although it was occasionally touch and go it fired into life every time. Waiting at the top was almost as tense as the re-entry radio blackout on the Apollo missions, but we didn't know about those then.

I hope you all enjoyed that one. Your choice again I'm afraid Alex.

Edit: I think you've added the bit in your post about Pleasant Valley. I put that in the clue so that it would read more naturally.

Yes, I slightly doubted my answer because of that, so I added to the post.

As soon as you posted the step aside clue, I thought "I've driven past a village called that", and two minutes later seeing it was in Amroth, I knew I had the area

 

[Alex321]

Ok, try this.
I've only ever ridden that road in this direction once. I quite often do t the other way, but all my recent images are too low a resolution - I'd set the Go Pro to 720 instead of 1080 by accident.

 

[Alex321]

And just to warn you, the streetview image (from 2011) has an entirely different sign board there.