Game: Name that road!

[Aravis]

Those hills make me think of the Long Mynd or thereabouts, Shropshire way. It's not the Malverns IMO as they are more isolated.

Yes, it certainly is Shropshire. And there is a little bit of Long Mynd in the picture. I think it should be possible to pin it down a little further.

It's from mid-October this year. Can you believe the roads were so dry?

 

[ColinJ]

While we are waiting for Rob to come up with another road ...

Apparently, Vintage TV wants to join in! I have it on in the background and just glimpsed up from my laptop and spotted this ....

And the answer is ... The A58 at Blackstone Edge!

Back to you, Rob!

 

[Skuhravy]

Blimey - I wouldn't have fancied that after a night at the pub... I reckon that I would have ended up careering down the embankment on the left into Sleightholme Beck!

I once rode to the Packhorse Inn on Widdop Rd between Hebden Bridge and Thursden (featured in my previous photograph). I almost crashed on the way home on the steep hairpinned descent at Blake Dean. After that I decided that drink-cycling was not for me!

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Ah no, we overnighted at the pub, and rode back the next day.

But - I've always said that the track is easier with a couple of pints in you. And the landlord says there's a gang always rides up from Barnard Castle for a pint or two after work every Thursday, regardless.

 

[robjh]

While we are waiting for Rob to come up with another road ...
...
Back to you, Rob!

I'm not sure it's back with me - I thought we were waiting for a more exact location for @Aravis's photo in post #99.

What say ye all?

 

[ColinJ]

I'm not sure it's back with me - I thought we were waiting for a more exact location for @Aravis's photo in post #99.

What say ye all?

Oops, yes! Sorry about that; I had too many things on the go at once and was scanning posts too quickly. (I was simultaneously doing a cryptic crossword and planning bike rides!)

 

[Aravis]

I'm not sure it's back with me - I thought we were waiting for a more exact location for @Aravis's photo in post #99.

What say ye all?

I think I've left it long enough. Maybe it's more difficult (or less interesting) than I thought.

The elegantly shaped hill on the left is Ragleth Hill, which towers above the A49 as you approach Church Stretton from the south. I've just crossed Wenlock Edge heading due north from Culmington, and when the Stretton Hills burst into view with the midday sun directly behind me, it was one of those "stop and gasp" moments. The road I'm on isn't particularly notable, but if you're looking for a quiet route northwards from Ludlow it worth looking at.

So, taking Ragleth Hill as the reference, the Long Mynd is poking through on the extreme left, Church Stretton (hidden behind the hills) is dead ahead, and Hope Bowdler Hill (possibly also the top of Caer Caradoc) on the right. It's definitely a "must visit" area and there are some true killer hills around if that's your thing. That day I was riding from Gloucester to Stoke-on-Trent - quite a day.

So @robjh wins for identifying Shropshire and the Long Mynd.

 

[robjh]

I think I've left it long enough. Maybe it's more difficult (or less interesting) than I thought.

The elegantly shaped hill on the left is Ragleth Hill, which towers above the A49 as you approach Church Stretton from the south. I've just crossed Wenlock Edge heading due north from Culmington, and when the Stretton Hills burst into view with the midday sun directly behind me, it was one of those "stop and gasp" moments. The road I'm on isn't particularly notable, but if you're looking for a quiet route northwards from Ludlow it worth looking at.

So, taking Ragleth Hill as the reference, the Long Mynd is poking through on the extreme left, Church Stretton (hidden behind the hills) is dead ahead, and Hope Bowdler Hill (possibly also the top of Caer Caradoc) on the right. It's definitely a "must visit" area and there are some true killer hills around if that's your thing. That day I was riding from Gloucester to Stoke-on-Trent - quite a day.

So @robjh wins for identifying Shropshire and the Long Mynd.

Thanks, I shall be google-mapping those roads like mad this evening when I have a moment.

I'll look for another photo then too - unless someone else wants to leap in in the meantime?

 

[Hacienda71]

A nice easy one.

 

[Siclo]

Winnats Pass

 

[Siclo]

My go?

 

[Sea of vapours]

Lythe Fell Road, looking northwards at Ingleborough from about ten metres beyond the summit cattle grid.

 

[Siclo]

Spot on

 

[Sea of vapours]

Another easy one then.

 

[ColinJ]

Honourable pass.

 

[ColinJ]

That is - I will be honourable and pass (because I took the photo!) rather than it being a place called 'Honourable Pass'!