Game: Name that road!

[Dogtrousers]

- I'm going to have a stab at Warwickshire Correct

Yay! Go me!

I'm quitting while I'm ahead.

 

[robjh]

- northish west of Coventry

Does that mean that the view is of Coventry, or just that the viewpoint is somewhere west or northwest of Coventry (but looking towards somewhere else)?

 

[Willd]

location of road...

 

[13 rider]

I'm looking in the Corley area but can't find the view

 

[Willd]

Getting warmer

 

[ColinJ]

Getting warmer

This one is absolutely doing my head in!!!

I cycled all round that area for years so I have probably ridden the road in question

I think that I have triple-checked every potential road in Street View. I found several very likely candidates which had been visited by the SV car in June 2009 but no joy...

I remembered last night though that I was tired and took a wrong turn on my long ride down from Hebden Bridge and headed for Nuneaton/Bedworth instead of Coundon in NW Coventry. Maybe the distant town/city centre view that I remember was of there instead, which could mean that our search should be looking that way!

 

[MontyVeda]

Does that mean that the view is of Coventry, or just that the viewpoint is somewhere west or northwest of Coventry (but looking towards somewhere else)?

I've been in the hills west of Coventry and looking towards Coventry but I now think the view is looking west, towards Sutton Colefield rather than the towering heights of Brum central... still can't find it though, but I'm here all night.

 

[MontyVeda]

I've got it!

Fillongley Road, looking west.

 

[ColinJ]

I've got it!

Fillongley Road, looking west.

Thank heavens for that - I have spent way too much time on this one!!

I was convinced that the road was west to east so I didn't search for anything in that direction. The shadows really confused me.

The National Exhibition Centre is probably one of the things that we can see in the distance.

 

[MontyVeda]

... I have spent way too much time on this one!!

...

Same here. I was always looking east for the view

 

[ColinJ]

Same here. I was always looking east for the view

The Street View car must have gone down there in the late afternoon or evening. I usually assume that the sun is somewhere in the south but it was well round to the west in this case.

I have cycled round there but never in that direction so I had never noticed that the sprawl across Birmingham is visible from up there.