Author Topic: The "guess the place" thread (Read 903829 times)

chris · « **Reply #4600 on:** 27 December, 2011, 06:57:10 pm »

Clue time - it is eight miles from a tea room and a lighthouse and four miles back to the nearest propper road.

Steph · « **Reply #4601 on:** 27 December, 2011, 10:02:27 pm »

Not Cape Wrath or that area?

chris · « **Reply #4602 on:** 27 December, 2011, 10:21:12 pm »

It's the ~~road~~ track to Cape Wrath. It has painted mile stones at each mile, but this is the only one that has more than just a number. If you don't want to ride / walk to the cape then there is a minibus service. The road is very rough and the passengers in the minibuses looked very green

Steph · « **Reply #4603 on:** 27 December, 2011, 10:59:46 pm »

It was the clue about distance to a 'proper' road that gave it to me!

plum · « **Reply #4604 on:** 27 December, 2011, 11:00:27 pm »

I confess to never having heard of Cape Wrath, so I googled it.

It's neither the most northerly nor the most westerly part of the UK. It isn't NW of anywhere significant that I can see on the map. Yet the tourist website states with confidence that it is the most north westerly point of the UK mainland. How does that work then?

David Martin · « **Reply #4605 on:** 27 December, 2011, 11:16:13 pm »

draw a line from NE to SW. Move it NW. The lastish point on the mainland it touches is Cape Wrath. Hence the most North Westerley.

Steph · « **Reply #4606 on:** 28 December, 2011, 06:00:25 am »

plum · « **Reply #4607 on:** 28 December, 2011, 08:33:54 am »

Quote from: David Martin on 27 December, 2011, 11:16:13 pm

draw a line from NE to SW. Move it NW. The lastish point on the mainland it touches is Cape Wrath. Hence the most North Westerley.

I can't see it. The bottom of these three lines passes fairly centrally through Carlisle so I would think that to be a good candidate, the middle line passes through a clear NW point and looks intuitively nice to me so why not that one, and the top line is the one that follows your criterion to its most northerly conclusion so why not that one? In fact a fourth line through Ireland looks possible also. Or am I overthinking it and they chose Cape Wrath for aesthetic reasons?

hatler · « **Reply #4608 on:** 28 December, 2011, 09:45:02 am »

I'm guessing here, but if you took a ruler and aligned it SW > NE, then placed it to the NW of the mainland mass of GB, then sld it across the map in a SE direction, would Cape Wrath be the first bit of the mainland you get to ?

Jaded · « **Reply #4609 on:** 28 December, 2011, 09:57:15 am »

It is important.

Peter · « **Reply #4610 on:** 28 December, 2011, 09:58:13 am »

Plum, I'm inclined to agree with your instinct, if not your reasoning! What they actually mean is that Cape Wrath is at the top left-hand corner of the British mainland; but that doesn't have quite such an "official" ring as "most north-westerly point". Explorers and geographers like things that are easy to put on badges and so do tourist boards!

Wowbagger · « **Reply #4611 on:** 28 December, 2011, 10:07:04 am »

How about if you draw a line from the most northerly point (Dunnet Head) to the most westerly point (Ardnamurchan Point) and then find the point of the mainland that furthest from the line you've just drawn perpendicularwise in a northwesterly direction?

That's Cape Wrath. I rode the 11 or so miles there from the ferry and enjoyed the ride so much that I got the minibus back.

David Martin · « **Reply #4612 on:** 28 December, 2011, 10:16:21 am »

Quote from: plum on 28 December, 2011, 08:33:54 am

Quote from: David Martin on 27 December, 2011, 11:16:13 pm
draw a line from NE to SW. Move it NW. The lastish point on the mainland it touches is Cape Wrath. Hence the most North Westerley.

Spot the deliberate error?
Those lines are NW to SE, ie perpendicular to what they should be.

plum · « **Reply #4613 on:** 28 December, 2011, 10:36:00 am »

haha I r utter plank. Thanks hatler and David for making sense of it for me

hatler · « **Reply #4614 on:** 28 December, 2011, 10:58:40 am »

Quote from: David Martin on 28 December, 2011, 10:16:21 am

Quote from: plum on 28 December, 2011, 08:33:54 am
Quote from: David Martin on 27 December, 2011, 11:16:13 pm
draw a line from NE to SW. Move it NW. The lastish point on the mainland it touches is Cape Wrath. Hence the most North Westerley.

Spot the deliberate error?
Those lines are NW to SE, ie perpendicular to what they should be.

And the lines are inclined at 45' to the page, but true North on that page is not aligned with the edge of the page.

chris · « **Reply #4615 on:** 28 December, 2011, 11:03:36 am »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 28 December, 2011, 10:07:04 am

That's Cape Wrath. I rode the 11 or so miles there from the ferry and enjoyed the ride so much that I got the minibus back.

Really? I thought it was a cracking ride.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #4616 on:** 28 December, 2011, 01:46:19 pm »

Quote from: chris on 28 December, 2011, 11:03:36 am

Quote from: Wowbagger on 28 December, 2011, 10:07:04 am
That's Cape Wrath. I rode the 11 or so miles there from the ferry and enjoyed the ride so much that I got the minibus back.

Really? I thought it was a cracking ride.

The drawback for me was having to spend a lot more time looking at the treacherous road surface than the scenery, combined with the need to be back in Durness in time to catch the minibus to Dingwall. I would have ridden back other than the time factor.

chris · « **Reply #4617 on:** 30 December, 2011, 05:00:27 pm »

Quote from: Steph on 28 December, 2011, 06:00:25 am

That has a familiar feel to it, but I can't place it. Is it in the Cotswolds?

jogler · « **Reply #4618 on:** 30 December, 2011, 05:14:10 pm »

Quote from: Steph on 28 December, 2011, 06:00:25 am

Ripley?

mike · « **Reply #4619 on:** 31 December, 2011, 09:38:47 am »

The parking doesn't look quite right but is it Coombe abbey near Coventry?

Steph · « **Reply #4620 on:** 31 December, 2011, 02:21:21 pm »

All wrong so far, but there is a very clear link to cycling.

Steph · « **Reply #4621 on:** 31 December, 2011, 02:29:55 pm »

Here is the inside of the religious building whose outside wall is on the right edge of the picture

Jaded · « **Reply #4622 on:** 31 December, 2011, 03:09:47 pm »

Chatsworth?

Steph · « **Reply #4623 on:** 31 December, 2011, 03:19:16 pm »

Quite a distance from there. Cycling associations are beyond the bridge in the first picture.

chris · « **Reply #4624 on:** 31 December, 2011, 04:39:29 pm »

It's not Drumlanrig is it?