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47p2 · Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 2009 Location: Glasgow

The first picture I haven't a clue, but a cracking picture all the same

Is the second picture the B863 Ballachulish to Kinlochleven road?
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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7219 Location: Edinburgh

Hi John,

Sorry for hi-jacking your thread.

You are about as much too far north as Art was too far south.

I think the first picture is about equidistant between many of us Scots and the Nantwich crew.

Peter
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47p2 · Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 2009 Location: Glasgow

Hmmmmmm.

Ok then how about the A827 Killin to Kenmore road running along the banks of Loch Tay
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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7219 Location: Edinburgh

No, no, it's the west side of the country.

P.
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Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4880 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

Hi
I bet the first one is on here somewhere. Laughing

http://www.wetroads.co.uk/

and the second one is looking towards the inland end of one of the sea lochs.

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7219 Location: Edinburgh

Yes, it is. Cool

Actually, I just tested the suggestion that the first one is about equi-distant
from Edinburgh and Nantwich. Sorry this was misleading. According to the AA it's 60 miles nearer by road to Edinburgh than it is from Nantwich.
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47p2 · Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 2009 Location: Glasgow

Picture 1: Hawick
Picture 2: B840 Loch Awe?
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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7219 Location: Edinburgh

Sorry, Hawick is not far south enough.

But I think you're close enough with number 2. B840 is on the east side of Loch Awe but this photo is looking north from the unmarked road up the west side. Well done!

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peppiB · Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 10:33 am Post subject:

Number 1 looks like the (now closed) ford across the river Wear in Stanhope, co. Durham, south of the border but still far enough north to be civilised!

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7219 Location: Edinburgh

Full marks to peppiB. Well done! Very Happy

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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7219 Location: Edinburgh

Here's an easy one...

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47p2 · Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 2009 Location: Glasgow

This looks like Ashness Bridge in the Lake District. In the background is Derwent Water and the Skiddaw
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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7219 Location: Edinburgh

Ah, too easy. What about another clue for your unanswered one?

Peter
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47p2 · Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 2009 Location: Glasgow

The road in the first picture eventually goes onto a single track road, which leads to a car park. From the car park you walk for around 40 minutes through the forrest, following the river and you come to a vast open meadow. At the end of the meadow is a waterfall which drops some 393 feet.

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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7219 Location: Edinburgh

Is your original picture on the road into Glen Nevis taken looking in the direction going toward Fort William? Ben Nevis on the right.

Peter Confused

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