2020

SD8786 : The Cam High Road

taken 3 years ago, 3 km from Gayle, North Yorkshire, England

The Cam High Road
The Cam High Road
This must be one of the more pleasant roads for Roman legions to have marched along, many of their straight-line thoroughfares seeming to take perverse lines through bogs or over gratuitous ascents. The Cam High Road does make one or two concessions to the terrain, but here is able to follow a direct course, almost level, and along the top of the Main Limestone outcrop which provides easy, dry footing. We cannot know if those from the Mediterranean found the local scenery (or, more to the point, its weather) attractive, but the route certainly provides plenty of views to lift the spirit and it's almost all downhill from here to Virosidum (Bainbridge) in Wensleydale. Across the valley of the Bain (England's shortest river) the usually prominent plateau of Addleborough with its ancient burial is masked by being just level with the distant horizon, but beyond that, over Bishopdale, Carlton Moor's rounded summits, Height of Hazely and Harland Hill, stand out.

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This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · High Road [12] · Roman Road [4] · Addleborough [2] · Bainbridge [2] · Limestone Outcrop [2] ·
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SD8786, 30 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Andy Waddington   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Tuesday, 1 December, 2020   (more nearby)
Submitted
Thursday, 24 December, 2020
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SD 8752 8661 [10m precision]
WGS84: 54:16.4989N 2:11.5891W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SD 8748 8660
View Direction
East-northeast (about 67 degrees)
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