2020

SD8886 : The Cam High Road

taken 3 years ago, near to Marsett, 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, and just beyond the gate it deviates to avid dropping into a small gully, but is soon able to resume its straight course, all the way into the dale. This is almost the last section along the top of the Main Limestone outcrop which provides easy, dry footing, but, as always, the Romans built to last and the way remains easy walking to the end. 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.

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SD8886, 15 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 8817 8694 [10m precision]
WGS84: 54:16.6778N 2:10.9910W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SD 8815 8692
View Direction
Northeast (about 45 degrees)
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