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Bank Fold Lane

673.3 m · net rise 81.4 m · total ascent 84.6 m · overall 12.1% · confidence: good · Belthorn · Lancashire

Shape: sustained — 34% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 151 m.

Found purely from mapping and LiDAR data, and not yet matched against books, race records or lists — it may be well known to locals under a name we've never heard. It was cross-checked against the OS road network, surface models and map tags, but a discovery can still be an artifact of the terrain model or the map. Treat it as a well-evidenced hypothesis until someone has ridden it. If you know this road, tell us what you found — photographs, corrections and local knowledge all welcome; the map links below let you scout it first.

Gradient ladder what do windows mean?

Window	Maximum	Located at
2 m (diagnostic)	≈46%	316–318 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 68.9% at 278–280 m across a structure — excluded
3 m (diagnostic)	≈41%	316–319 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 59.3% at 278–281 m across a structure — excluded
5 m	≈32%	315–320 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 47.9% at 278–283 m across a structure — excluded
10 m	≈27%	309–319 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 36.2% at 277–287 m across a structure — excluded
20 m	≈22.2%	305–325 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 23.8% at 268–288 m across a structure — excluded
25 m	≈20.8%	102–127 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 21.4% at 264–289 m across a structure — excluded
50 m	19.3%	89–139 m
100 m	18.1%	101–201 m

Map

Check this route yourself: Google Maps route via their router · Street View at the base where coverage exists · geojson.io our exact measured line · OpenTopoMap

This climb's data: OCL JSON — the full gradient ladder, quality flags and provenance in the OpenClimb Ladder format.

Ridden it, or know better? Submit data for this climb no account needed

Bank Fold Lane LiDAR hillshade map with contours

Profile

Provenance

{
  "analysis_version": "0.1.0",
  "sample_interval_m": 1.0,
  "interpolation": "bilinear",
  "smoothing": "none",
  "gradient_windows_m": [
    5.0,
    10.0,
    20.0,
    25.0,
    50.0,
    100.0
  ],
  "diagnostic_windows_m": [
    2.0,
    3.0
  ],
  "elevation_crs": "EPSG:27700",
  "elevation_resolution_m": 1.0,
  "elevation_tiles": [
    "data/cache/england/bulk_dtm_1m/SD7020.tif"
  ],
  "calculated_at": "2026-08-19T18:04:36+00:00",
  "road_source": "OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)",
  "road_attribution": "\u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL",
  "osm_pbf_path": "data/cache/pbf/england-2026-08-12.osm.pbf",
  "osm_snapshot": "2026-08-12T20:21:46Z",
  "elevation_provider": "Environment Agency",
  "elevation_dataset": "EA LIDAR Composite DTM 1m (2022)",
  "elevation_licence": "Open Government Licence v3 \u2014 \u00a9 Environment Agency",
  "elevation_coverage_id": "13787b9a-26a4-4775-8523-806d13af58fc__Lidar_Composite_Elevation_DTM_1m",
  "elevation_tile_ids": [
    "SD7020.tif"
  ],
  "climb_origin": "discovered",
  "notes": "Coarse pass: max 16.2% over 200 m (Terrain 50), gain 74.0 m over 532 m way. EXTENDED by graph walk: +0 segment(s) at base, +2 at top (stop: base=no_descending_continuation, top=no_ascending_continuation; min_avg=2.0%). Review before adopting. ADOPTED (England launch slice 2026-08-16): clean-steep."
}