Whitchurch to Symonds Yat West°
2426.1 m · net rise 137.7 m · total ascent 166.7 m · overall 5.7% · confidence: needs confirmation · Whitchurch · Herefordshire
Shape: stepped — 48% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 68 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.
° The name is provisional: this climb is not yet matched to a documented name, so it was named from nearby map places. There is no evidence of local usage — (auto-named from gazetteer (hypothesis, unreviewed); discovered as 'Discovered lane (51.8406, -2.6581)'). Corrections welcome.
needs review max5_over_45, short_window_divergence — treat short-window maxima here as provisional.
≈ Overhead cover (tree canopy or structures) spans 15% of this route — detected by comparing the surface model (DSM, treetops and rooftops) against the terrain model (DTM, bare ground). Under cover the bare-ground model is built from fewer laser returns, so metre-scale readings can wobble; maxima whose window sits in a covered zone are marked ≈ below — less certain — the flag does not say whether the true value is higher or lower. Longer windows average over more clean ground and are steadier.
Gradient ladder what do windows mean?
| Window | Maximum | Located at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 m (diagnostic) | ≈56% | 371–373 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 87.6% at 311–313 m across a structure — excluded |
| 3 m (diagnostic) | ≈54% | 371–374 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 71.7% at 310–313 m across a structure — excluded |
| 5 m | ≈47% | 369–374 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 55.9% at 309–314 m across a structure — excluded |
| 10 m | ≈32% | 367–377 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 35.0% at 307–317 m across a structure — excluded |
| 20 m | 24.5% | 360–380 m | |
| 25 m | 22.8% | 350–375 m | |
| 50 m | ≈19.2% | 338–388 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 21.0% at 359–409 m across a structure — excluded |
| 100 m | ≈16.3% | 174–274 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 17.9% at 368–468 m across a structure — excluded |
may_continue_beyond_end Extent detection suggests reviewing where this climb starts/ends.
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.
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Provenance
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"sample_interval_m": 1.0,
"interpolation": "bilinear",
"smoothing": "none",
"gradient_windows_m": [
5.0,
10.0,
20.0,
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50.0,
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],
"diagnostic_windows_m": [
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],
"elevation_crs": "EPSG:27700",
"elevation_resolution_m": 1.0,
"elevation_tiles": [
"data/cache/england/bulk_dtm_1m/SO5015.tif",
"data/cache/england/bulk_dtm_1m/SO5515.tif"
],
"calculated_at": "2026-08-19T18:25:04+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": [
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],
"climb_origin": "discovered",
"notes": "Coarse pass: max 8.6% over 200 m (Terrain 50), gain 49.6 m over 1461 m way. EXTENDED by graph walk: +4 segment(s) at base, +2 at top (stop: base=no_descending_continuation, top=no_ascending_continuation; min_avg=2.0%). Review before adopting. DEDUPE: absorbed 3 overlapping proposal(s): sandiway-lane, sandiway-lane-2, sawpitts-lane ADOPTED (England launch slice 2026-08-16): clean-steep. AUTO-NAMED from gazetteer (hypothesis, unreviewed): was 'Discovered lane (51.8406, -2.6581)'.",
"naming_note": "auto-named from gazetteer (hypothesis, unreviewed); discovered as 'Discovered lane (51.8406, -2.6581)'"
}