Pontshill to Hazel Hill°
3994.2 m · net rise 178.4 m · total ascent 205.1 m · overall 4.5% · confidence: good · Pontshill · Herefordshire
Shape: stepped — 59% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 146 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 (51.8766, -2.5473)'). Corrections welcome.
≈ Overhead cover (tree canopy or structures) spans 9% 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) | ≈43% | 3134–3136 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 62.2% at 3282–3284 m across a structure — excluded |
| 3 m (diagnostic) | ≈38% | 3134–3137 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 52.6% at 3282–3285 m across a structure — excluded |
| 5 m | ≈34% | 3050–3055 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 40.6% at 3281–3286 m across a structure — excluded |
| 10 m | ≈30% | 3356–3366 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 31.4% at 3281–3291 m across a structure — excluded |
| 20 m | 27.3% | 3345–3365 m | |
| 25 m | 26.7% | 3341–3366 m | |
| 50 m | 19.7% | 3340–3390 m | |
| 100 m | ≈17.5% | 3686–3786 m | under overhead cover |
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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"smoothing": "none",
"gradient_windows_m": [
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20.0,
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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/SO6015.tif",
"data/cache/england/bulk_dtm_1m/SO6020.tif"
],
"calculated_at": "2026-08-15T12:54:16+00:00",
"road_source": "OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)",
"road_attribution": "\u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL",
"osm_pbf_path": "data/cache/pbf/england-2026-08-12-roads.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 12.2% over 200 m (Terrain 50), gain 106.7 m over 3389 m way. EXTENDED by graph walk: +0 segment(s) at base, +3 at top (stop: base=no_descending_continuation, top=no_ascending_continuation; min_avg=2.0%). Review before adopting. DEDUPE: absorbed 1 overlapping proposal(s): discovered-lane-51-8647-2-5331",
"naming_note": "auto-named from gazetteer (hypothesis, unreviewed); discovered as 'Discovered lane (51.8766, -2.5473)'"
}