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Berwyn to Blaen-Bache Dingle°

6051.5 m · gain 275.9 m · overall 4.6% · The Dingle · Sir Ddinbych - Denbighshire

Shape: sustained — 41% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 247 m.

An unlisted find of this survey, on no list we know of. It was discovered by analysing LiDAR terrain data and cross-checked against the OS road network, surface models and map tags — but despite all that, 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 that someone is you, 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 appears on no list we know of, 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 (52.9659, -3.1943)'). Corrections welcome.

≈ Overhead cover (tree canopy or structures) spans 38% 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, not wrong. Longer windows average over more clean ground and are steadier.

Gradient ladder what do windows mean?

WindowMaximumLocated at
2 m (diagnostic)54.6%2082–2084 munder overhead cover terrain reads 130.7% at 661–663 m across a structure — excluded
3 m (diagnostic)49.7%2082–2085 munder overhead cover terrain reads 104.7% at 661–664 m across a structure — excluded
5 m36.8%2157–2162 munder overhead cover terrain reads 73.7% at 660–665 m across terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
10 m30.6%2156–2166 munder overhead cover terrain reads 49.8% at 599–609 m across terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
20 m24.9%2329–2349 munder overhead cover terrain reads 34.8% at 591–611 m across terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
25 m21.7%2328–2353 munder overhead cover terrain reads 31.7% at 587–612 m across terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
50 m16.7%3294–3344 munder overhead cover terrain reads 25.2% at 563–613 m across terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
100 m15.8%3248–3348 munder overhead cover terrain reads 20.6% at 565–665 m across terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded

may_start_earlierdescends_at_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

  © OpenStreetMap contributors · topo tiles © OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA) · vector tiles OpenFreeMap

Berwyn to Blaen-Bache Dingle LiDAR hillshade map with contours

Profile

Berwyn to Blaen-Bache Dingle elevation profile Berwyn to Blaen-Bache Dingle rolling gradient profile

Provenance

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  "interpolation": "bilinear",
  "smoothing": "none",
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  "elevation_crs": "EPSG:27700",
  "elevation_resolution_m": 1.0,
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  "calculated_at": "2026-08-12T09:09:31+00:00",
  "road_source": "OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)",
  "road_attribution": "\u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL",
  "osm_pbf_path": "data/cache/pbf/wales-2026-08-11.osm.pbf",
  "osm_snapshot": "2026-08-10T20:21:40Z",
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  "elevation_dataset": "Welsh Government LiDAR 1m DTM (2020-2023)",
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  "elevation_capture_dates": [
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  "climb_origin": "discovered",
  "notes": "Coarse pass: max 15.8% over 200 m (Terrain 50), gain 272.6 m over 5970 m way. EXTENDED by graph walk: +1 segment(s) at base, +0 at top (stop: base=no_descending_continuation, top=no_ascending_continuation; min_avg=2.0%). Review before adopting. DEDUPE: absorbed 2 overlapping proposal(s): discovered-lane-52-9701-3-1801, willow-street ADOPTED (notable slice 2026-08-11): big-gain. AUTO-NAMED from gazetteer (hypothesis, unreviewed): was 'Discovered lane (52.9659, -3.1943)'.",
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