Lofthouse to Middlesmoor°
1507.3 m · net rise 129.6 m · overall 8.6% · confidence: good · Lofthouse · North Yorkshire
Shape: sustained — 37% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 270 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 (54.1583, -1.8548)'). Corrections welcome.
Gradient ladder what do windows mean?
| Window | Maximum | Located at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 m (diagnostic) | ≈26% | 1336–1338 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 118.8% at 5–7 m across a structure — excluded |
| 3 m (diagnostic) | ≈26% | 1339–1342 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 114.2% at 4–7 m across a structure — excluded |
| 5 m | ≈26% | 1336–1341 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 81.5% at 3–8 m across a structure — excluded |
| 10 m | ≈25% | 1334–1344 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 47.0% at 0–10 m across a structure — excluded |
| 20 m | ≈23.7% | 1334–1354 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 25.2% at 0–20 m across a structure — excluded |
| 25 m | 23.4% | 1336–1361 m | |
| 50 m | 20.9% | 1329–1379 m | |
| 100 m | 17.9% | 1328–1428 m |
may_start_earliermay_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": [
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10.0,
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/SE0570.tif",
"data/cache/england/bulk_dtm_1m/SE1070.tif"
],
"calculated_at": "2026-08-15T22:27:09+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 95.4 m over 1229 m way. EXTENDED by graph walk: +2 segment(s) at base, +4 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-54-1633-1-8610",
"naming_note": "auto-named from gazetteer (hypothesis, unreviewed); discovered as 'Discovered lane (54.1583, -1.8548)'"
}