Black Head to Shepherd's Hill°
1896.0 m · net rise 102.3 m · total ascent 120.5 m · overall 5.4% · confidence: good · Craig Anthony · Dumfries and Galloway
Shape: sustained — 34% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 70 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 (54.8662, -5.1351)'). Corrections welcome.
Gradient ladder what do windows mean?
| Window | Maximum | Located at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 m (diagnostic) | ≈41% | 50–52 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 80.6% at 512–514 m across a structure — excluded |
| 3 m (diagnostic) | ≈35% | 39–42 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 73.5% at 512–515 m across a structure — excluded |
| 5 m | ≈32% | 39–44 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 47.5% at 511–516 m across a structure — excluded |
| 10 m | ≈27% | 36–46 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 27.6% at 506–516 m across a structure — excluded |
| 20 m | 22.6% | 25–45 m | |
| 25 m | 21.9% | 20–45 m | |
| 50 m | 20.0% | 2–52 m | |
| 100 m | 14.0% | 0–100 m |
may_start_earlier 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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"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,
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],
"diagnostic_windows_m": [
2.0,
3.0
],
"elevation_crs": "EPSG:27700",
"elevation_resolution_m": 0.5,
"elevation_tiles": [
"data/cache/scotland/phase-3/dtm/NW95NE.tif"
],
"calculated_at": "2026-08-18T18:37:19+00:00",
"road_source": "OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)",
"road_attribution": "\u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL",
"osm_pbf_path": "data/cache/pbf/scotland-2026-08-14-roads.osm.pbf",
"osm_snapshot": "2026-08-13T20:21:01Z",
"elevation_provider": "Scottish Remote Sensing Portal (AWS Open Data, srsp-open-data)",
"elevation_licence": "Open Government Licence v3 \u2014 \u00a9 Scottish Government, SEPA and partners; Crown copyright",
"elevation_dataset": "Scottish Public Sector LiDAR Phase 3 50cm",
"elevation_tile_ids": [
"NW95NE"
],
"route_summit_trim_m": 406.7,
"route_summit_trim_loss_m": 9.7,
"climb_origin": "discovered",
"notes": "Coarse pass: max 9.4% over 200 m (Terrain 50), gain 73.3 m over 2117 m way. EXTENDED by graph walk: +2 segment(s) at base, +0 at top (stop: base=no_descending_continuation, top=no_ascending_continuation; min_avg=2.0%). Review before adopting. ADOPTED (Scotland launch 2026-08-18): clean-steep. AUTO-NAMED from gazetteer (hypothesis, unreviewed): was 'Discovered lane (54.8662, -5.1351)'.",
"naming_note": "auto-named from gazetteer (hypothesis, unreviewed); discovered as 'Discovered lane (54.8662, -5.1351)'"
}