Lemington Dean to Horseley Hill°
3686.1 m · net rise 168.5 m · total ascent 182.1 m · overall 4.6% · confidence: good · Auchencrow · Scottish Borders
Shape: sustained — 30% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 67 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 (55.8515, -2.2510)'). Corrections welcome.
≈ Overhead cover (tree canopy or structures) spans 12% 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) | ≈26% | 1942–1944 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 101.1% at 3–5 m across a structure — excluded |
| 3 m (diagnostic) | ≈21% | 1947–1950 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 66.4% at 3–6 m across a structure — excluded |
| 5 m | ≈20% | 1411–1416 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 45.1% at 3–8 m across a structure — excluded |
| 10 m | ≈14% | 2038–2048 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 24.3% at 3–13 m across a structure — excluded |
| 20 m | ≈13.5% | 2028–2048 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 14.2% at 3–23 m across a structure — excluded |
| 25 m | 13.2% | 2029–2054 m | |
| 50 m | ≈12.3% | 2004–2054 m | under overhead cover |
| 100 m | ≈10.8% | 1976–2076 m | under overhead cover |
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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"sample_interval_m": 1.0,
"interpolation": "bilinear",
"smoothing": "none",
"gradient_windows_m": [
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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": 0.5,
"elevation_tiles": [
"data/cache/scotland/phase-3/dtm/NT86SW.tif",
"data/cache/scotland/phase-3/dtm/NT86SE.tif"
],
"calculated_at": "2026-08-18T18:39:08+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": [
"NT86SW",
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],
"climb_origin": "discovered",
"notes": "Coarse pass: max 9.3% over 200 m (Terrain 50), gain 113.9 m over 2632 m way. EXTENDED by graph walk: +4 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 1 overlapping proposal(s): discovered-lane-55-8541-2-2332 ADOPTED (Scotland launch 2026-08-18): big-gain. AUTO-NAMED from gazetteer (hypothesis, unreviewed): was 'Discovered lane (55.8515, -2.2510)'.",
"naming_note": "auto-named from gazetteer (hypothesis, unreviewed); discovered as 'Discovered lane (55.8515, -2.2510)'"
}