Hookway Hill
1765.1 m · net rise 138.7 m · total ascent 143.7 m · overall 7.9% · confidence: good · Met Combe · Somerset
Shape: stepped — 45% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 222 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.
Gradient ladder what do windows mean?
| Window | Maximum | Located at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 m (diagnostic) | ≈47% | 699–701 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 64.2% at 711–713 m across a structure — excluded |
| 3 m (diagnostic) | ≈46% | 698–701 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 60.0% at 710–713 m across a structure — excluded |
| 5 m | ≈44% | 698–703 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 51.1% at 709–714 m across a structure — excluded |
| 10 m | ≈40% | 698–708 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 42.6% at 704–714 m across a structure — excluded |
| 20 m | ≈31.1% | 688–708 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 39.2% at 694–714 m across a structure — excluded |
| 25 m | ≈28.4% | 683–708 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 35.6% at 689–714 m across a structure — excluded |
| 50 m | ≈23.4% | 658–708 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 26.6% at 665–715 m across a structure — excluded |
| 100 m | ≈22.2% | 608–708 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 23.6% at 614–714 m across a structure — excluded |
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
{
"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,
100.0
],
"diagnostic_windows_m": [
2.0,
3.0
],
"elevation_crs": "EPSG:27700",
"elevation_resolution_m": 1.0,
"elevation_tiles": [
"data/cache/england/bulk_dtm_1m/SS8045.tif"
],
"calculated_at": "2026-08-15T05:18:49+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": [
"SS8045.tif"
],
"climb_origin": "discovered",
"notes": "Coarse pass: max 18.6% over 200 m (Terrain 50), gain 39.1 m over 230 m way. EXTENDED by graph walk: +2 segment(s) at base, +1 at top (stop: base=no_descending_continuation, top=no_ascending_continuation; min_avg=2.0%). Review before adopting. DEDUPE: absorbed 1 overlapping proposal(s): hookway-hill-2"
}