Stock Ghyll Lane
913.8 m · net rise 90.4 m · total ascent 95.1 m · overall 9.9% · confidence: good · Ambleside · Cumbria
Shape: sustained — 38% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 152 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.
≈ Overhead cover (tree canopy or structures) spans 33% 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) | ≈53% | 297–299 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 61.1% at 281–283 m across a structure — excluded |
| 3 m (diagnostic) | ≈50% | 296–299 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 60.2% at 281–284 m across a structure — excluded |
| 5 m | ≈45% | 295–300 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 48.8% at 280–285 m across a structure — excluded |
| 10 m | 37% | 290–300 m | |
| 20 m | ≈29.2% | 289–309 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 32.8% at 280–300 m across a structure — excluded |
| 25 m | ≈26.3% | 289–314 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 30.6% at 280–305 m across a structure — excluded |
| 50 m | ≈18.9% | 627–677 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 19.9% at 280–330 m across a structure — excluded |
| 100 m | ≈16.7% | 624–724 m | under overhead cover |
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,
100.0
],
"diagnostic_windows_m": [
2.0,
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],
"elevation_crs": "EPSG:27700",
"elevation_resolution_m": 1.0,
"elevation_tiles": [
"data/cache/england/bulk_dtm_1m/NY3500.tif"
],
"calculated_at": "2026-08-19T18:48:39+00:00",
"road_source": "OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)",
"road_attribution": "\u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL",
"osm_pbf_path": "data/cache/pbf/england-2026-08-12.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 14.5% over 200 m (Terrain 50), gain 42.5 m over 302 m way. EXTENDED by graph walk: +8 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): stock-ghyll-lane-2 ADOPTED (England launch slice 2026-08-16): qualified-steep."
}