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Victoria Crescent

338.7 m · net rise 41.6 m · overall 12.3% · confidence: high · Selkirk · Scottish Borders

Shape: sustained — 36% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 155 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?

WindowMaximumLocated at
2 m (diagnostic)29%105–107 m
3 m (diagnostic)28%105–108 m
5 m26%103–108 m
10 m23%98–108 m
20 m21.5%88–108 m
25 m20.8%83–108 m
50 m18.6%58–108 m
100 m17.4%8–108 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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  © OpenStreetMap contributors · topo tiles © OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA) · vector tiles OpenFreeMap

Victoria Crescent LiDAR hillshade map with contours

Profile

Victoria Crescent elevation profile Victoria Crescent rolling gradient profile

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,
    3.0
  ],
  "elevation_crs": "EPSG:27700",
  "elevation_resolution_m": 0.5,
  "elevation_tiles": [
    "data/cache/scotland/phase-4/dtm/NT42NE.tif"
  ],
  "calculated_at": "2026-08-18T18:40:34+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 4 50cm",
  "elevation_tile_ids": [
    "NT42NE"
  ],
  "climb_origin": "discovered",
  "notes": "Coarse pass: max 14.1% over 200 m (Terrain 50), gain 32.2 m over 232 m way. EXTENDED by graph walk: +0 segment(s) at base, +3 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."
}