Wessenden Head Road
3314.9 m · net rise 248.0 m · total ascent 254.9 m · overall 7.5% · confidence: good · Middle Clough
Shape: sustained — 30% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 56 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) | ≈16% | 855–857 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 87.2% at 563–565 m across a structure — excluded |
| 3 m (diagnostic) | ≈14% | 859–862 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 70.0% at 563–566 m across a structure — excluded |
| 5 m | ≈14% | 855–860 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 48.6% at 562–567 m across a structure — excluded |
| 10 m | ≈13% | 37–47 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 28.3% at 562–572 m across a structure — excluded |
| 20 m | ≈12.2% | 29–49 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 17.8% at 562–582 m across a structure — excluded |
| 25 m | ≈11.7% | 24–49 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 16.1% at 562–587 m across a structure — excluded |
| 50 m | ≈10.7% | 1468–1518 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 12.4% at 562–612 m across a structure — excluded |
| 100 m | ≈10.3% | 1447–1547 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 10.6% at 562–662 m across a structure — excluded |
may_start_earlierdescends_at_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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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/SE0505.tif",
"data/cache/england/bulk_dtm_1m/SE0510.tif"
],
"calculated_at": "2026-08-15T19:07:14+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": [
"SE0505.tif",
"SE0510.tif"
],
"climb_origin": "discovered",
"notes": "Coarse pass: max 10.3% over 200 m (Terrain 50), gain 216.4 m over 2940 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 2 overlapping proposal(s): leygards-lane, wessenden-head-road-2"
}