Cairo Street
291.0 m · net rise 31.4 m · overall 10.8% · evidence quality B (good) · Tonypandy · Mid Glamorgan · share
Shape: sustained — 37% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 64 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) | ≈18% | 245–247 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 44.3% at 289–291 m across a structure — excluded |
| 3 m (diagnostic) | ≈18% | 239–242 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 38.5% at 288–291 m across a structure — excluded |
| 5 m | ≈18% | 239–244 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 32.1% at 286–291 m across a structure — excluded |
| 10 m | ≈17% | 239–249 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 27.2% at 281–291 m across a structure — excluded |
| 20 m | ≈16.7% | 236–256 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 23.0% at 271–291 m across a structure — excluded |
| 25 m | ≈16.2% | 231–256 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 20.3% at 266–291 m across a structure — excluded |
| 50 m | ≈14.1% | 208–258 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 16.8% at 241–291 m across a structure — excluded |
| 100 m | ≈12.2% | 158–258 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 14.4% at 191–291 m across a structure — excluded |
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
No aerial layer here: Britain has no open or government source of aerial photography at road scale — the pan-government APGB imagery is licensed to the public sector only, unlike the LiDAR this survey is measured from. Street View, where it exists, is the visual check.
This climb's data: OCL JSON — the full gradient ladder, quality flags and provenance in the OpenClimb Ladder format.
Access: Trimmed 2026-09-18 at the driveway and re-measured (Peter, on the aerial photography and Street View: the steep part is a driveway). Cairo Street runs to 291 m and an alley takes over after it, so the route is cut at 291 m of 358 m. On the new line the steepest 25 m falls 16.19 % (was 22.27 %). The new figure is below the 20 % ranking door, so the page is listed rather than ranked: kept for the record, at the honest number.
Measured, not vetted. This page records what the laser record shows about the road's shape — nothing more. Nobody has necessarily ridden or inspected this road for the survey, and a page here is not a recommendation and no guarantee that the road is open, surfaced, rideable or safe. Gates, private sections, missing rights of way and hazards do not show up in elevation data. Check access and conditions on the ground and make your own judgment.
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Route colour = gradient over a 25 m window: <10% 10–20% 20–25% ≥25%
© OpenStreetMap contributors · topo tiles © OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA) · vector tiles OpenFreeMap
Profile
The map, profile and gradient chart share one position — move your pointer over them and the marker follows. Colors are the gradient bands; the shaded span is the steepest 25 m. Any 25 m figure is good to about a point either way (why).
Measurement card
| Elevation | Welsh Government — Welsh Government LiDAR 1m DTM (2020-2023) |
|---|---|
| Resolution / CRS | 1.0 m grid, EPSG:27700; sampled every 1.0 m, bilinear interpolation |
| Tiles | wg_del_5_300191_20201201dtm.tif, wg_del_5_300192_20201224dtm.tif, wg_del_5_301191_20201201dtm.tif, wg_del_5_301192_20201224dtm.tif |
| Road centreline | OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract), snapshot 2026-08-10T20:21:40Z |
| Quality status | evidence quality B; caveated windows: texture excluded |
| Analysis | OCL 0.1.0, analysis 0.1.0, run wales-remeasure-260918, calculated 2026-09-19 |
Provenance
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"calculated_at": "2026-09-19T03:18:00+00:00",
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"road_attribution": "\u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL",
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"osm_snapshot": "2026-08-10T20:21:40Z",
"run_id": "wales-remeasure-260918",
"elevation_provider": "Welsh Government",
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],
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"structure_own_ways": "none \u2014 the route carried no way list; own decks unmasked",
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}
},
"door_status": "below every adoption door at fold time \u2014 kept pending: a published page falling below the door after an honest re-measure keeps its page and is LISTED, not ranked (the 2026-09-15 Welsh re-lines' own treatment); only Peter's explicit word retires a published page",
"license": "ODbL-1.0",
"license_url": "https://howsteep.org/licensing"
}