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Dartmeet°

1042.5 m · net rise 129.6 m · total ascent 130.4 m · overall 12.4% · evidence quality B (good) · Dartmeet · Devon ·

Shape: sustained — 31% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 532 m.

Matches: 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs (Simon Warren) — As "Dartmeet".

° The name is provisional: this climb is not yet matched to a documented name, so it was named from nearby map places. There is no evidence of local usage — (Renamed from 'Discovered lane (50.5444, -3.8737)' under the identification-certain rule (2026-08-13 exception): route verified against the established feature by geometry in the 2026-08-28 fame-door review (fame-backfill-verdicts.csv).). Corrections welcome.

Gradient ladder what do windows mean?

WindowMaximumLocated at
2 m (diagnostic)≈29%42–44 munder overhead cover terrain reads 71.3% at 2–4 m across a structure — excluded
3 m (diagnostic)≈25%41–44 munder overhead cover terrain reads 64.9% at 1–4 m across a structure — excluded
5 m≈20%42–47 munder overhead cover terrain reads 43.6% at 0–5 m across a structure — excluded
10 m19%59–69 m
20 m18.4%53–73 m
25 m18.2%53–78 m
50 m17.7%42–92 m
100 m17.3%41–141 m

Measured on the mapped road line; moving the line 1 m either way reads 18.2–18.2% over 25 m.

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.

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

Dartmeet LiDAR hillshade map with contours

Profile

The 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).

Dartmeet elevation profile
Dartmeet rolling gradient profile
 

Measurement card

ElevationEnvironment Agency — EA LIDAR Composite DTM 1m (2022)
Resolution / CRS1.0 m grid, EPSG:27700; sampled every 1.0 m, bilinear interpolation
TilesSX6570.tif
Road centrelineOpenStreetMap (local PBF extract), snapshot 2026-08-12T20:21:46Z
Quality statusevidence quality B; caveated windows: canopy or structure, structure excluded
AnalysisOCL 0.1.0, analysis 0.1.0, run identifier not recorded (legacy measurement, before the campaign driver stamped runs), calculated 2026-08-15

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": 1.0,
  "elevation_tiles": [
    "data/cache/england/bulk_dtm_1m/SX6570.tif"
  ],
  "calculated_at": "2026-08-15T01:34:19+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": [
    "SX6570.tif"
  ],
  "climb_origin": "discovered",
  "naming_note": "Renamed from 'Discovered lane (50.5444, -3.8737)' under the identification-certain rule (2026-08-13 exception): route verified against the established feature by geometry in the 2026-08-28 fame-door review (fame-backfill-verdicts.csv).",
  "license": "ODbL-1.0",
  "license_url": "https://howsteep.org/licensing"
}