The upward continuation of Roman Road isn't even a road any more: it's marked "Not suitable for vehicles", and it gets rougher and steeper as it goes up. Some tarmac remains, but it will be gone; the holes on both sides are eroding wider. Straining to the top on my bicycle,

I wasn't going to stop for a party of grockles walking past; I rode between the Daddy Grockle and the hat he happened to have dropped at that moment.

On the right corner is where a railway station used to be, opposite on the left corner is the Victoria Inn, and in front is a roundabout, where Clappentail Lane (ahead)— (?

meets the Lyme-to-Uplyme road, left— (?

and right— (?