Ffordd-las to Hay Bluff°
6927.0 m · net rise 293.8 m · total ascent 381.9 m · overall 4.2% · confidence: needs confirmation · Tregoyd · Powys
Shape: sustained — 42% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 259 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.
° 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 — (auto-named from gazetteer (hypothesis, unreviewed); discovered as 'Discovered lane (52.0153, -3.1259)'). Corrections welcome.
needs review short_window_divergence — treat short-window maxima here as provisional.
≈ Overhead cover (tree canopy or structures) spans 21% of this route — detected by comparing the surface model (DSM, treetops and rooftops) against the terrain model (DTM, bare ground). Under cover the bare-ground model is built from fewer laser returns, so metre-scale readings can wobble; maxima whose window sits in a covered zone are marked ≈ below — less certain — the flag does not say whether the true value is higher or lower. Longer windows average over more clean ground and are steadier.
Gradient ladder what do windows mean?
| Window | Maximum | Located at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 m (diagnostic) | ≈52% | 498–500 m | under overhead cover |
| 3 m (diagnostic) | ≈50% | 497–500 m | under overhead cover |
| 5 m | ≈45% | 497–502 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 46.5% at 795–800 m across terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded |
| 10 m | ≈35% | 497–507 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 40.7% at 794–804 m across terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded |
| 20 m | ≈29.5% | 497–517 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 34.7% at 793–813 m across terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded |
| 25 m | ≈28.7% | 839–864 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 32.6% at 788–813 m across terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded |
| 50 m | ≈25.0% | 952–1002 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 26.8% at 763–813 m across terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded |
| 100 m | ≈22.3% | 816–916 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 25.1% at 775–875 m across terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded |
may_start_earlier 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
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20.0,
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"calculated_at": "2026-08-12T09:07:39+00:00",
"road_source": "OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)",
"road_attribution": "\u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL",
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"osm_snapshot": "2026-08-10T20:21:40Z",
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"elevation_dataset": "Welsh Government LiDAR 1m DTM (2020-2023)",
"elevation_licence": "Open Government Licence v3 \u2014 \u00a9 Crown copyright Welsh Government",
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"notes": "Coarse pass: max 11.0% over 200 m (Terrain 50), gain 154.3 m over 4850 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 13 overlapping proposal(s): discovered-lane-52-0182-3-1206, discovered-lane-52-0197-3-1133, discovered-lane-52-0212-3-1487, discovered-lane-52-0280-3-1169, discovered-lane-52-0304-3-1093, discovered-lane-52-0328-3-1114 \u2026 ADOPTED (notable slice 2026-08-11): big-gain,qualified-steep. AUTO-NAMED from gazetteer (hypothesis, unreviewed): was 'Discovered lane (52.0153, -3.1259)'.",
"naming_note": "auto-named from gazetteer (hypothesis, unreviewed); discovered as 'Discovered lane (52.0153, -3.1259)'"
}