Station Road
1987.5 m · net rise 221.1 m · total ascent 228.3 m · overall 11.1% · confidence: good · Clydach · Sir Fynwy / Monmouthshire
Shape: sustained — 40% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 346 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.
≈ Overhead cover (tree canopy or structures) spans 25% 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) | ≈45% | 1248–1250 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 77.2% at 32–34 m across a structure — excluded |
| 3 m (diagnostic) | ≈42% | 1247–1250 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 76.0% at 31–34 m across a structure — excluded |
| 5 m | ≈36% | 1721–1726 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 66.6% at 30–35 m across a structure — excluded |
| 10 m | ≈29% | 1717–1727 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 55.1% at 30–40 m across a structure — excluded |
| 20 m | ≈26.8% | 1114–1134 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 30.8% at 21–41 m across a structure — excluded |
| 25 m | ≈26.4% | 1109–1134 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 26.5% at 1225–1250 m across a structure — excluded |
| 50 m | ≈24.2% | 1114–1164 m | under overhead cover |
| 100 m | ≈22.1% | 1068–1168 m | under overhead cover |
may_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
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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"analysis_version": "0.1.0",
"sample_interval_m": 1.0,
"interpolation": "bilinear",
"smoothing": "none",
"gradient_windows_m": [
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10.0,
20.0,
25.0,
50.0,
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],
"diagnostic_windows_m": [
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3.0
],
"elevation_crs": "EPSG:27700",
"elevation_resolution_m": 1.0,
"elevation_tiles": [
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"data/cache/wales/dtm_1m/wg_del_20_322213_20220112dtm.tif",
"data/cache/wales/dtm_1m/wg_del_20_323212_20220112dtm.tif",
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],
"calculated_at": "2026-08-12T09:11:18+00:00",
"road_source": "OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)",
"road_attribution": "\u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL",
"osm_pbf_path": "data/cache/pbf/wales-2026-08-11.osm.pbf",
"osm_snapshot": "2026-08-10T20:21:40Z",
"elevation_provider": "Welsh Government",
"elevation_dataset": "Welsh Government LiDAR 1m DTM (2020-2023)",
"elevation_licence": "Open Government Licence v3 \u2014 \u00a9 Crown copyright Welsh Government",
"elevation_catalogue_layer": "geonode:welsh_government_lidar_tile_catalogue_2020_2023",
"elevation_tile_ids": [
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],
"elevation_capture_dates": [
"12-01-2022",
"27-02-2021"
],
"climb_origin": "discovered",
"notes": "Coarse pass: max 13.3% over 200 m (Terrain 50), gain 61.5 m over 862 m way. EXTENDED by graph walk: +1 segment(s) at base, +3 at top (stop: base=no_descending_continuation, top=no_ascending_continuation; min_avg=2.0%). Review before adopting. DEDUPE: absorbed 3 overlapping proposal(s): rhiwr-road, station-road, waenllapria ADOPTED (notable slice 2026-08-11): endurance,qualified-steep."
}