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Vinegar Hill

640.5 m · net rise 42.7 m · total ascent 46.6 m · overall 6.7% · confidence: needs confirmation · Offleyhay · Staffordshire · share

Shape: sustained — 39% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 47 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.

needs review short window divergence — treat short-window maxima here as provisional.

Gradient ladder what do windows mean?

Window	Maximum	Located at
2 m (diagnostic)	≈51%	139–141 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 67.9% at 50–52 m across a structure — excluded
3 m (diagnostic)	≈46%	138–141 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 55.2% at 50–53 m across a structure — excluded
5 m	40%	138–143 m
10 m	32%	135–145 m
20 m	23.7%	132–152 m
25 m	21.7%	126–151 m
50 m	16.3%	104–154 m
100 m	≈11.7%	94–194 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 12.5% at 64–164 m across a structure — 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.

Access: Held from rankings 2026-09-04 (D21 D, hidden-steeper re-line): on the bench the EA point cloud finds the page reads below every door, but the cloud cannot vouch for that line under its maximum — neither ranked nor retired until a cross-section look. Published number stands.

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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Vinegar Hill 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.

Measurement card

Elevation	Environment Agency — EA LIDAR Composite DTM 1m (2022)
Resolution / CRS	1.0 m grid, EPSG:27700; sampled every 1.0 m, bilinear interpolation
Tiles	SJ7525.tif
Road centreline	OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract), snapshot 2026-08-12T20:21:46Z
Quality status	measurement confidence U; review flags: short window divergence
Analysis	OCL 0.1.0, analysis 0.1.0, run mask-rebatch-2-260823, calculated 2026-08-23

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/SJ7525.tif"
  ],
  "calculated_at": "2026-08-23T14:11:41+00:00",
  "road_source": "OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)",
  "road_attribution": "\u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL",
  "osm_pbf_path": "data/cache/pbf/england-2026-08-12.osm.pbf",
  "osm_snapshot": "2026-08-12T20:21:46Z",
  "run_id": "mask-rebatch-2-260823",
  "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": [
    "SJ7525.tif"
  ],
  "climb_origin": "discovered",
  "mask_ranges_m": [
    [
      55.0,
      87.0
    ]
  ],
  "license": "ODbL-1.0",
  "license_url": "https://howsteep.org/licensing.html"
}