Talk:Nine Mile Ride

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According to Google Maps, the length of Nine Mile Ride from Park Lane in the West to the A322 in the East is 6.7 Miles so where is the proof that this is a 9 mile stretch of road?

Motorcyclists (like myself) prefer roads with lots of bends in them, that is part of the whole joy of being a motorcyclist so I don't understand the comment that it is popular to motorcylists because of its straightness. What evidence is there that the road is popular with motorcyclists - has there been some survey to back this up, and if motorcyclists do use this road more than others, is there evidence to suggest it is because it is straight? I doubt it. There is only two good bends between the A3095 and the Look Out that a motorcyclist would probably enjoy about this road and make it a "popular". The rest is just low speed urban roads with roundabouts.

I would be interested to see a citation or evidence as to why it is 9 miles long and a citation as to why the author believes it is popular with motorcylists and if this was true, evidence that it was because it is a straight road.

Hi there used to be a pub on the 9 mile ride called the who’d of thought it was popular with bikers and after they’ve had a skinful they would go and race the bikes down at the 9 mile ride because of it straightness and lack of intersecting roads. This was back in the late 70s Alternative truth (talk) 11:55, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

All that being said there is no way that George the third built this giant straight road for hunting what he did was renovate and existing Roman road and claimed it as his own work Alternative truth (talk) 12:03, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Conflicting statements

Under Character, there's a colloquially-worded section that concludes "really putting into doubt that this was only built in the Georgian era", but under History, there's the statement "the Nine Mile Ride is not a Roman road but was built for King George III". smu95rp (talk) 14:56, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

Another unusual fact about the 9 mile ride is that if you get a ruler and put it on a high quality ordinance survey map along the 9 mile ride it will clearly show that the projected trajectory will meet the devils highway there so Chester and travelling east along 9 mile ride Will take you to stains or punters in Roman times Alternative truth (talk) 12:01, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

In the absence of a historian adding insightful information as to where Nine Mile Ride got its name from, I would like to provide an insight. If you extend the current 6.7 mile section of road at the western end to meet the A327 and eastern end to connect directly to Swinley Lodge, where the A332/B3017 junction is in Ascot, the road is exactly 9 miles long. So if you were heading from Heatherwood Hospital along the A332 (Kings Ride) and instead of turning the bend where the B3017 junction is (and Kings Ride ends), you could keep going in a straight line, you would join the start of Nine Mile Ride going precisely along it's current course past the Coral Reef and The Lookout. This theoretical section would pass through Swinley Park/Swinley Forest and there are is already a track covering the start and end of this section called Windsor Ride. So my assumption is Nine Mile Ride started at Swinley Lodge went along the present day Windsor Ride track through Swinley Park and met up at New Forest Ride opposite Worlds End Hill and continued to the present day Nine Mile Ride. At the western end of Nine Mile Ride, there is nothing except a junction with Park Lane, but possibly originally it went through to HogWood House - perhaps the Farm looked after the hunting horses and hounds. The school nearby is called "Bohunt" - some reference to the hunting past of this area? — Preceding unsigned comment added by DC 1968 (talk • contribs) 19:42, 27 May 2018 (UTC)