• Hunter House Road
• Length: 0.24 miles
• Avg gradient: 12%   Peak gradient: 16.2%
• Difficulty: 2/5
• Likelihood of encountering unpleasant motor-vehicles: 2/5 (oncoming vehicles could be tricky since it’s always parked up on both sides)
• Strava

Featuring in one of the opening scenes of the Jodie Whittaker’s first Dr Who episode, Hunter House Road is a fairly quiet residential road, just off Hunters Bar, an area immortalised by the Arctic Monkeys on Fake Tales of San Francisco.  Your biggest challenge here are cars coming downhill, as both sides of the road are always parked up, leaving you little room to manoeuvre without losing your momentum.

The climb begins immediately, starting at 10% at the junction with Pinner Road, and the steepness steadily increases as you climb. You’ll hit a peak of 16.2% at house number 60, which is marked by a garage set back from the road.  You’re about two thirds of the way up the hill by now and beginning to feel the strain.

Continue straight up until the road bends round to the left, at what looks like the hill’s apex.  However, looks can be deceiving and you’ll find that the climb continues round the corner.  A short distance more and the gradient drastically eases off just as you reach the Hunter Court flats.

• urban