Côte de Whatnow? (Or: Yorkshire, I love you.)

[katieastrophe]

I've just been looking at the map of today's stage of Le Tour de France Yorkshire (this year, starting in England).

The map lists the biggest hills on the route, and despite this section of the route being in England, the names are prefaced "Côte de…"

There's three hills worthy of note on the map today. The first, Côte de Cray… well, that actually looks like it could even be French. The last one's pushing it a bit: Côte de Grinton Moor. Maybe if it were just Côte de Grinton it might look like the Français prefix belonged there, but c'est la vie…

The middle one, however? The biggest, toughest hill of the day? Of course, it's the one with the slightly cutesy, not even slightly continental name.

Côte de Buttertubs.

Oh, Yorkshire. <3

Comments

[swaldman]

You made me cackle out loud....

[jack]

LOL! Yay, Yorkshire!

[scatmania]

I shared this discovery with /r/britishproblems. They were suitably amused, too.

[lovingboth]

It was the Côte de Jenkin Road that amused me.

If the weather forecast had been better - as in 'right' as well as 'not rainy' - we would have gone there.

Quite remarkable crowds, and some obviously amazing 'out of sight' parking arrangements.

[katieastrophe]

I was on Côte de Jenkin Road (which was signposted at the bottom as being Côte de Wincobank, for extra lolarity). I have photos… I may well get round to processing and posting them before BiCon, but I'll have my laptop if you want to have a look at them then, in all their non-compressed-for-web glory.

[lovingboth]

I would love to see them.