Do you have any landmarks you look out for so you know you are near home?

[Geekster1963]

As kids when the power satiation’s and the pit came into view we always knew we were nearly home. Now it’s when we can see the ‘golf ball’, which is a radar station but from a distance looks like a giant golf ball, you can see it from miles away.

Cows - brown ones in the fields with the bulls and calves at the side of the motorway. Limousin ones - more cows than people.

A bridge over the M25. Always means we're nearly home.

Emley Moor mast for me too

Old John.

The Yorkshire Wolds rising in the distance front of me. We have a designated motorway flyover just before there that DS has to text me "nearly home' from when being brought home from sports fixtures.

The lucozade sign at Brentford and then the artists studios on Talgarth Road. Back home to lovely London.

Solomon's Temple

When I see the sea I know I'm near home.

The shard.

When I see the Angel of the North I know I'm nearly at my hometown (no longer live there), love seeing it, would love to see it now.

Someone has replied who must live quite close to me.........

The wonky spire at Chesterfield.

When I was little, the obelisk on Wychbury hill.

Obeliskly, as Dad used to say.

Stevenage

There used to be a concrete tower (I think it was used for radio /mobile phone masts) near us that the kids used to look out for when we got to our town but it's been knocked down now.
My kids have always insisted (since about the age of 4) they know what junction we are going to/from so we always count up/down on familiar journeys. When they were little i used to say we were going on a motor way sandwich when we went to the in laws (short A road journey/m25/short motorway journey) they had to think of a filling for each junction of the motorway and remember them. It helped pass the time before we got some story CDs.

The Hume Highway Chicken used to tell me I only had an hour or so left to go.

Now a TGI Friday marks the half way point, apart from that there’s not much of interest to tell me I’m nearly home!

the big orange RAC tower at Junction 16 of the M5

When we were very little it was the chalk cutting on the M40 near Stokenchurch. After we moved it became the rather less geologically important RAC Control Centre on the M6.

Pye Green Tower, can see it for miles around no matter which direction I’m travelling from.

The Angel of the North, and the Tyne Bridge. Love seeing the bridge as the train pulls into the station, on my way back from frequent meetings in London.

The spinnaker tower... 15mins from home when we see it x

The big sweeping turn off from the a1 on to the a168 and then Roseberry Topping.

Coming the other way, going over Portrack flyover.

Toys r us by the train station was always a sign I was home when I was at uni. In reality i still had a bus journey but spent a lot of time in the city so considered it home.

The mast on Winter Hill.

This will sound terrible, but currently I don't know which road is mine in the dark, because by day the estate boards are up, advertising the last phase of houses for sale... When the signs are gone I'll have the same problem by daylight.