West Country Climbs Guidebook

Description

This is a selective rock climbing guidebook to southwest England, which spans the full spectrum of climbing styles and grades; from committing multi-pitch sea cliff routes, to easy-going inland sport climbs. The rock ranges from the moorland and sea cliff granites of Dartmoor and West Penwith, through the geological weirdness of North Devon and Cornwall, to the multitude of limestone rock on parade in Devon, Somerset, Avon and the Wye Valley.  Although it’s a selected guidebook, it contains many routes on lesser-known crags giving great coverage for all climbers wanting to visit this fantastic holiday area.  

The following crags are included in the guidebook:

• Wye Valley: Wynd Cliff, Wyndcliff Quarry, Symonds Yat, Shorn Cliff, Ban-y-gor, Wintour's Leap.
• Avon: Avon Gorge, Portishead, Goblin Coombe, Split Rock Quarry, Fairy Cave Quarry, Uphill Quarry, Brean Down, Cheddar Gorge (introduction only).
• North Devon and the Culm Coast: Valley of Rocks, Baggy Point, Lundy (introduction only), Blackchurch, Smoothlands, Dyer's Lookout, Screda Point, Speke's Mill Mouth, Gull Rock, Cornakey Cliff, Vicarage Cliff, Oldwalls' Point, Lower Sharpnose, Compass Point.
• Atlantic Coast and Inland Cornwall: Tintagel, Doyden Point, Pentire Head, Carn Gowla, Cheesewring Quarry, The Devil's Jump, Roche Rock.
• West Penwith: Wicca Pillar, Zennor Cliff, Gurnard's Head, Carn Gloose, Robin's Rocks, Halldrine Cove, Bosigran, Great Zawn and Bosigran Ridge, Kenidjack, Sennen, Land's End, Pordenack Point, Carn Les Boel, Zawn Kellys, Carn Barra, Fox Promontory, Chair Ladder, Porthgwarra, Hella Point, Vessacks West, St. Levan's Wall, Cribba Head, St. Loy, Tater Du.
• The Lizard: Trewavas Head, Coastguard Cliff, Pen Olver, Bass Point, Black Head.
• Inland Devon and Dartmoor: Chudleigh, Torbryan Quarry, Haytor, Hound Tor, Chinkwell Tor, Lucky Tor, Bench Tor, Sheeps Tor, The Dewerstone
• Torbay: Berry Head, Churston Quarry, Daddyhole, Anstey's Cove, Long Quarry Point

In total 1,771 routes are described across a wide range of grades.  All the routes are shown on colour photo topos, and each crag has detailed access information and maps.

Published by Rockfax in December 2022 (revised 2^nd edition) it has over twice the number of routes than previous edition, and includes the usual set of inspirational action photographs.

Number of pages is 640.
Size is 150mm x 210mm (A5 format).
ISBN is 9781873341889.