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Avon and Cheddar

Avon and Cheddar
Author Martin Crocker
Published Climbers' Club (2004)
ISBN 0-901601-75-6

This Guidebook is now out of print, and unavailable

Website climbers-club.co.uk

Review

Seasoned guidebook author Martin Crocker's second Avon and Cheddar guide, which, as well as reappraising existing routes, describes over 500 new ones. These include, for example, The Quiet Mind (E7 6a/b), with its blind and reachy crux, and the sport route Academic (F8a), both at Avon. Holcombe Quarry in the Mendips has provided over 50 sport routes, Brean Down nearly twice that number of mainly trad offerings. Cheddar is the scene for three F8a+ testpieces: Homegrown, The Empire Strikes Back, and Bristol Weed, as well as the E8 free version of Fornicator Simulator. Not all the additions are at cutting-edge grades however; Cheddar has a host of sub-E1 additions.


Crags covered by this Guide
Avon crags # climbs Rocktype Faces
Avon Gorge (Main Area) 295 Limestone W
Avon Gorge (Sea Walls Area) 448 Limestone SW
Avon Gorge (Suspension Bridge Area) 227 Limestone W
Blaise Castle Gorge 165 Limestone W
Bourton Combe 52 Limestone ?
Charlcombe Cornice 10 Sandstone (hard) NW
Goblin Combe 204 Limestone S
Ladye Bay (Clevedon) 109 Limestone W
Merchant Venturers Compost Corner 21 Limestone SW
Portishead Quarry 93 Limestone SE
Snuff Mills Park 214 Sandstone (hard) SE
Winterbourne Down 76 Sandstone (hard) N
Somerset crags # climbs Rocktype Faces
Ashwick Grove 12 Limestone SE
Axe Quarry 17 Limestone NE
Black Rocks Quarry 38 Limestone S
Brean Down 106 Limestone S
Brean Down (Fort Crags) 153 Limestone S
Cheddar Gorge North 401 Limestone S
Cheddar Gorge South 615 Limestone N
Churchill Rocks 34 Limestone S
Croscombe Valley Cliffs 55 Limestone W
Curious Holes Quarry 7 Limestone N
Dinder Wood 74 Limestone SE
Ham Hill Quarry 52 Limestone S
Horrington Hill Quarry 18 Limestone S
Leigh Quarry 31 Limestone ?
Mells 31 Limestone SW
Nancy Camel's Hump. 8 Limestone SW
North Quarry 53 Limestone NE
Rock of Ages (Burrington Combe) 42 Limestone S
Sand Point 260 Limestone N
Sandford Quarry 143 Limestone ?
Split Rock (Milton Hill Quarry) 45 Limestone NW
The Holcombe Quarries 64 Limestone ?
Toll Road Crags 145 Limestone NW
Uphill Quarry 63 Limestone W
Vallis Vale 44 Limestone SW
Westdown Quarry 32 Limestone E
Woodlane Quarry 13 - ?
Writhlington Sports Centre 36 Artificial ?

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