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Definitive guide to the Central Belt and Southern
Scotland.
Covers the best (and the worst!) crags near Edinburgh and Glasgow, plus the Southern Uplands,
Berwickshire and Dumfrishire sea cliffs.
Notable Crags :
Auchinstary
Ratho
Fast Castle Seacliffs
Dumbarton Rock
Has a graded list, is easy to uses with clear diagrams. Lack of index is made up for with clear
sectioning within the guide.
Essential for those long, summer Scottish evenings
to enable escape from the city to the crags...
Ayrshire crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
---|---|---|---|
Craigs of Kyle | 10 | - | SW |
Glen Afton | 20 | Granite | N |
Mauchline Gorge | 34 | Sandstone (soft) | S |
Berwickshire crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
Fastcastle Head | 9 | Greywacke | E |
Midden Crag (Fastcastle) | 17 | Greywacke | E |
The Brander (Fastcastle) | 50 | Greywacke | N |
Dumfries and Galloway crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
Burrow Head | 26 | Greywacke | S |
Clawbelly Hill Slabs | 2 | Granite | E |
Clifton Crag | 88 | Granite | SW |
Clints of Dromore | 26 | Granite | ? |
Craigencallie | 20 | Granite | SE |
Crammag Head | 81 | Diorites | W |
Garheugh Port | 80 | Greywacke | S |
Gaw Glen crag | 5 | Basalt | SW |
Laggantalluch | 50 | Granite | W |
Meikle Ross | 114 | Greywacke | SE |
Portobello | 59 | Greywacke | W |
Thirlstane | 86 | Sandstone (hard) | SE |
East Dunbartonshire crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
Craigmore | 190 | Basalt | NE |
Dunglas | 44 | Basalt | W |
Slackdhu | 20 | Dolerite | SW |
The Whangie | 85 | Basalt | W |
East Lothian crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
Craigy Hill | 25 | - | SE |
Dunbar Crag | 8 | Sandstone (soft) | N |
North Berwick Law | 108 | Trachyte | S |
Traprain Law | 90 | Trachyte | S |
Yellow Craigs | 5 | - | W |
East Renfrewshire crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
Court Knowe Quarry | 27 | Dolerite | SW |
Neilston Quarry | 43 | Dolerite | W |
Fife crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
---|---|---|---|
Benarty Hill | 13 | Dolerite | all |
Craiglug | 30 | Dolerite | SW |
Dalachy Quarry | 10 | Sandstone (hard) | ? |
Limekilns | 63 | Limestone | all |
North Queensferry Quarry | 15 | Dolerite | S |
Rosyth Quarry | 69 | Dolerite | S |
Glasgow crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
Clochoderick Stone | 28 | Basalt | all |
Lanarkshire crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
Carlops | 6 | Andesite | W |
Midlothian crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
Blackford Quarry | 23 | Dolerite | SW |
Corbie's Craig | 15 | Dolerite | S |
Ratho Quarry | 90 | Dolerite | all |
Roslin Glen | 86 | Sandstone (soft) | NE |
Salisbury Crags | 135 | Dolerite | SW |
North Ayrshire crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
The Quadrocks | 36 | Basalt | W |
Perthshire crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
Ben A'an | 28 | Schist | all |
Craig Rossie | 3 | Diorites | E |
South Lanarkshire crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
Loudoun Hill | 71 | Trachyte | S |
Stirlingshire crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
Auchinstarry Quarry | 143 | Dolerite | S |
Ben Ledi Boulders | 77 | Schist | all |
Cambusbarron Quarry (aka Thorntons Quarry) | 75 | Dolerite | S |
Crystal Crag | 8 | Mica schist | W |
Dollar Quarry | 39 | Dolerite | S |
North Third | 21 | Dolerite | SE |
Stronachlachlar | 36 | Mica schist | S |
Trossachs Boulders | 58 | Mica schist | all |
Wolfcrag Quarry | 110 | Sandstone (hard) | S |
West Dumbarton crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
Bowling | 9 | Basalt | S |
Dumbuck | 24 | Basalt | W |
West Lothian crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
Dalmahoy Hill | 26 | Dolerite | NW |