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[ Print larger map ] – Grid Ref SY 679707 (OS Landranger #194)

Battleship Back Cliff

Dorset, ENGLAND

Climbs 89 – Rocktype Limestone – Altitude 40m a.s.l – Faces W

Crag features
The Back Cliff has some superb long pitches with fingery flints and well-positioned cruxes. The recently developed ‘Workout Wall’ is a great place to pick up finger stamina for those up to the big grades. Also on offer is the Block Slab which has a number of nice, slabby pitches.

New Sector: The Balcony

On the left, northern most of two small outcrops above the path on the southern approach to the Back Cliff. The lower most southerly cliff is “The Balcony”, easily visible from the path, with a flat grassy base hidden behind some brambles. From here a scramble over an earth mound to the left leads to an inset bay with a fine flat wall of good rock capped by an overhang – “The Attic”.

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Guidebooks
Dorset (2012), Portland (2008), Dorset Route Database (2000),
Out of print: Dorset 2005 - Fax19 (2005), Dorset 2000 - Fax11 (2000), Dorset 1994 - Fax05 (1994)

Climbs at this crag

	Climb name	Grade	x

1	Pol Pot Had the Lot	6b	12
2	Sex Cauldron	7b	2
3	Even Better than the Beatles	7b *	12
4	Arc of a Fridge	7b *	9
5	Dreams Burn Down	7a+ **	21
6	Nihil	7b **	37
7	No Man is an Island	6c **	133
8	Always Have the Edge	6c **	73
9	Pump Hitler	7a+ ***	82
10	Buoys will be Buoys	6b+ ***	293
11	Shape Shifter	7c *	7
12	Jurassic Shift	7a **	99
13	The Fun Factory	7b **	22
14	Info Freako	7b+ **	13
15	Trance Mission	7c **	3
16	Rave Mission	7b+ **	3
17	The Racing Line	7b+ ***	22
18	Zinc Oxide Mountain	7b+ ***	77
19	Bending the Rules	7b+	2
20	Lost Army Expedition	6c+ *	14
21	Scapa Flow	6c+ **	50
22	Koenig Class	7a+ *	4
23	Raise the Titanic	6b+ *	93
24	The Price of Silence	6a **	361
25	Wave Dodging	7a	11
26	Sink the Bismarck	6c *	25
27	Big Fish	7a	8
28	Wiggi and Mopoke's Excellent New Hilti	5+	119
29	A Dream of White Porsches	5 *	435
30	The Sound of One Hold Snapping	6b+ *	77
31	Electrically-Injected Shed Head	6b+ *	48
32	Splat the Cat	6c+	10
33	Shallow End of the Gene Pool	6b+ *	10
34	Project 'A'	7a *	8
35	Searing Tunnel of Re-injury	6b	34
36	The Cones of Stress	7a+	3
37	Psychic EMF	7a+ **	32
38	God Told Me to Skin You Alive	6c+ *	12
39	Roadkill on the Information Superhighway	6b	15
40	Error 404	6a+	22
	BATTLESHIP BLOCK SLAB
42	U-143	HVS 5a *	14
43	Coming Unstuck	6a+ *	136
44	Block 1	VD	15
45	Block 2	D	17
46	Block 3	VD	18
47	Braer Rabbit	4	317

	Climb name	Grade	x

48	This is This	4+ *	330
49	Wake Up, Time to Die	6a+ *	187
50	Like a Drowning Man	4 or 5 *	250
51	Hang Onto Your Ego	6b *	116
52	No Smears Here	6a+	97
53	Block 4	S	11
54	Block 5	HS	6
55	She's Going Down	6b+ *	68
56	Listing Badly	6c+ *	54
57	I'm Doing it Anyway	4 *	339
58	Hate the Sin and Love the Sinner	5+	156
	BATTLESHIP BLOCK SLAB - SEAWARD FACE
60	Another Stone on the Pile of Choss	6c+	6
61	Welcome to the Gravity Program	6c	3
62	Small is Beautiful	6b	9
63	She's Dancing Tonight	5	14
64	Tiny Goddess	5	22
	VERANDA
66	Dr. Sole and Mr. Sole	3	123
67	Never Lead a Numb Existence	4	107
68	Phil's Route	4	135
69	Days of Heaven	4+	120
70	Love on the Rocks ;)	5	137
71	Absent Friends, Here's to Them	5+	115
72	Limestone Cowboy	4+	120
73	One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest	5+	100
74	When You Were Little You Dreamed You Were Big	6b+	84
75	Hanging Out with Halo Jones	6a	128
76	I Get High With A Little Help From My Friends	5	97
77	Cat Juggling	4+	80
78	Thin on Top	6a+	15
79	Samphire and Steel	5	16
80	More Soap, Less Shampoo	4+	17
81	Lazy Robs and Frightful Lobs	5+ *	4
	THE BALCONY
83	Unload the Funbags	6b+	13
84	It's all a Bunch of Tree Hugging Hippie Crap	5+	11
85	Jurassic Bark	7a	13
86	High-Flyer	6b	17
87	Lola	5	15
88	Pretty Flamingo	6a+	14
89	A Groovy Kind of Love	6c	16
90	Itchycoo Park	6c+	15
91	Spear of Destiny	5+	23
92	Spear of Broccoli	5+	22
93	Heart of the Sun	6a	19

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Access notes
The Battleship cliffs are easy to reach from a good parking spot. Drive through Weston and after passing the shops, keep right down Wide Street. On the next bend turn right into Reap Lane and park down here, on the left, opposite a track across the fields. There are plans to build a small new parking spot at the end of Reap Lane. Walk carefully down this track with your eyes to the ground - it’s dog turd alley! At the end walk slightly right and take one of two steep paths down the hillside. The cliffs are on your left starting with the Keyboard Wall Area.

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