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Harrisons Rocks

East Sussex, ENGLAND

Climbs 381 – Rocktype Sandstone (soft) – Altitude 61m a.s.l – Faces SW

Crag features
Popular with groups and becoming well worn on the easier routes. Please use soft soled shoes and clean your feet on a carpet sample before climbing. There are large bolts above most climbs and a 3m length of static rope should be adequate to ensure your belay karabiner hangs over the edge of the crag to avoid damage to the rock from moving ropes. Car park, toilet and an "Honesty box" to pay for upkeep of site at exit of car park. Often crowded on warm weekends. Please help to avoid further damage to the crag. If you witness poor belaying, please advise on the correct method ;-) Ropes running over the edge of the rock will destroy the crag. So will dogging routes that are too hard for you and climbing with dirty feet.

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Guidebooks
Southern Sandstone (2008),
Out of print: Southern Sandstone (1989)

Climbs at this crag

	Climb name	Grade	x

	NORTH BOULDER
2	Groovy Graeme	font 5+	124
3	letterbox	font 5	92
4	Sunset Wall	font 5+	73
5	Layaway Cure	f6A	49
6	torque wrench	f6B 6a+ **	69
7	Finger Flow	f7A 6c	7
8	original route	V2 5b	33
9	West Face Route	font 5+ 5c **	79
10	Strong Struggle	f6C+ 6b	4
11	Papillion	f6C 6a **	17
12	Reve	f6B	11
13	back breaker	f6C 6a **	9
14	Full on Fling	f6A+ 6a	4
15	The Sheriff	V5 6b ***	37
16	Silver Star	f6A 6a	32
17	Trigger	font 5 5b **	81
18	Ok Corral	none 3a *	109
19	Ragtime	f6A 5c	34
20	Ziggy	f6A 6a	15
21	Red River	f6A+ 6a	17
22	Piano	f6A 6a	5
23	Alligator snatch	f6B 6b	24
24	south island surprise	V0	4
25	Serendipity	none 5c *	4
26	Demons of Death	none 6a	9
27	Special Invitation	none 6b
28	The Violent Sprat	none 6b
29	North boulder girdle traverse	f6B+ 6b **	3
	START OF MAIN CRAG
31	The Ramp	none 2b	33
32	DJ face the music	V2 5b	6
33	Central Route	none 3a	30
34	Usurer	none 3a	12
35	Trees are green	V0+ 4a	6
36	Photinia	none 6a	1
37	Teddy Bear's Picnic	none 6a	1
38	New Hat	none 6a	1
39	Central Groove	none 5b *	10
40	Dynamo	none 5c *	5
41	Usurper	none 5b *	12
	KUKRI WALL AREA
43	Penknife	none 5a	2
44	Breadknife Buttress	none 4b	8
45	Kukri Wall	none 3b	24
46	Kukri Wall Direct	none 4c	9
	SINGLET AREA
48	Laraletme	none 5b	2
49	Ringlet	none 5b	44
50	Twiglet	none 6b	7
51	Eyelet	none 4b *	128
52	Singlet	none 5b	15
53	Dave	none 3a	56
54	Deep Thought	none 6a	7
55	Don	none 2a	69
56	Toad	none 5c	15
57	Elastic	none 5c	14
58	Tight Chimney	none 3a	48
59	Tight Chimney Slab	none 4b	28
60	Gilbert's Gamble	none 4b	45
61	Ejector	none 4a *	109
62	Sand Piper	none 6a	14
63	Shytte	none 6b	1
64	Trip of the psychedelic tortoise	none 6a	5
65	Carrera	none 5b *	73
66	Open Chimney	none 2b *	126
67	Cottonsocks Traverse	none 4b *	72
68	Root Route 3	none 5b	62
69	Root Route 2.75	none 4c	8
70	Root Route 2.5	none 5b	45
71	Root Route 2	none 6a	40
72	Root Route 1 1/2	none 5a	66
73	Root Route 1	none 4a	87
74	Blackeye Wall	none 5c	17
75	Slanting Crack	none 5c *	15
76	Counterfeit	none 5c *	30
77	Right-hand Crack	none 4a *	44
	SLIDING CORNER AREA
79	Smear Campaign	none 5c	3
80	Corridor of Uncertainty	none 6b
81	Sticky Wicket	none 5c	2
82	rotten stump wall	none 5c	13
83	rotten stump arete	none 6a	3
84	Sliding Corner	none 5b *	34
85	Awkward Crack	none 6a	2
86	Easy Chimney	none 1b	11
87	Fingernail Crack	none 1b	51
88	Dinosaurus	none 5c	3
89	Smiliodon	none 5c	5
90	Tomcat / Simon's Wall	none 5c	23
91	Panther's Wall	none 6a *	13
92	snout	none 5b	36
93	Snout Crack	none 3b *	65
94	Mantelpiece	none 5c	4
95	Beech Corner	none 3a	9
	HANGOVER AREA
97	Blue Peter	none 5c *	35
98	Blue Murder	none 6b *	9
99	Slab (a.k.a. Diabollickal Crack)	none 5a	138
100	Slab Direct	none 5b **	215
101	Slab Crack	none 5b *	30
102	Lager Frenzy	none 6c *	3
103	Lager Shandy	none 6b *	2
104	Celestial's Reach	none 6a *	3
105	Hangover II	none 6a	12
106	Hangover III	none 6a ***	71
107	Luncheon Shelf	none 5c *	27
108	Long Layback	none 5a ***	398
109	The Flakes	none 6a ***	90
110	Flakes Direct	none 6a *	17
111	Coronation Crack	none 6a **	25
112	Supernatural	none 6b	1
113	Vampire's Ledge	none 5c **	4
114	The Limpet	none 6b **	7
	BOW WINDOW AREA
116	Dark Chimney	none 2a ***	219
117	Dark Chimney Buttress	none 5a *	80
118	Nut Tree	none 6b *	10
119	Icarus	none 6a	5
120	Spout Buttress	none 5c	65
121	Spout Crossing	none 5b *	105
122	Windowside Spout	none 3b *	129
123	Casement Wall	none 5b *	69
124	Pelmet	none 5b *	173
125	Bow Window	none 4a **	376
126	Bow Window Direct	none 5c *	27
127	Finger Stain	none 5c *	63
128	Sashcord Crack	none 4a *	281
129	Big crack	none 4a *	51
130	Neighbours	none 6b	3
131	Way Down	none 1a	40
	ARCHER'S WALL AREA
133	Quarterdome	none 5b ***	35
134	yosemite big wall climb	none 5b *	17
135	Giant's Staircase	none 2a	103
136	Lost Arrow Wall	none 4b *	29
137	Arrow Crack	none 2a	70
138	Gardener's Question Time	none 6a	10
139	Longbow Chimney	none 2a	36
140	Grist	none 6a	2
141	Quiver	none 5c *	54
142	That Man's an Animal	none 6b	1
143	Toxophilite	none 5c *	37
144	Little Sagittarius	none 5c *	37
145	Sagittarius	none 5a **	88
146	Archers Wall Direct	none 5c *	20
147	Archer's Wall	none 5c *	31
148	Stupid Effort	none 5b *	68
149	Long Crack	none 4b **	126
150	Riverdance	none 6a
151	What Crisis?	none 6c **	6
152	Slim Finger Crack	none 5c ***	100
153	Vulture Crack	none 5c *	22
154	Missing Link	none 6a **	3
155	The Sting	none 6a	5
156	Marcus's Arete	none 6a	1
	GIANT'S EAR AREA
158	Horizontal Birch	none 3a	14
159	Jumping Jack Flash	none 6b
160	Downfall	none 4b	5
161	Pig tail slab	none 2a *	3
162	Left Edge	none 2b *	53
163	Original Route	none 2a	55
164	Big Toe Wall	none 3b	23
165	Greasy Crack	none 4a	46
166	Directors	none 5c	2
167	Giant's Ear	none 5a *	46
168	Junend Arete	none 3c	11
169	Happy Days	none 3b	12
170	Snake's Crawl	none 1a	8
171	Little Cave	none 2a	7
172	Signalbox Arete	none 5b *	12
173	Mountain Railway	none 4b	5
174	Saint's Wall	none 5c	5
175	A Killling Joke	f7A 6c	2
176	Left Circle	none 6a	14
177	Right Circle	none 4a **	143
178	good friday	none 5c	30
179	Small Chimney	none 2b	114
180	small wall	none 5b	42
181	Reserved /Goats Head Soup	none 5b	10
182	Goats Do Roam	none 6a ***	9
183	St. Gotthard	none 4b **	33
184	Monch	font 3+ 3c	2
185	Hard furka	font 4+ 4c	2
186	Grimy Grimsel	font 4+ 5a	3
187	Eigahhhhhh	font 5+ 5b	5
188	Yound Frau	f6A 5c **	3
189	Hachoo Horn	font 5 5b	2
190	Verbier	font 3 3b	3
191	Simplon Route	none 4a *	14
192	The Sandpipe	none 4b *	12
193	The Sewer	none 4c *	11
194	Monkey's Necklace	none 5b ***	9
195	Powder Monkey	none 6b *	1

	Climb name	Grade	x

196	Orangutang	none 5c **	18
197	Oliver James	none 6b **	1
198	Monkey's Bow	none 6a *
199	Moonlight Arete	none 4c ***	203
200	Starlight	none 4c **	140
201	Matt's Fingertip	none 5a	1
202	Tempestivity	none 6c *
203	Araldite Wall	none 5c
	WELLINGTON'S BLOCK AREA
205	Forester's Wall Direct	none 6a *	7
206	Indian Summer	none 6a *	4
207	Forester's Wall	none 5b **	73
208	Bonanza	none 5c *	35
209	Sossblitz	none 6a ***	44
210	The Republic	none 6b **	12
211	The Niblick	none 5b ***	313
212	Niblick Direct Start	none 5c ***	11
213	Pincenib	none 6a *	14
214	Pinch Arete	none 5b ***	23
215	Wellington's chimney	none 3c	14
216	Wellington's Nose	none 3b **	78
217	Lady Jane	none 5c	3
218	Sabre Crack	none 4b	19
219	Kicks	none 6b	1
220	Wellington Boot	none 6b	1
221	Belts and Braces	none 5b *	43
222	Jetsam	none 3b **	16
223	Flotsam	none 2b *	13
	SQUAT TOWER AREA
225	Wildcat Wall	none 5c	25
226	Woodside Blossom	none 6a	11
227	Deadwood Cack	none 4c *	228
228	Toeing the Line	none 4a *	51
229	Tame Variant	none 2b	148
230	Tame Diedre	none 2a *	42
231	Stag	none 5c	16
232	The Vice	none 4c **	258
233	Toevice	none 6a *	43
234	Handvice	none 6a	19
235	Victoria	none 5c	6
236	The Clamp	none 5c	2
237	Rhapsody Inside a Satsuma	none 5b	3
238	Corridor Route	none 4a	13
239	Birch Nose	none 5b	17
	REACH FOR THE SKY
241	Fat and Middle-aged	none 6a
242	Knight's Gambit	none 5b	2
243	Knight's Move	none 5c	2
244	Skin Job	none 6b *	2
245	Reach for the Sky	none 6a
	SQUARE BOULDER
247	Square Boulder Arete	f6A 5c *	2
248	The Stomach Traverse	VB 4b **	2
249	Square Boulder Layaways	f6A+ 5c	2
	SET SQUARE ARETE AREA
251	Set Square Arete	none 5b *	60
252	Sandbag	none 5c
253	Sunshine Crack	none 4c **	144
254	The Knam	none 6a *	10
255	The Mank	none 6a *	24
256	Dr. Pepper	none 6b **	1
257	Piecemeal Wall	none 5c **	39
258	Karen's Kondom	none 6b	8
259	The Chimney	none 2b **	81
260	Chimney and Traverse	none 3a	6
261	Eric	none 6a	8
262	Reverse Traverse	none 5c	33
263	Two-Toed Sloth	none 5a *	185
264	Tab Chimney	none 2a	7
265	Soft Rock-er	none 5c	4
266	Arustu	none 5c
267	Agent Orange	none 5a
	ISOLATED BUTTRESS
269	North-West Corner	none 5c **	86
270	Wooly Bear	none 6c **	30
271	West Wall	none 5c ***	118
272	South-West Corner	none 6a **	34
273	Apple Crumble	none 5b **	10
274	Isolated Buttress Climb	none 4c ***	321
275	Isolated Buttress Climb Direct Start	none 5b	50
276	Edward's Wall	none 5c	46
277	Edwards's Effort	none 6a *	70
278	Diversion	none 5c *	98
279	Birchden Wall	none 5b ***	243
280	Halibut Giblets	none 5c *	9
281	Birchden Corner	none 5c ***	175
282	Crowborough Corner	none 5c **	137
283	Mr Spaceman	none 6a **	18
284	Wailing Wall	none 5c **	158
285	Wailing Eliminate	none 6b	5
286	Boysen's Arete	none 6a *	62
287	Boulder Bridge Route	none 2b ***	35
288	High Traverse	none 5c **
289	Girdle Traverse	none 5a *	6
290	Powder Finger	none 6b	1
291	Green Fingers	none 5c *	14
292	Krypton Factor	none 6b
293	Bloody Fingers	none 6a	1
294	Bloody Staircase	none 6b
295	Plumb Line	none 5c	1
	JAGGER AREA
297	Jagger	none 5b	8
298	Ear-ring	none 5c	1
299	Big Cave Route 2	none 2a *	19
300	Big Cave Route 1	none 2b **	46
301	Smith's Traverse	none 2a **	21
302	Baldrick's Boulderdash	none 5b	10
	SPIDER WALL AREA
304	Forget- Me -Not	none 6a	26
305	Second Chance	none 6a *	18
306	Last Chance	none 5c *	31
307	Spider Wall	none 5b **	147
308	Cave Wall	none 5c *	48
309	Crack and Cave	none 4a **	201
310	Grant's Wall	none 6a	6
311	Tiptoe Through the Lichen	none 6b
312	Grant's Groove	none 6a *	24
313	Grant's Crack	none 5a **	126
314	Thingy	none 4b *	11
315	Thingamywobs	none 5b	16
316	Whatsaname	none 5b	6
	GARDEN SLAB AREA
318	Purple Nasty	none 6b
319	Little Cousin	none 5a	1
320	Rum and Ribena	none 4b	2
321	Rum and Coke	M	1
322	Bovver Boot	none 5c	1
323	Cunning Stunts	none 5b	2
324	Cabbage Patch Blues	none 5c	1
325	Back Passage	none 3a	5
326	Tiptoe Thru the Tulips	none 5b	1
327	Biceps Buttress	none 5c	6
328	Finger Popper	none 6b
329	Crucifix	none 5c *	2
330	Scout Chimney Left	none 2a	8
331	L.H.T.	none 5c	1
332	Scout Chimney Right	none 1a	11
333	Garden Slab Left	none 5a *	11
334	Garden Slab Right	none 5a *	5
335	Muscle Crack	none 6a *	5
336	Hector's House	none 6b
337	Corner	none 6a	1
338	Magic Wall	none 6b
339	Philippa	none 6a ***	19
340	Shodan	none 5c *	36
	THE BEACH END
342	Half-Crown Corner	none 5b *	58
343	Wander at Leisure	none 5a *	87
344	Birch Tree Crack	none 4a *	133
345	Birch Tree Variations	none 6a	23
346	Birch Tree Wall	none 4c	120
347	Tree Root	none 1a	15
348	Stalactite	f6A 5c *	6
349	Skid Marx	f6B+ 6a *	2
350	The Scoop	none 5c *	106
351	Scoop Arete	none 6a *	9
352	Easy Cleft Left	none 2a	53
353	Wooly Jumper	f6C 6b	3
354	Pull Over	none 5c	51
355	Easy Cleft Right	none 3a *	110
356	Senarra	none 5a *	215
357	Hell Wall	none 5a **	341
358	Charon's Chimney	none 3a *	89
359	Baskerville	none 6a *	48
360	Far Left	none 5c **	189
361	My Dear Watson	none 5c	35
362	Elementary	none 5c **	213
363	Dennis the menace	none 6c	4
364	Desperate Dan	none 6a **	55
365	Unclimbed Wall Direct Finish	none 6a *	22
366	Unclimbed Wall	none 5b ***	386
367	Wizzards Progress	none 5c	14
368	Unclimbed Wall Direct Start/Finish (Wizzard's Shuffle)	none 6a *	69
369	Unclimbed Wall - Direct Start	none 5c ***	68
370	jingo wobbly	none 6b	16
371	Right Unclimbed	none 6a *	73
372	Isometric Chimney	none 1a	32
373	Sunray	none 5a	24
374	Eliminate	none 6a	5
375	Solstice	none 5c **	61
376	Bulging Wall/Zig Nose	none 5c *	156
377	Zig-Zag Variations	none 5b	25
378	Zig-Zag Wall	none 5a ***	312
379	Todd's Traverse (Boundary Wall Traverse)	none 5a *	5
380	Rift	none 5c *	81
381	Smart	none 5c	9
382	Witches Broomstick	none 5c	27
383	Max	none 6a	5
384	Neutral	none 6a	3
385	Stubble	none 6b	1
386	Meat Cleaver	none 6a *	2
	LOCATION UNCLEAR...
388	Wanderfall	font 3+ 4b **	4
389	Don Juander	font 4+ 5b *	1

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Access notes
No leading - the rock is far too soft and will be irrepairably damaged when you fall off. Soloing or toproping only. Take a second rope to extend belays at the top to avoid damage to the rock and your rope.

Take the road S from Groombridge, past the old station on the left. Take the R fork; 200m further turn R again down a narrow lane signposted "Birchden Wood and Harrisons Rocks". From the car park, various footpaths lead in a southerly direction to the crag - about 10 minutes walk. Camping available on the Julie Tullis Memorial campsite adjacent to the car park, currently £2 per person per night.
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USER FEEDBACK

Quality weekend on Sandstone again. Stayed at a new campsite-Green Hedges Farm, campfire weekends website. Absolutely made the weekend, the owner David is a legend and will have the fire started for you on your return from climbing each day so you can relax and cook some food :-)
finter22

- 07/Aug/12

Lovely place and great climbing. Was a shame to have come back to the campsite to find our tent smashed to pieces and our belongings rifled through. Had to cut a 3 day trip down to just that day. Will definately climb there again, but will certainly not be camping.
Tumblefluff - 30/Jun/12

If camping wacht out for squirrels, they will break into your tent to get food. top tip don't leave food laying around.
jay923 - 02/Jul/08

Harrisons RULES, the camping,people, climbing and senery is perfect.Begginers or experts all who go fall in love with the place. And it would'nt be the same without Frank and his guitar
zac skinz - 05/Jul/06

Harrisons is a great crag, lots of fun and easy to get too.. but don't get so hung up on it that you forget the other sandstone sites in the area that are less crowded and also great fun. Great spot for early summer impromptu climbing, go during the week if you can.
Rob - 08/Jun/06

Would one of you good climbers tell me if the camp-site is open year round? Was planning to drive over from Devon this Friday for a scamper but do not want to turn up and get turfed off! Cheers - Steve
Steve - 15/Mar/06

I like Franks guitar playing, it wouldnt be the same without a night round the campfire entertained by him. The campsite is excellent value, good climbing if you start very early during summer weekends.
Big Steve - 22/Dec/05

Careful where you pitch your tent. We pitched ours near a teepee and had to endure a loud performance for hours on end by someone called Frank. Apparently he couldn't hear our cries of disapproval, and it went until after 1am. My advice is, if you hear someone tune their guitar near your tent, tell them to be quiet immediately before you lose your sanity. Or bring ear plugs. Would otherwise have been a very nice campsite.
alex - 29/Mar/05

no chalk please it does look ugly, and you can climb the flakes without chalk.I did it and im not one of these crack climber.
brixton climber - 08/Mar/05

i learn it all from there, my first climb every year since 1990 is at harrisson rock on new years day. i cant undestand why they go to fontainebleau, when they have south sandstone at home.When you climb at harrisson you can climb anywhere. i just love it.
brixton climber - 08/Mar/05

harrisons rules! climbs are excellent and wheather as wonderful.. All in all a great day out to a beautiful place. Highly recomend it for beginners to intermediates who enjoy a shorter pitch or bouldering.
David Adams - 04/Oct/02

Re Tony Harris\' comment about the Campground. Sandstone Climbing Club (now in its 51st year) set up a sixteen-pitch climbers campground as a memorial to Juli Tullis, formerly a club member, who died on K2 in August 1986 after reaching the summit with Kurt Diemburger. The campground is wardened by Chris Tullis (phone 01892 863659), Julies\' son. The site is adjacent to the car park at Harrisons Rocks, where there are toilet faclities (no showers). The fee is �2 per person per night paid by the \'Honesty System\' (see the campground noticeboard). Booking is not normally necessary. Turn up, pitch and pay up! The single pitches are in secluded clearings among birch and fern undergrowth. Please use the site carefully and respectfully, to enable us to maintain the facility. Enjoy yourselves!
Doug Stone - 21/Jul/02

There is no mention of the Julie Tullis Camp facility in the information provided
TONY HARRIS - 18/Jul/02

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