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Harpur Hill Quarry

Derbyshire, ENGLAND

Climbs 263 – Rocktype Limestone – Altitude ? – Faces NE

Crag features
An impressive collection of quarried walls high above Buxton in an exposed position (if its windy its cold, even on a sunny day!). Hence dries quickly. Rock generally good, excellent in places, with routes up to 33m long. Recent developments have left a number of worthwhile lower grade sport routes, many of them with a 'trad' feel about them due to the type of climbing and run-out ("proper climbing, not just crimping"). Best routes are Mousehunt (6c), Bag of Bones (6b), The Prophecy (6c+), Coral Seas (6a+), Ratline (7b) and Cairn (7a+).

Weather forecast

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Forecast for this crag, or UK Weather forecast
More: mwis: Peak District & Yorkshire Dales – Met Office: Peak District

Guidebooks
Peak Limestone (2012), Peak District : Climbing (2008), From Horseshoe to Harpur Hill (2004), Northern Limestone Route Database (2001), www.sportsclimbs.co.uk (1995), Peak Limestone - Stoney (1987),
Out of print: Northern Limestone (2004)

Climbs at this crag

	Climb name	Grade	x

	UPPER TIER : DARK SIDE
2	In My Darkest Hour	5	5
3	Endsville	6a	7
4	Centreville	6a	5
5	People Will Talk	5	46
6	The Parting of the Lips	5	35
7	Ear to Ear	6a+	16
8	Uncreased	VS 4c	2
9	Hairline	VS 4c	2
10	The Mouth Waters	6b+ *	8
11	George Stark Calling	6a+ *	35
12	Stark Disbelief	6c+	8
13	The Dark Half	6b *	23
14	Graveyard Blues	6a+	3
15	In Stark Contrast	6b+ *	3
16	Over the Deadline	6b	2
17	Automatic Writing	6a	2
18	Fools Stuffing	6a+	1
19	Pillar of Wisdom	6b	1
20	The Invasion of the Creepazoid	6c+	1
21	Later That Night	6b	3
22	The Coming of the Sparrows	5+	41
23	Stop the Pigeon	6b+	2
24	Ken Dodd's Dad's Dogs Dead	HVS 5b	2
25	Gathering Darkness	6c+	2
26	A Trip on the Dark Side	6a+ *	36
27	Feel My Presence	6b+	10
28	Wild Olives	6b *	15
29	Gorignak	6a+	21
30	Omega 13	6a *	33
31	Dr Lazarus	6a+	10
32	Zebedee	VS 4b	1
33	Balance of Actions	HVS 5a	1
34	Greensleeves	VS 4b	2
35	Wily Coyote	E2 5c	1
36	Road Runner	E1 5b	1
	UPPER TIER : NIDGE'S WALL
38	What's the paint	5	4
39	Pity The Grafitti	5	1
40	Set Fred Free	6a	2
41	Wilky's Revenge	5+ *	1
	UPPER TIER : PAPACY SECTOR
43	Angleterre	5	1
44	This England	7a+	2
45	Pleasant Valley Sunday	E1 5b	3
46	Upthrutch	VS 4c *	1
47	Gritarete	7a *	2
48	Snake Eyes	E3 5c *	1
49	Strangled at Birth	6b *	10
50	Sincerely Yours	6b *	3
51	I'm in the Sin Bin	5+ *	10
52	The Seven Deadly Sins	HVS 5a **	34
53	Coral Seas	6a **	282
54	Avarice Allsorts	7a *	23
55	Lust	VS 4c	2
56	Freedom of Choice	VS 4c	1
57	Rocky Variations	6b **	108
58	Apollo Creed	6b **	92
59	The Seven Deadly Virtues	E1 5b **	24
60	Luddite Thought Police	E3 6a *	1
61	Penal Servitude	E2 5b *	5
62	Full Frontal	6c+ *	16
63	El Camino Real	E1 5b **	20
64	Power of Soul	7b *	10
65	Dementia Normale	6a *	70
66	The Last Straw	6b	10
67	Figure of Law	6c+ *	3
68	I Am The Law	6b+	1
	UPPER TIER : EXCLUSION SECTOR
70	Danny Cool	5	2
71	Cool Danny	6b+	2
72	Screaming Wheels	6b *	8
73	Swain's World	6b *	1
74	No Man's Land	6b+	4
75	Exclusion Zone	6b+ *	8
76	The Iron Curtain	6b	11
77	Mousehunt	6c	3
78	Slowly, Slowly Catch A Monkey	6a+ *	5
79	Thang Thing	7a	2
80	Thing Thang	7a	2
81	Slab de Lune	6a	3
82	Stack of Stones	6a+ *	22
83	Bag of Bones	6a+ *	52
84	Plate of Scones	6b+ *	1
85	Sara Laughs	6b+	6
86	Tenth Heaven	6b *	1
87	Calci-Mauve	6b+ *	25
88	Glas Double	7a *	1
89	Over the Hill	6c **	20
90	Nostalgia	E4 6a **	1
91	The Omen	6b **	2
92	Yogi Bare	7a *	7
	UPPER TIER : PROPHECY SECTOR
94	Four Telling Tales	6c *	19
95	The Talisman	6c+	5
96	Bleingassen	6c *	1
97	The Oracle	7b	2
98	The Prophecy	7a *	11
99	Supernatural	6a	15
100	The Indian Cottage	7a	1
101	What a Load of Roti	6a *	2
102	Aloo Gobi	6c	4
103	Pappadum Groove	6a	5
104	Quartz Initial	6b+	6
105	Unnamed	6a	3
106	Viagra Falls	6c+	3
107	Different Seasons	6a+ *	26
108	Apt Pupil	6c *	5
109	In the Gravy	6a+ *	32
110	From Cradle to Grave	6c *	5
111	Calcite Claws	6c *	3
112	So Veneer	6b	1
113	The End	6a	1
	UPPER TIER : TWILIGHT SECTOR
115	Inconsiderate Blinking	6a+	1
116	Hey Diddle Diddle	E1 5b *
117	Unilateral Thinking	6c	1
118	Pell Mell	E3 5c	1
119	The Light	7a *	1
120	Take Flight	7a	1
121	Buxton Goes French	6b+	2
122	Outer Limits	6b+ *	6
123	Twilight Zone	6a+	3
	LOWER TIER : THE RACETRACK
125	Skid Pan Alley	5	6
126	Pole Position	6a+	6
127	Checkered Flag	5+	7
128	Peter Perfect	5	5
129	Penelope Pit Stop	5	7
130	The Whacky Races	5	5
131	The Silver Stone	6a *	5
132	Long Playa	6b *	14
133	Dodgem Central	6b *	9
134	Life's a Drag	6a *	7
135	TT Special	5	5
136	Brands Hatched	6a	3
137	Trick Cyclist	6b+ *	2
138	Speed Freak	6b *	2
139	Screaming Target	E3 6a **
140	Boneman Connection	E2 5c

	Climb name	Grade	x

141	Fist to Fist is Done	VS 4c *	2
142	Mikey Dread	HVS 4c
143	Scientist	E1 5b
144	Speed Trails	7a *	2
145	High Impact	6a+ *	7
	LOWER TIER : POOL WALL
147	In Isolation	6a	2
148	Grow Fins	E2 5b *
	LOWER TIER : LONG WALL
150	Sleeping Sickness	6a *	4
151	My Bed's Downstairs	6a	3
152	Sleep On It	6b *	5
153	Easy On The Gas	5	10
154	The Pillar Walk	5+	11
155	Addit and Scarper	6a+ *	3
156	You've Addit	6a *	6
157	Addit Enough	5+	10
158	Long walk off a short pier	6a+	2
159	Tooooo long	6a *	5
160	Longevity	6a *	5
161	Long Time No See	6a *	3
162	The Long Walk	6b *	3
163	So Long, Farewell	6a	4
164	Belonging	5+	13
165	Doh	6b *	4
	LOWER TIER : ANARCHY SECTOR
167	Thankyou Grooves	5 *	2
168	Overbored	5	64
169	Gatting the Groove	6a	65
170	Mine Anarchy	6a	101
171	Only Ken's Anarchy Will Do	6b	65
172	Always Break the Rules	5+	114
173	Snap Decision	5+	85
	LOWER TIER : TOTTY SECTOR
175	The Candyman	6a+	60
176	Flossy's Slab	6a+ *	97
177	Toy Story	6a	51
178	Suck on This	6a+	38
179	Jelly Beans	6a+	7
180	Smartie People are Happy People	6a	70
181	Candy Store	6a	45
182	Tempting Children	6c+	7
183	Would you like a Sweety	6c *	37
184	Bolts 'R' Us	6a+	32
185	Sing for Your Dinner	6b+	6
186	Do Little	6a	3
187	Totti for England	4	13
188	A Bit of Totty	6a	57
189	Top Totty	5	114
190	Jelly Tots	5	96
191	Tiny Tots	6a	89
192	Teeny Tots	6a	58
	LOWER TIER : SUMO SECTOR
194	The Jap's Eyes are on You	6b+	6
195	Outside Tokyo	6b	21
196	Nagasaki Grooves II	6b	17
197	Sumo	7a *	16
198	A Nip in the Air	6b	7
199	Geisha Grooves	6a	29
200	Saweno Gancho	6c *	6
201	Setting Sons	6a	25
202	The Golden Goose	6a	33
203	Hong Kong Fewy	6a+	42
204	The Rising Sun	5	55
205	Kamikaze Clone	6a+	30
206	Riding Shogun	5	15
207	Fuji Fantastic	6a	1
208	Picture This	6a+	1
	LOWER TIER : CAIRN SECTOR
210	Argy Bargy	5	5
211	The Misfits	6a	33
212	Hissing Sid	6b	41
213	Slippery Bill	HVS 5a	3
214	Ratline	7b **	19
215	Cairn	7a+ ***	151
216	Stealth	7a *	8
217	Great White	6a	76
218	Orca	6a+	6
219	The Naked Spur	5	110
220	Assault and Battery	6b+	4
221	Trial and Error	7a	7
222	Senile Delinquents	5+ *	100
223	Cabin Fever	6b	27
224	Unknown	S	3
225	Fred Flintstone	VS 4b	9
226	Barney Rubble	VS 4c	5
227	Yabba Dabba Doo!	VS 4b	3
228	Breakfast at Safeways	6b	54
229	Jam Butty Mines Crack	VS 4c *	17
230	99p Special	6b	43
231	Food for Sport	6a	32
232	Full set	6a+	15
	THE PLAYGROUND
234	Sons of the Desert	VS 4c
235	Duelling Trousers	HVS 5a
236	Edge Play	5 *	4
237	Play Doh	6a	3
238	Helter Skelterer	6a+	1
239	Groovy Player	6a+	1
240	Movie Player	6a	2
241	Pachucho Cadaver (Movie Player)	6a *	3
242	Hard Player	6b+	1
243	I'm not a player	4	3
244	E for Friction	E1 5b
245	Terror of the Towers	7a	2
246	Whose is Casey ?	6a	6
247	That Ball, Love	VS 4b
248	Clackers Sprained my Knackers	S
249	Leben Tod	F6a+ *	5
250	Flog the Lume	6a	8
251	Did Romeo Play	4	7
252	A merchant played in venice	4	4
	DOG CANUTE
254	Atomic Tommy Cooper	E2 5b
255	Clay Man	VS 4c
256	Dog Canute	E1 5b **	1
257	Yardcore	E3 5c *	1
	THE SANCTUARY
259	By Caesarean	5	61
260	New Arrivals	6a	50
261	Expecting	5	117
262	Induction Program	5	79
263	Premature	6a	22
264	Safe Haven	5	64
265	The Hollow Man	5	74
266	Christian Salvage Man	6a *	95
267	Which Depp-Artment	6a	44
268	Ichabod	5+	55
269	Sleepy Hollow	6a *	75
270	Bonny Helena	5	6
271	Gone for a Tim Burton	5	80
272	The Height Below	5	75
273	The Sanctuarian	6c	19
274	For Haven's Sake	6b	35
275	Downtown	6b *	44
276	What Lies Beneath	6b	17
277	haven or hell	6a	14
	COLLEGE BUTTRESS
279	Gooncrack	6b+	3
280	Short Sport	6b	1

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Access notes
From Harpur Hill (south of Buxton), head west (Grin Low Road), taking the first turning to the left up the hill. Continue until the road levels out in an industrial complex. Park near the old disused railway line on the left. Folow the line forking right to enter wasteland below the quarry. The upper tier is approached from the right.
Read more... Regional Access notes are available from the BMC.

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USER FEEDBACK

If you have defaulted on your mortgage, been declared bankrupt or you have been advised to give your shoe laces to your mates, then this is the place for you.......... If not then go somewhere else. Seriously. Any where else but here. The water is toxic. The routes are loose and the bolts are something out of popular mechanics 1902 edition.
sputnik

- 30/Aug/12

Good area for a climb, we parked in the village and walked to the Quarry. The climbs are good although the ones we climbed did have some loose rock so Helmets are a must. As far as the bolts go they are in pretty good shape but we found the first bolts to be quite high! So much so on some of the climbs a fall from the bolt at chest height would have resulted in 2-3 metre fall. Otherwise A very good venue if you don't expect to much.
magicmartin - 30/May/12

Visited here on Saturday 26th. Would highly recommend that people follow the warnings on parking in the guide. The parking area was very very busy (although hardly any climbers were visible on the crag) and they were clamping and ticketing anything and everything outside of the designated areas.
mattwyles1 - 28/May/12

You can't park by the disused railway line, there are clamping warnings everywhere. We found a place further up the road past the karting track on the left.
Paul Hy - 19/Apr/12

A contender for the most dismal major sport venue in the country. A post-modern celebration of low expectation consumer demand and cruddy rock. Enjoy!
Bulls Crack - 02/Oct/11

Went there today for a look and a traverse around the rocks. Most of the quarry is bolted, creating endless opps for routes. Helmet may be a good idea on some routes as there is a lot of loose rubble at the top of some rocks. Dries very quickly, and extremely windy.
usherwoodm00 - 12/Nov/08

A lot of the routes on the Prophecy buttress have high first bolts and steep sloping ground below. Take extra care as a slip can result in a cartwheel down onto sharp rocks. Often worthwhile carrying a set of wires.
Chris the Tall - 07/Jun/04

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