West Country Climbs

Author Mark Glaister
Published Rockfax (2010)
ISBN 978-1-873341-37-7

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West Country Climbs is a major Rockfax guide to one of the UK’s most celebrated, sunny and diverse climbing regions. The book is fashioned in Rockfax’s award-winning layout and design, and copiously illustrated with action photographs of the climbs and cliffs that reflect the quality and variety of climbing experiences to be had on offer in the UK’s most popular holiday destination - the West Country.

This is a selected route and buttress guidebook which covers the best 900 routes from the crags listed below.

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Crags covered by this Guide

Avon crags	# climbs	Rocktype	Faces
Avon Gorge (Main Area)	260	Limestone	W
Avon Gorge (Sea Walls Area)	416	Limestone	SW
Avon Gorge (Suspension Bridge Area)	193	Limestone	W
Portishead Quarry	78	Limestone	SE

Cornwall crags	# climbs	Rocktype	Faces
Bass Point	85	Mica schist	W
Bosigran	168	Granite	W
Bosigran Ridge Area	28	Granite	W
Carn Barra	152	Granite	SW
Carn Gowla	167	Greenstone	W
Carn Lês Boel Area	54	Granite	S
Chair Ladder	169	Granite	S
Cheesewring Quarry	189	Granite	S
Coastguard Cliffs	50	Mica schist	SE
Compass Point (Bude)	67	Culm	S
Cribba Head	38	Granite	SW
Devil's Jump	5	Granite	S
Doyden Point	13	Pillow lava	W
Fox Promontory	45	Granite	SW
Great Zawn	50	Granite	W
Gull Rock - Marsland	52	Culm	W
Gurnard's Head	39	Greenstone	W
Kenidjack Cliffs	47	Killas slate	SE
Lands End	183	Granite	W
Lower Sharpnose Point	102	Culm	?
Oldwalls' Point	9	Culm	N
Pen Olver	80	Amphibiolite & S	SW
Pentire Point	143	Pillow lava	N
Pordenack Point Area	83	Granite	SW
Porthgwarra Buttress and Hella Point	39	Granite	S
Robin's Rocks	19	Greenstone	NW
Roche Rock	76	Granite	?
Sennen	180	Granite	W
St. Loy Cliff	75	Granite	S
Tater-du	114	Greenstone	S
Tintagel Head	25	Volcanic tuff	W
Trewavas	140	Granite	S

Devon crags	# climbs	Rocktype	Faces
Vessacks West	28	Granite	SW
Vicarage Cliff	63	Culm	W
Zawn Duel and Carn Gloose Area	27	Killas slate	NW
Zawn Kellys Area	28	Granite	W
Zennor Cliff	40	Killas slate	W

Anstey's Cove	154	Limestone	S
Baggy Point	186	Culm	SW
Bench Tor	41	Granite	all
Berry Head - Coastguard Cliffs	180	Limestone	S
Berry Head - The Old Redoubt	132	Limestone	E
Blackchurch	44	Culm	NW
Chudleigh Rocks - South Face	190	Limestone	S
Daddyhole Main Cliff	54	Limestone	E
Dyers Lookout	51	Culm	W
Haytor	77	Granite	all
Hound Tor	220	Granite	all
Long Quarry Point	100	Limestone	E
Meadfoot Quarry	26	Limestone	SE
Screda Point	42	Culm	S
Sheeps Tor	43	Granite	all
Smoothlands	45	Culm	NW
Spekes Mill Mouth and Brownspear Point	52	Culm	N
The Dewerstone	163	Granite	S
Torbryan Quarry	46	Limestone	W

Dorset crags	# climbs	Rocktype	Faces
Blackers Hole	82	Limestone	S
Blacknor North	131	Limestone	W
Blacknor South	81	Limestone	W
Boulder Ruckle	291	Limestone	S
Coastguard North	60	Limestone	W
Fisherman's Ledge	134	Limestone	S
Subluminal and Lighthouse Cliff	135	Limestone	S
The Cuttings	176	Limestone	SE
The Promenade	149	Limestone	S
Wallsend South	136	Limestone	W

Somerset crags	# climbs	Rocktype	Faces
Brean Down	98	Limestone	S
Split Rock (Milton Hill Quarry)	38	Limestone	NW
Uphill Quarry	59	Limestone	W

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