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)	301	Limestone	W
Avon Gorge (Sea Walls Area)	469	Limestone	SW
Avon Gorge (Suspension Bridge Area)	230	Limestone	W
Portishead Quarry	97	Limestone	SE

Cornwall crags	# climbs	Rocktype	Faces
Bass Point	89	Mica schist	W
Bosigran	173	Granite	W
Bosigran Ridge Area	30	Granite	W
Carn Barra	155	Granite	SW
Carn Gowla	178	Greenstone	W
Carn Lês Boel Area	59	Granite	S
Cheesewring Quarry	201	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	14	Pillow lava	W
Fox Promontory	46	Granite	SW
Great Zawn	50	Granite	W
Gull Rock - Marsland	53	Culm	W
Gurnard's Head	39	Greenstone	W
Kenidjack Cliffs	47	Killas slate	SE
Lands End	183	Granite	W
Lower Sharpnose Point	103	Culm	?
Oldwalls' Point	9	Culm	N
Pen Olver	80	Amphibiolite & S	SW
Pentire Point	149	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	83	Granite	?
Sennen	181	Granite	W
St. Loy Cliff	75	Granite	S
Tater-du	119	Greenstone	S
Tintagel Head	25	Volcanic tuff	W
Trewavas	148	Granite	S
Vessacks West	28	Granite	SW

Devon crags	# climbs	Rocktype	Faces
Vicarage Cliff	66	Culm	W
Zawn Duel and Carn Gloose Area	27	Killas slate	NW
Zawn Kellys Area	28	Granite	W
Zennor Cliff	44	Killas slate	W

Anstey's Cove	260	Limestone	S
Baggy Point	189	Culm	SW
Bench Tor	49	Granite	all
Berry Head - Coastguard Cliffs	186	Limestone	S
Berry Head - The Old Redoubt	132	Limestone	E
Blackchurch	45	Culm	NW
Chudleigh Rocks - South Face	223	Limestone	S
Daddyhole Main Cliff	57	Limestone	E
Dyers Lookout	52	Culm	W
Haytor	77	Granite	all
Hound Tor	325	Granite	all
Long Quarry Point	103	Limestone	E
Meadfoot Quarry	26	Limestone	SE
Screda Point	42	Culm	S
Sheeps Tor	43	Granite	all
Smoothlands	54	Culm	NW
Spekes Mill Mouth and Brownspear Point	52	Culm	N
The Dewerstone	167	Granite	S
Torbryan Quarry	49	Limestone	W

Dorset crags	# climbs	Rocktype	Faces
Blackers Hole	84	Limestone	S
Blacknor North	132	Limestone	W
Blacknor South	83	Limestone	W
Boulder Ruckle	291	Limestone	S
Coastguard North	60	Limestone	W
Fisherman's Ledge	137	Limestone	S
Subluminal and Lighthouse Cliff	136	Limestone	S
The Cuttings	179	Limestone	SE
The Promenade	150	Limestone	S
Wallsend South	136	Limestone	W

Somerset crags	# climbs	Rocktype	Faces
Brean Down	110	Limestone	S
Split Rock (Milton Hill Quarry)	50	Limestone	NW
Uphill Quarry	76	Limestone	W

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