Crag features

Torbryan Quarry (Orley Quarry) is a great little crag with a small set of exquisite sport climbs on its gently overhanging wall, and numerous linkups to keep you busy for years. The climbing is well bolted and gives sustained, fingery pitches on flowstone sheets and pockets with the two central lines of Mayday and Thread Flintstone being classics of their grade. The setting is typically rural Devon, narrow lanes, high hedges and a quaint local village blessed with a good pub.


Tucked away in a sheltered dell, it can be a useful retreat in light rain or cool weather once the sun comes around in the afternoon. It can get hot in warm weather, although the base is shaded by trees. Seeps after prolonged spells of wet weather.


Stars have been ommitted for linkups (apart from where they appear in guidebooks), however they almost all contain 2 or 3 star climbing of their parent routes.