In reply to kristian:
Hi Kristian,
The Stemple wall workings are part of Deep Rake which interestingly you can see the end of in Backdale Quarry. Its quite strange they left that part of the Rake unfilled . You are right that Deep Rake is now mostly filled in and is grazing land.
In the late 80's early 90's we had a look up there and there was a very impressive wall below the track that was at least 50 mtrs to the bottom and had obvious climbing potential. They had used a dragline to extract the Fluorspar (which my Uncle worked on) so the wall was smooth (similar to Deep Rake Stemple Wall) At that time they had not blasted the walls as they have now done in High Rake so the potential for climbing was very good.
Not long after though Laportes started backfilling and that was the end of it. Pretty sure another wall was climbed on with some decent trad routes by a lad from Castleton but they are under the Earth now as well.
I have not had a look down the hole near the farm yet...
I'm in a hole at the moment...
Post edited at 10:56