North of England Rock Climbs

Author Stewart Wilson
Published Cordee (1992)
ISBN 1-871890-41-1

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Review

A definitive guide covering 78 crags in Cumbria (excluding the Lakes), parts of Northumberland, the Pennine Border region, Tyne & Wear, County Durham, the Cleveland Hills and northern Yorkshire.


Crags covered by this Guide
County Durham crags # climbs Rocktype Faces
Catcastle Quarry 16 Grit (quarried) S
Cotherstone Crag 28 Sandstone (hard) SW
Hownsgill Quarry 88 Sandstone (soft) SW
Cumbria crags # climbs Rocktype Faces
Armathwaite 161 Sandstone (soft) SW
Bishop Hill Quarry 2 Limestone W
Caldbeck Moor Quarry 44 Limestone E
Cowraik Quarry 91 Sandstone (soft) S
Crag Gate (Greystoke) 25 Limestone ?
Cumrew Crag 34 Limestone SW
Gelt Quarries 1 Sandstone (soft) E
Great Corby Quarry 12 Sandstone (soft) SW
Headend quarry 41 Limestone S
Kings Meaburn, Jackdaw Scar 61 Limestone W
Lodges Quarry 39 Sandstone (hard) NW
Scratchmere Scar 65 Sandstone (hard) SW
Spadeadam Crag 21 Sandstone (hard) S
Summerground Crag 0 Limestone SW
The Gelt Boulder 16 Quartzite NE
The Hoff 28 Conglomerate ?
The Otterstones 13 Limestone N
Windmore End 229 Limestone SW
North Yorkshire crags # climbs Rocktype Faces
Applegarth Scar 40 Limestone S
Downholme Quarry 39 Limestone W
Ellerkin Scar 10 Limestone SW
Hagg Wood 66 Limestone NW
High Spring Quarry 17 Limestone W
Hudswell crag 9 Limestone ?
Kersey Green Scar 18 Limestone NE
Kisdon Force, Swaledale 15 Limestone S
Orgate Scar 44 Limestone SW
Round Howe 2 Limestone E
Northumberland crags # climbs Rocktype Faces
Lambley Viaduct Quarries 0 Dolerite S
Queens Crag 109 Sandstone (hard) NW
The Tipalt 14 Sandstone (hard) N
Vindolanda Quarry 27 Sandstone (hard) W
Tyne & Wear crags # climbs Rocktype Faces
Lonnen Quarry (aka Cleadon Quarry) 51 Limestone SW
The Cove 17 Limestone E

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